Jon and I have continued to be buddies for years, so it wasn’t a huge crazy issue, but stuff like this could get real ugly real quick, haha. At first I was kinda pissed just because of the principle of the way the whole thing had gone down, but I was stoked on the YOT test too, so I said that’d be fine. Instead, he offered to keep the same cash I’d already sent him and he’d send me a Youth Of Today – Break Down The Walls test pressing (the accepted version of the Green rejected copy I already owned). ![]() So he comes back to me with his tail between his legs, and not only tells me that he can’t sell me my 2nd copy of the In My Eyes 7″ test, but that it’s actually a Filler 7″ test (which I’ve always wanted to own!), and I can’t buy that either! In Jon’s defense, he felt really bad, and didn’t just insist on refunding my money. Jon buys it anyway, because Filler is worth even more and he’s getting an even better deal than he expected! So why is this a problem for me? Well, Jon is so stoked on the score because he’s always wanted to own a Filler test. So Jon goes over there, and much to his surprise, it’s a Minor Threat – Filler 7″ test pressing, not the In My Eyes 7″. Obviously the Minor Threat – In My Eyes 7″ test was one of these records he was planning to buy from the guy, and then flip it to me for some pretty decent cash real quick. Jon had agreed to buy certain records from the guy, but hadn’t gone over there to exchange the cash for records yet. Jon’s situation was that he’d found this old punk dude in the UK who was dumping a bunch of his stash for cheap. (Whattup Jon! Sorry I’m ratting you out here. ….A big no-no in the record collecting world. Well, Jon didn’t tell me this, but he actually didn’t have the record in his hands yet. So I told Jon I’d buy the MT – IME 7″ test pressing, and I sent him the cash. But then I remembered I knew 2 different people who really wanted my MT – IME 7″ test, and if I could pick this 2nd copy up from Jon, I could probably get one of these other guys to trade me a couple records that I’d wanted from either of them for a long time. ![]() The thing was, I already owned a MT – IME 7″ test, and I didn’t really need to own a 2nd copy. It’s kind of funny that I ended up owning this 7″ from him, because there is this crazy story surrounding how he got this 7″ in the first place – in a round about way, it was kind of originally supposed to be mine! So here’s the deal: Jon emailed me, asking me if I wanted to buy a Minor Threat – In My Eyes 7″ (not Filler). I got that Filler 7″ test pressing from Jon Gallagher, a dude in the UK that is big into Revelation Records collecting. You’ll see the familiar yellow United Record Pressing labels on the test pressing on the upper left. Minor Threat’s first 7″, the “s/t”, or “Filler” 7″. ![]() Now we’re getting into the classics of classics. Minor Threat is the best and most important hardcore band of all time.
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