Nirvana love Buzz 7 Original Pressing Sub Pop Record of the month Club

This near-mint copy of Nirvana s Love Buzz / Big Cheese was a total surprise when it arrived in the mail as the first single in the owner s Sub Pop Record-of-the-Month Club subscription.
Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman had a booth on the trade show floor at the New Music Seminar in July 1988 where they were actually selling records and talking up their upcoming record club.
I think a year subscription was 3/month.
The Internet says it was 35/year.
I signed up.
This single has been in a 6 mil thick Bags Unlimited clear sleeve since the day it came out of the mailing envelope.
Well, it s in whatever the thickest clear sleeve Bags Unlimited was selling in 1988.
I thought they were 7 mil bags then.
Maybe it s 5 mil.
It s really thick and it s kept the cardboard in minty condition.
I haven t seen many of these Happy inserts in other copies.
Mine confirms the memory that I subscribed before they launched the club and was smart enough to subscribe for a whole year.
The runout grooves are proper.
I had trouble getting a shot without reflection but the attached shot should show enough to let a buyer know it s there: Side A: SP-23-A Why Don t You Trade Those Guitars For Shovels? L-31540 Kdisc Side B: SP-23-B L-31540X Kdisc The number is 848/1000 I d like to tell you that everyone who got one of these in November 1988 knew that this was the band that would blow up the scene and take over the world, but it was hard to realize how important this band would be when the first thing they put out was a cover of a Shocking Blue album track from 1969.
Of course, at the end of the day, this is one of the most important 45s ever released, the first salvo from a band that would take our whole SST/Homestead/Sub Pop underground culture to the mainstream and eventually get hundreds of us punk rockers jobs at major labels and commercial radio stations.
So: beautiful copy from my personal collection needs a good home.
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