I've found myself obsessed with a few 90's hardcore bands this year. Bands that I didn't think that I really liked all that much, but suddenly I've found myself unable to get enough. The problem that I've found with some of these bands is that their records seem more difficult to find than I had expected. Because of course, since I wasn't listening to or collecting records for these bands, no one else was, right? I should be able to scoop these records fairly easily. Wrong. I want this shit now, and Discogs and eBay aren't delivering. With Harvest, Marcus even asked a friend of his if he wanted to part with any of his records, but it seemed like that was one band that he still wanted to hold onto. Fuck.
As I was scouring the internet, I found a label called Hardcore Matinee that was doing a special run of Harvest shirts. It was a preorder where they were only doing the one run to cover orders and then it was done... and I kept playing with the idea of buying one. I went back to the store every couple of days to wring my hands over if I should buy one, and then I noticed that they had found a few copies of the Living With A God Complex reissue that they did back in 2018, and they put them up in the store... so I took it as a sign and bought the record and the shirt.
I try to stay away from reissues, but this 21st anniversary edition is so nice... and since I haven't been able to track down an original copy, this one will do for now. That's okay though, because this edition is really nice. With the special sleeve, the thick booklet with lyrics and photos, and all the special touches like the stamped labels, I'm happy to own this.
Number 268 of 300.
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