Desperate Measures Record Release

There was a time when I thought that I wanted to collect every pressing for every Youngblood release. The excitment for that chase has cooled considerably over the years. There are, however, still some cool records that I'm excited to pick up when the mood strikes me, and when I was recently grabbing a few records from a Discogs seller, I couldn't resist adding one more to the cart.

The record release pressing for the Desperate Measures album, Never Enough Time, has always caught my eye with that great looking cover. A gorilla hanging loose and crowd surfing? Hell yes. Give it to me.

This album is a lot of fun and I probably listen to it more now than when it came out. 300 pressed for this bad boy, so it is easy to pick up for a decent price.

Never Enough Time

We all know my story about trying to make up for lost time. After my "Ebullition years", I stopped buying vinyl. By 1996, I bought very few records, as I preferred buying CDs over vinyl. Then, much like the time I spent as a kid buying cassettes instead of vinyl, the seven year span from '98 to 2005 was a dark time in my music history. If it wasn't on CD, I didn't buy it.

When I started buying vinyl again, my Youngblood record collection consisted of one copy of the Rancor's Flip The Switch. That was all. I had about 19 or 20 of their past releases to catch up on.

I enjoy the hunt for those past Youngblood records. I'm in no rush to complete the collection, and don't always actively search out those missing pieces, but when I do acquire one, it is always a thrill.

When I saw that Sean Youngblood had uncovered a couple lost copies of the Desperate Measures LP, and had added them to the webstore, I figured that it was time to finally own my first vinyl copy of this record.

275 pressed on blue vinyl.