These are the test pressings used to evaluate vinyl quality before the main run is pressed. There are only 5 in existence. These will be hand numbered. They come in a plain black jacket
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition Color Vinyl (Big Blue Marble) plus CD. Gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeve. Artwork by Jo Clauwaert. LPs limited to 100 copies
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
For the 2nd pressing of FREAKONS debut LP, we ran 100 copies of Big Blue Marble LPs. Once these are gone, this color wont be pressed again
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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edition of 100
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$30USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Classic black LP in gatefold jacket. Artwork by Jo Clauwaert.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Old Skool CD in 6 panel digipak. Artwork by Jo Clauwaert
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Limited Edition Color LP
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Olive swirl LP, limited to 100 copies, gatefold jacket. Artwork by Jo Clauwaert.
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about
The Mannington Mine Disaster, by West Virginia singer-songwriter and union agitator Hazel Dickens, tells the story of a deadly 1968 mine explosion. Learning about Hazel Dickens’s travels in Wales, and her work for solidarity between Welsh and Appalachian miners, was foundational to the FREAKONS.
lyrics
We read in the paper and the radio tells
Us to raise our children to be miners as well.
Oh tell them how safe the mines are today
And to be like your daddy, bring home a big pay.
They lure us with money, it sure is a sight.
When you may never live to see the daylight
With your name among the big headlines
Like that awful disaster at the Mannington mine
So don’t you believe them, my boy,
That story’s a life.
Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine
Where seventy-eight miners were buried alive,
Because of unsafe conditions your daddy died.
There’s a man in a big house way up on the hill
Far, far from the shacks where the poor miners live.
He’s got plenty of money, Lord, everything’s fine
And he has forgotten the Mannington mine.
Yes, he has forgotten the Mannington mine.
There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine
There is a grave way down in the Mannington mine
Oh, what were their last thoughts, what were their cries
As the flames overtook them in the Mannington mine.
So don’t you believe them, my boy,
That story’s a lie.
Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine
Where seventy-eight good men so uselessly died
Oh don’t follow your daddy to the Mannington mine.
How can God forgive you, you do know what you’ve done.
You’ve killed my husband, now you want my son.
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