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Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released on September 19, 1986. The project was originally handled by Combat Records, resulting in the first mix of the album being co-produced by Randy Burns. Capitol Records then bought the rights to the album and hired another producer, Paul Lani, to mix it himself. The album's front cover, featuring the band's mascot Vic Rattlehead, was created by Ed Repka. The recording of the album was difficult for the band because of the ongoing drug issues the members had at the time. This was the last Megadeth album to feature drummer Gar Samuelson and guitarist Chris Poland, who were fired shortly after the album's promotional tour. The title track, noted for it's politically conscious lyrics, was released as the album's lead single. Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? is regarded as a thrash metal classic and as an album that gave prominence to extreme metal. It has been featured in several publications' best album lists, including Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and Martin Popoff's Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. The album has been reissued several times over the years. In 2004, the album was remixed and remastered by Megadeth front man Dave Mustaine, with extensive liner notes detailing the album's background. In 2011, the three different versions were reissued as part of the album's 25th anniversary celebration. All of them, with the exception of the 2004 mixes, feature new remastering.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Wake Up Dead 3:37
• 2 The Conjuring 5:00
• 3 Peace Sells 4:05
• 4 Devils Island 5:02
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Good Mourning / Black Friday 6:39
• 2 Bad Omen 4:03
• 3 I Ain't Superstitious 2:42
• 4 My Last Words 4:44

2019 marks the 30th anniversary of The Cult's seminal album SONIC TEMPLE. On September 13th, Beggars Arkive will reissue the album. Now cut onto two pieces of black vinyl, the audio is improved and contains 16 tracks total, which comprise the original album plus 6 B-sides. In addition to the reissue, a box set and 5-CD set are also being released. Originally released in 1989, Sonic Temple proved to be a pivotal moment for both band and the wider rock scene. Produced by the legendary Bob Rock, Sonic Temple had four chart-topping singles; "Fire Woman", "Edie (Ciao Baby)", "Sun King" and "Sweet Soul Sister". In a recent interview about the album, Ian Astbury explained how the band brought together hard rock and indie rock to create the unique, game-changing sounds on Sonic Temple. "We wanted to retain our core DNA as we went deeper into psych and hard rock influences. It was a complete immersion for me into art, film, music, poetry and literature, weaving those influences into what was to become Sonic Temple. The band was becoming more popular. We were in uncharted waters. Most of the bands we had come up with had split up or fallen off. We were accelerating. There was no real time to breathe. We were forming new allegiances and breaking the glass ceiling of 'the indie outsider.'" The album catapulted The Cult into superstar status and remains their most commercially successful release. It has sold over 1.5 million copies in the US alone, and was declared platinum in 1990. It made it to #10 on the Billboard charts, and the above mentioned songs are all rock-radio staples to this day. The Cult continues to record and tour and they have released six albums since Sonic Temple, the most recent being Hidden City in 2016. They've been spending 2019 celebrating this album by performing all over the world on a tour they've billed as A Sonic Temple, paying homage to the album.

Tracks

1. Sun King
2. Fire Woman
3. American Horse
4. Edie (Ciao Baby)
5. Sweet Soul Sister
6. Soul Asylum
7. New York City
8. Automatic Blues

1. Soldier Blue
2. Wake Up Time For Freedom
3. Medicine Train (From the Edie (Ciao Baby) single)
4. The River (From the Sweet Soul Sister single)
5. Bleeding Heart Graffiti (from the Edie (Ciao Baby) CD EP)
6. Messin' Up The Blues (from the Fire Woman single) 
7. Fire Woman (NYC Rock Mix) (from the Fire Woman CD EP)
8. Edie (Ciao Baby) (Acoustic) (From The Heart Of Soul CD single)

First New Album from Original Line-Up Since 1985's Ain't Love Grand!

On the 40th Anniversary of the landmark, Los Angeles, and 35 years since the original line-up have released an album – X, one of the greatest punk rock bands in music history, delivers Alphabetland! It finds Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake embodying the same spirit they did when they began in 1977. "When your heart is broken you think every song is about that. These songs were written in the last 18 months and it blows my mind how timely they are," says Doe.

Tracks

1. Alphabetland
2. Free
3. Water & Wine
4. Strange Life
5. I Gotta Fever
6. Delta 88 Nightmare
7. Star Chambered
8. Angel On The Road
9. Cyrano de Berger's Back
10. Goodbye Year, Goodbye
11. All The Time In The World

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1981, now remastered and cut at revelatory Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios from vinyl specific original tape transfers designed to get the very best possible sound from the format. This album features the singles 'Start Me Up', 'Waiting On A Friend' and 'Hang Fire'.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Start Me Up
• 2 Hang Fire
• 3 Slave
• 4 Little T&A
• 5 Black Limousine
• 6 Neighbours
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Worried About You
• 2 Tops
• 3 Heaven
• 4 No Use in Crying
• 5 Waiting on a Friend

Foo Fighters Greatest Hits on 2x Vinyl LP! 

With 15 years, 6 platinum-plus albums and as many Grammys under their collective belt, the Foo Fighters now mark off yet another milestone in their ascension to quintessential American rock royalty, an eagerly awaited Greatest Hits package. Foo Fighters Greatest Hits will feature two brand new tracks; "Wheels" which made its live debut at President Obama and the USO's July 4 barbeque at the White House honoring military heroes, and "Word Forward," both recorded especially for this collection at the band's own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig. The new tracks not only hold their own alongside individual Grammy winners "The Pretender," "All My Life" and "Learn To Fly" and perennial Foo favorites "Best Of You," "Times Like These," "My Hero, "Everlong" and more, but they perfectly round out an overview of the Foo Fighters' illustrious output to date and hint at what's yet to come.

Foo Fighters Greatest Hits Track Listing

1.  All My Life
2.  Best Of You
3.  Everlong
4.  The Pretender
5.  My Hero
6.  Learn To Fly
7.  Times Like These
8.  Monkeywrench
9.  Big Me
10. Breakout
11. Long Road To Ruin
12. This is a Call
13. Skin and Bones
14. Wheels
15. Word Forward
16. Everlong (acoustic) 

Twenty One Pilots shook the world with the release of their 2015 LP Blurryface, an album that would go on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide and earn the band their first ever Grammy Award as they shattered longstanding chart records, and captivated audiences worldwide on sold-out arena runs and at international festivals. Now three years later, the duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have returned to write the next chapter of their story with Trench, the band's highly anticipated new studio album. Trench finds Twenty One Pilots fearlessly reimagining the possibilities of their music through the same candid expression and genuine identity that helped to cement their place as one of the largest bands in the world. The album is introduced by the dub-inspired "Jumpsuit" and reggae rap cut "Nico And The Niners."

LP1

1. Jumpsuit
2. Levitate
3. Morph
4. My Blood
5. Chlorine
6. Smithereens
7. Neon Gravestones

LP2

1. The Hype
2. Nico And The Niners
3. Cut My Lip
4. Bandito
5. Pet Cheetah
6. Legend
7. Leave The City

Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Among the English language's premier phrase-turners with music relevant to any age, the late great John Prine delivered songs that are both literate and personal. The skilled and compassionate storyteller enjoyed widespread critical acclaim in the wake of his groundbreaking eponymous debut and continued to write and perform songs that became central to our American musical heritage for nearly five decades. Dedicated to his mother Verna Prine, the intimate and playful John Prine Live was largely recorded during a three-day stint at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, California and released in 1988 on the singer/songwriter's own label Oh Boy Records. As he explained to David Fricke in 1993: "We didn't have another artist to put out. The idea was to have me and my guitar, telling stories and doing songs - and buying me some time until I could get into the studio again."

Tracks

1. Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard
2. Six O'Clock News
3. The Oldest Baby in the World
4. Angel from Montgomery
5. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
6. Blue Umbrella
7. Fish and Whistle
8. Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
9. Living in the Future
10. Illegal Smile
11. Mexican Home
12. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
13. The Accident (Things Could Be Worse)
14. Sam Stone
15. Souvenirs
16. Aw Heck
17. Donald and Lydia
18. That's the Way That the World Goes Round
19. Hello in There

Quentin Tarantino's all-time classic Oscar nominated 1994 film Pulp Fiction features an equally as impressive soundtrack that includes famous dialogue from the movie by the likes of John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis along with iconic musical selections from none other than Chuck Berry, Maria McKee, Al Green, The Statler Brothers, Kool & The Gang, Ricky Nelson, Dusty Springfield, Dick Dale, Peter Green and Urge Overkill. The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul while the soundtrack is as equally untraditional, consisting of nine songs from the movie, four tracks of dialogue snippets followed by a song, and three tracks of dialogue alone. Seven songs featured in the movie were not included in the original 41-minute soundtrack.

1. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (Dialogue)/Misirlou - Dick Dale, Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth
2. Royale With Cheese - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta
3. Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
4. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
5. Bustin' Surfboards - The Tornadoes
6. Lonesome Town - Rick Nelson
7. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
8. Zed's Dead, Baby [Dialogue] - Centurian, Maria De Medeiros, Bruce Willis
9. Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest (Dialogue)/You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry, Jerome Patrick Hoban
10. Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
11. If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags) - Maria McKee
12. Bring Out the Gimp (Dialogue)/Comanche - Peter Green, , Duane Whitaker
13. Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers
14. Personality Goes a Long Way [Dialogue] - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta
15. Surf Rider - The Lively Ones
16. Ezekiel 25:17 [Dialogue] - Samuel L. Jackson 

Amy Winehouse Frank on 2LP

Much can be said about the late Amy Winehouse, one of the U.K.'s flagship vocalists during the 2000s. The British press and tabloids seemed to focus on her rowdy behavior, afflictions and tragic end, but fans and critics alike embraced her rugged charm, brash sense of humor, and distinctively soulful and jazzy vocals.

Her platinum-selling breakthrough album, Frank (2003), elicited comparisons ranging from Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan to Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill. Interestingly enough, despite her strong accent and vernacular, one can often hear aspects of each of those singers' vocal repertoire in Winehouse's own voice. Nonetheless, her allure had always been her songwriting - almost always deeply personal but best known for its profanity and brutal candor.

With contributions from hip-hop producer/keyboardist Salaam Remi, Winehouse's amalgam of jazz, pop, soul, and hip-hop received rave reviews. The album was nominated for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize as well as two Brit Awards, and its lead single, "Stronger Than Me," won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. In 2007 Frank re-entered the charts in the wake of the phenomenal success of her sophomore release, the five times Grammy Award winning chart-topper, Back To Black.

LP1
1. Intro / Stronger Than Me
2. You Sent Me Flying / Cherry
3. Know You Now
4. Fuck Me Pumps
5. I Heard Love Is Blind
6. Moody's Mood For Love (Teo Licks)
7. (There Is) No Greater Love
8. In My Bed

LP2
1. Take The Box
2. October Song
3. What Is It About Men
4. Amy Amy Amy / Outro

Accessible and ambitious, Tears for Fears' phenomenal 10-million-selling second album, Songs From The Big Chair, marked a transition in the band's sound and catapulted them into international prominence. As a group, Tears for Fears led the "Second British Invasion" of pop music in the mid-'80s in both the U.S. and Europe with songs from the album dominating the radio airwaves. In the U.S., "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" led the Songs from the Big Chair single releases, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. "Shout" was the band's second single and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. The album inevitably went straight to No. 1, selling 5-million copies in the U.S. alone. Songs from the Big Chair peaked at No. 2 on the U.K. album charts and remained in the Top 10 for over six months. The album went on to yield the hit singles "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (which spent 14 weeks in the U.K. Top 5 and peaked at No. 2) and "Shout," which reached No. 4 and remained on the chart for 16 weeks. Both became global smash hits.

1. Shout
2. The Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels
8. Listen

Limited double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Platinum edition of the pop/country star's sophomore album featuring six new songs not found on the original release. Taylor is the only country female artist to have five Top 10 singles from a debut album and the only country female vocalist this decade to reach the Top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart. Fearless was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records. As with her debut, Swift wrote or co-wrote all 13 original tracks on Fearless. Most of the songs were written as the singer promoted her debut album as opening act for numerous country artists. Due to the unavailability of collaborators on the road, eight songs were self-penned by Swift. Other songs were co-written with Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Swift also made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all songs on the album with Nathan Chapman.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Jump Then Fall
• 2 Untouchable
• 3 Forever & Always (Piano Version)
• 4 Come in with the Rain
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Superstar
• 2 The Other Side of the Door
• 3 Fearless
• 4 Fifteen
• 5 Love Story
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Hey Stephen
• 2 White Horse
• 3 You Belong with Me
• 4 Breathe
• 5 Tell Me Why
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 You're Not Sorry
• 2 The Way I Loved You
• 3 Forever & Always
• 4 The Best Day
• 5 Change

Limit one per customer.  Double vinyl LP pressing. 2012 release, the fourth album from the internationally successful singer/songwriter. Swift co-wrote the album with people 'from all different places in music'. Collaborators include Dan Wilson, Butch Walker, Max Martin, Lori McKenna, Ed Sheeran and Mark Foster of Foster the People. Rolling Stone has described the album as 'Swift's most eclectic set ever, ranging from 'State of Grace', a howling, U2-style epic with reverb-drenched guitars, to a sweet acoustic duet with U.K. singer Ed Sheeran. Another key track even features a Dubstep-inspired bass breakdown. The album's lead single, 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', became Swift's first number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist.

• 1 State of Grace
• 2 Red
• 3 Treacherous
• 4 I Knew You Were Trouble
• 5 All Too Well
• 6 22
• 7 I Almost Do
• 8 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• 9 Stay Stay Stay
• 10 The Last Time (Featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol)
• 11 Holy Ground
• 12 Sad Beautiful Tragic
• 13 The Lucky One
• 14 Everything Has Changed (Featuring Ed Sheeran)
• 15 Starlight
• 16 Begin Again

Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 album from the enormously popular singer/songwriter. The first single 'Shake It Off' debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It was officially certified Platinum in only three weeks. 13 tracks.

Tracks

• 1 Welcome to New York
• 2 Blank Space
• 3 Style
• 4 Out of the Woods
• 5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
• 6 Shake It Off
• 7 I Wish You Would
• 8 Bad Blood
• 9 Wildest Dreams
• 10 How You Get the Girl
• 11 This Love
• 12 I Know Places
• 13 Clean

Some albums define an era, a place, a certain time in one's life. The Beastie Boys Check Your Head practically defined the summer of 1992 for those who were wary of the mainstreaming of rap and the insurgency of grunge. It was here that MCA, Adrock and Mike D. created a musical montage that defied genre, one with the swagger of punk and the rootsy earthiness of early-'70s soul-jazz, all layered with a hip-hop consciousness. Lo-fi, garagy, guitar-riff-loaded tracks like "Pass Da Mic" and "Gratitude" made it clear that the Beasties could be taken as serious musical forces, even innovators. Yet they still brilliantly tempered the proceedings with romps like "Professor Booty" and "Funky Boss." One of the best albums of the '90's, Check Your Head was a turning point for the band and the genesis of a new musical hybrid. 

1. Jimmy James
2. Funky Boss
3. Pass the Mic
4. Gratitude
5. Lighten Up
6. Finger Lickin' Good
7. So What'cha Want
8. Biz Vs. The Nuge
9. Time for Livin'
10. Something's Got to Give
11. Blue Nun
12. Stand Together
13. Pow
14. Maestro
15. Groove Holmes
16. Live at P.J.'s
17. Mark on the Bus
18. Professor Booty
19. In 3's
20. Namasté

Limited import reissue double 180-gram vinyl LP. All you need is love... and the greatest hits of The Beatles' later years. This classic Beatles compilation spanning the years 1967 - 1970 (A.K.A. The Blue Collection) has been cut from the original analog masters and the packaging is faithful to the original artwork. Sing along with Sgt. Pepper and the Walrus on Penny Lane or in Strawberry Fields. Get Back, Jojo, to the psychedelic sounds of The Beatles' most cutting-edge music. It's time to take that Magical Mystery Tour with John, Paul, Ringo and George with superior sounding 180-gram vinyl!

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Strawberry Fields Forever
• 2 Penny Lane
• 3 SGT. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• 4 With a Little Help from My Friends
• 5 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
• 6 A Day in the Life
• 7 All You Need Is Love
• 8 I Am the Walrus
• 9 Hello, Goodbye
• 10 Fool on the Hill
• 11 Magical Mystery Tour
• 12 Lady Madonna
• 13 Hey Jude
• 14 Revolution
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Back in the U.S.S.R
• 2 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
• 3 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• 4 Get Back
• 5 Don't Let Me Down
• 6 The Ballad of John and Yoko
• 7 Old Brown Shoe
• 8 Here Comes the Sun
• 9 Come Together
• 10 Something
• 11 Octopus's Garden
• 12 Let It Be
• 13 Across the Universe
• 14 The Long and Winding Road

Digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition of the classic sophomore album from the Britpop band, Oasis. The follow-up to Oasis's 1994 debut album DEFINITELY MAYBE, (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? was recorded in Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire, with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing. Released on October 2nd, 1995, it sold a record-breaking 347,000 copies in the first week. It spent 10 weeks at #1 in the UK, and is Oasis's most commercially successful with 22 million copies sold worldwide. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? features many of Oasis's biggest hit singles. Double vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. 

Tracks

• 1 Hello
• 2 Roll with It
• 3 Wonderwall
• 4 Don't Look Back in Anger
• 5 Hey Now!
• 6 [Untitled]
• 7 Bonehead's Bank Holiday
• 8 Some Might Say
• 9 Cast No Shadow
• 10 She's Electric
• 11 Morning Glory
• 12 [Untitled]
• 13 Champagne Supernova

New Zealand-born singer/songwriter Lorde scored her first US No. 1 album when her long-awaited second LP Melodrama topped the Billboard 200 in the summer of 2017. Co-written and co-produced with Jack Antonoff (Fun, The Bleachers), each track - including captivating singles "Green Light," "Liability," "Sober," and "Perfect Places" - is an intimate portrayal of late teenage years, which makes her wide appeal all the more impressive. The Fader called lead single "Green Light," "a true pop anthem – made for both earbud strutting and the club"; Billboard praised "Liability" as "an absolute jaw-dropper"; and SPIN hailed "Sober" as "the strangest, coolest Melodrama song yet." The universally acclaimed Melodrama was nominated for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. Featuring double sided record sleeve and double sided photo insert.

1. Green Light
2. Sober
3. Homemade Dynamite
4. The Louvre
5. Liability
6. Hard Feelings / Loveless
7. Sober II (Melodrama)
8. Writer In The Dark
9. Supercut
10. Liability (Reprise)
11. Perfect Places