Announcing Init Records’ catalog, photo of Building Better Bombs (P.O.S.)

I am excited to be offering you the Init Records’ vinyl catalog. Every week, I am reminded exactly how small this world really is. You see, I met Steve, Init’s mastermind, back on a tour with the Fairlanes in 1999. If I remember correctly, Steve set up a show for us on that tour in the small town of Waseca, Minnesota. That show is very memorable to me because up until that point on tour, I had not received a single mosquito bite and that night, I was bit probably 100 times. The other memorable thing about the night was this really annoying kid who kept begging for free Merch. I got so fed up at one point, I found a broom from the club, slapped a Fairlanes’ sticker on it, and I told the kid that we weren’t planning on parting with the broom so early on this tour, but that we would be honored if he would take our highly coveted tour broom. He excitedly grabbed it and at the end of the night, he asked the entire band to sign the broom. I actually have a photo somewhere with the kid posing next to the broom. Good times. Oh and I must mention the after-show hang out session where this guy, Bill, downed a shitload of Everclear, and this girl was dared to lick a disgusting Toilet Seat. To make a long story short, I met Steve through this show, and at the time, he was running a small punk rock distro (back in the 90’s, people had distros and would set up at shows. It was a kind of an underground distribution network). We traded discs throughout the years and we kind of lost touch. Steve recently got in touch about having Vinyl Collective carry his records. In the years that I have not been in touch, Steve has amassed quite a catalog including wax for Since By Man, Tornavalanche, Hewhocorrupts, Ten Grand and most recently he put out the vinyl for Building Better Bombs, the punk rock alter ego of P.O.S. Speaking of BBB, here is a photo of the vinyl we just got in and below is a list of our available Init releases. Steve is one of the good guys and it is really cool to see people like Steve still involved with independent music.

BACK WHEN “Swords Against the Father” 7″
BACK WHEN / THE SETUP split 7″
BUILDING BETTER BOMBS “Freak Out Squares” LP Purple Vinyl
EYES OF VEROTIKA / RICKYFITS split 7″
HEWHOCORRUPTS “The Discographer” dbl LP
IN THE FACE OF WAR “Summer 2004 Demo” 7″
MAHKATO “Fighting the Urge to Start Fires” 7″
PHOENIX BODIES / RAEIN split 7″ blue vinyl
PHOENIX BODIES / TYRANNY OF SHAW split 7″
SINCE BY MAN “Pictures from the Hotel Apocalypse” LP
SINKING STEPS RISING EYES “The 2002 EP” 7″ tour press
TEN GRAND / METH AND GOATS split 7″
THE ABANDONED HEARTS CLUB “Initial Confessions” 7″ clear vinyl
THE ASSAILANT “Nurse” 7″ picture disc
TORA TORA TORRANCE / SWING BY SEVEN split 7″
TORNAVALANCHE “No Money No Problems” LP