The early 2000's were a weird time for me with hardcore. While I was still into well known hardcore bands like Bane and Over My Dead Body, for the most part I just remember being really excited over stuff from Anti-Flag and Good Riddance more. There were a lot of bands from that time that I didn't check out until a couple of years later simply because I was so disconnected from what was going on, and some bands that I'm still not really too familiar with.
History lesson. A little over 12 years ago, back in 2013, Marcus made a post over on his blog that included a copy of the Frostbite 7 inch with the Floorpunch rip off cover. I admitted in the comments that I'd never heard Frostbite before, and I told by Marcus and Nico that I needed to fix that oversight as soon as possible. I quickly rushed over to Soulseek and downloaded the songs... I listened to them once and then proceeded to let them gather digital dust on my hard drive.
Near the end of last year, I found myself digging into that early 2000 shit, and spinning stuff like the last Reach The Sky EP and Cut The Shit, and I saw that Frostbite EP sitting there in my iTunes. I gave it a listen and it clicked with me immediately. It was so good that I rushed to Discogs to pick up the record. I saw the Floorpunch rip off cover with a good price and I didn't hesitate to add it to my cart.
I don't know what my problem was back in 2013 because this 7 inch rips. Straight forward and raw hardcore... I really dropped the ball on this one. "Fuck that and fuck you and fuck everything."
I was loving this record so much that I felt the need to pick up another cover variation. I saw a seller had this Robby Redcheeks birthday bash edition with the Philly Liberty Bell cover and I decided to pick this one up too.
As I was obsessing over this 7 inch, I felt like I couldn't make a post about the record without at least picking up a copy with the regular sleeve, so I grabbed this very light baby blue colored vinyl pressing.
There are a lot of different versions of this record out there, and grabbing these three were a nice start. I'm not sure how far I want to chase these, although there a few more versions that I'd really like to pick up at some point. I was set to pick up the Sex Pistols rip off sleeve but then the seller flaked and changed his mind, wanting to keep it for himself... so that was too bad... but yeah, I have the collector itch right now, and want more of these.
