Recommended Reissues

  • Antiheroes: 1984-1989 7"
    Regular price
    $15.00
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    $15.00
  • Inepsy: Rock ’N’ Roll Babylon 12"
    Regular price
    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Inepsy: See You in Hell Vinyl 7"
    Regular price
    $10.00
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    $10.00
  • Various: Hardcore Unlawful Assembly 12"
    Vendor
    MCR Company
    Regular price
    $32.00
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    $32.00
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain: Upside Down 7"
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    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • Anti-Cimex: S/T (aka Criminal Trap) 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Zouo: A Roar Agitating Violent Age 12"
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    $22.00
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    $22.00
  • Bratmobile: Girls Get Busy 12"
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    $26.00
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    $26.00

New and Recommended Punk & Hardcore Ragers!

  • Inferno Personale: La Scelta é Tua 12"
    Regular price
    $22.00
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    $22.00
  • Speed Plans: D.U.I. 7"
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    $10.00
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    $10.00
  • Nukies: Paralysis of Fear 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Malignant Order: This Is Mankind? Demo cassette
    Regular price
    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • Lost Legion: Behind The Concrete Veil 12"
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    $25.00
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    $25.00
  • Suffocating Madness: Unrelenting Forced Psychosis 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Deadform: Entrenched in Hell 12"
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    $22.00
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    $22.00
  • Various: Vending Machine: Live at ABC cassette
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    $15.00
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    $15.00

latest used items

  • The Format: Live at the Mayan Theatre: Encore 12"
    Vendor
    used
    Regular price
    $18.00
    Sale price
    $18.00
  • Bed Wettin' Boys: Rot 12"
    Vendor
    used
    Regular price
    $8.00
    Sale price
    $8.00
  • Ganser: Just Look At That Sky 12"
    Vendor
    used
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    $8.00
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    $8.00
  • The Atlas Moth: An Ache For The Distance 12"
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    used
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    $30.00
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    $30.00
  • Adulkt Life: There Is No Desire 12"
    Vendor
    used
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    $18.00
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    $18.00

more of this month's best sellers

Tiikeri: Tee Se Itse EP 7"
Regular price
$10.00
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$10.00
Life / Destruct: To Stop The Conflict 12"
Regular price
$23.00
Sale price
$23.00
Cosey Mueller: Soft Core 12"
Regular price
$22.00
Sale price
$22.00
Alvilda: C'est Déjà L'heure 12" (PRE-ORDER)
Regular price
$20.00
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$20.00

recently restocked

  • Komintern Sect: Dernier Combat 12"
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    $20.00
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    $20.00
  • Despise You: Westside Horizons 12”
    Regular price
    $18.00
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    $18.00
  • Necrot: Lifeless Birth 12"
    Regular price
    $22.00
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    $22.00
  • SOH: Life On Edge 7"
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    $7.00
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    $7.00
  • Dead Boys: Young, Loud and Snotty 12"
    Regular price
    $25.00
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    $25.00

straw man army's earthworks available for pre-order

NYC duo Straw Man Army return with their third LP, “Earthworks”, to complete a trilogy of records begun with 2020’s “Age of Exile,” and 2022’s “SOS”. Whereas “Age of Exile” dealt with the haunted landscapes of colonial history in the Americas, and “SOS” gave voice to a crisis of the present moment, like a prayer in bewildering times, 2024’s “Earthworks” signals the band’s attempt to close this trilogy by turning their gaze towards the future, where paradox, complexity and contradiction spiral in ascendance to an agonizing pitch. While continuing to develop their own style of anarcho-punk, “Earthworks” finds the band pulling once again from jazz and ambient influences, expanded Krautrock rhythms, and post-rock experiments, with a stronger emphasis on melodic vocals and varied song structures than on previous offerings. Taking cues from the wistful anti-war harmonies of The Byrds and the angry melodies of Zounds, tracks like “Turn the Wheel” and “Second Nature” mark new territory for a group whose messages and methods of experimentation have merged to form a singular sound equally at home on All the Madmen Records or in the spiritual legacy of ESP Disk. “Earthworks” is an album that holds and subverts many contradictions—juggling the weight of melancholy, grief, guilt, impunity, and the yearning for clarity against the backdrop of boiling wrath; the wrath of nature, the occupied, the dispossessed, and of the mind against itself. To quote the track “Spiral” — “Is this all that’s left for us these days? / Apathy and rage?”— Straw Man Army offers this record as a companion to our frustration, our sickness, our despair, and a lifeline for our fugitive attention in the struggle for peace.

Straw Man Army: Earth Works 12" (PRE-ORDER)
Regular price
$22.00
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$22.00

偏執症者 (Paranoid): MMXXII 5×7" box set up for pre-order

Sorry State exclusive pressing on white vinyl, limited to 100 copies.

This box compiles the singles released digitally only during 2022, now making them available in physical format for the first time. Also included, exclusively for this box, is an additional fifth single entitled "Nightmare", three new and unreleased tracks recorded during the same sessions, not to be sold separately. Including a guest appearance by the one and only Tadzio of Golpe.

Box set contains:

- Kill the Light, 7"
- Vanished Resilience, 7"
- Possessed, 7"
- The Great Reset, 7"
- Nightmare, 7" (exclusively for the box set)
- Fold out poster, 36x54cm
- Insert
- Postcard
- Sticker

偏執症者 (Paranoid): MMXXII 5×7" box set (PRE-ORDER)
Regular price
$85.00
Sale price
$85.00

zorn's endless funeral 12" out now on sorry state

Philadelphia metal-punks Zorn return with the new 5-track EP Endless Funeral, their first new material since 2023’s head-turning debut LP on Sorry State. Endless Funeral ups the ante on Zorn’s previous releases in nearly every way, with more brutality, more musicality, and more theatricality. Zorn’s unique blend of metal and punk continues to pull from a wide swath of influences, whether it’s the brutal death metal riff on the opening track, “Warpath,” the epic mosh part in “G.O.R.N.,” the charging d-beat of “Drunken Demon” and “Dance of Madness,” and even the neoclassical shred guitar of the title track, a standout moment from recent live sets finally immortalized on vinyl. Atop the instrumental melee, vocals howl like an army of banshees let loose from hellish containment, their idiosyncratic rhythms skittering wildly across the instruments’ lock-step pummeling. Summoning both the chaos and the power of Zorn’s legendary live sets, Endless Funeral will leave you bruised, bloody, spent, and loving every second of it.

Zorn: Endless Funeral 12"
Regular price
$18.00
Sale price
$18.00

new arrivals

  • Antiheroes: 1984-1989 7"
    Regular price
    $15.00
    Sale price
    $15.00
  • Inferno Personale: La Scelta é Tua 12"
    Regular price
    $22.00
    Sale price
    $22.00
  • Sabrina Carpenter: Fruitcake 12"
    Regular price
    $35.00
    Sale price
    $35.00
  • Screaming Trees: Strange Things Happening 12"
    Regular price
    $35.00
    Sale price
    $35.00
  • Zouo: A Roar Agitating Violent Age 12"
    Regular price
    $22.00
    Sale price
    $22.00
  • Haggus: No End in Suffering 7"
    Regular price
    $10.00
    Sale price
    $10.00
  • Haggus: 3 Cadavers, 2 Corpses and a Carcass 7"
    Regular price
    $10.00
    Sale price
    $10.00
  • Anti-Cimex: S/T (aka Criminal Trap) 12"
    Regular price
    $25.00
    Sale price
    $25.00
  • Inepsy: See You in Hell Vinyl 7"
    Regular price
    $10.00
    Sale price
    $10.00
  • Inepsy: Rock ’N’ Roll Babylon 12"
    Regular price
    $25.00
    Sale price
    $25.00

new on la vida es un mus

Second Death: S/T 12" (PRE-ORDER)
Regular price
$25.00
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$25.00
Rudimentary Peni: Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric 12"
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$29.00
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$29.00
Chain Cult: Harm Reduction 12"
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$25.00
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$25.00
Festa Del Perdono: Società Mentale 7"
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$10.00
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$10.00

new on sorry state

Lasso: Parte 12"
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$20.00
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$20.00
Golpe: Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati. 7"
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$9.00
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$9.00
Zorn: S/T 12"
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$18.00
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$18.00
Personal Damage: Violent Ritual 7"
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$8.00
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$8.00

Recommended books, zines, and other reads

  • Artcore #43 zine + Zany Guys 7"
    Vendor
    Artcore
    Regular price
    Sold out
    Sale price
    $20.00
  • Roger Miret: Agnostic Front - With Time: The Roger Miret Archives book (PRE-ORDER)
    Regular price
    $69.00
    Sale price
    $69.00
  • Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk's Guide to Loving Jazz book
    Regular price
    $18.00
    Sale price
    $18.00
  • Crude Sense: Issue #1 zine
    Vendor
    zines
    Regular price
    $15.00
    Sale price
    $15.00

Sorry state newsletter: November 18, 2024

This week we have a classic Record of the Week from Rudimentary Peni, much-anticipated new releases from Life and Destruct, Tiikeri, and Cosey Muller, Staff Picks, Featured Releases, and lots more.

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