Record Shop Talk: Punk records and punk collectors like Henry Rollins

... what's the big releases for this month at Luna? Have you, uh-

Ooh, that's a good question

... has the Paul McCartney, uh, been selling?

Paul McCartney's been selling a lot.

We had, um, we had that listening party.

We sold a lot of copies, and then we had a bunch of listening party exclusive silvers, which sold really well as well.

Um, I mean, Danzig reissued the first couple Danzig records, so that was a-

Right

... that's kind of a huge deal.

And then Smashing Pumpkins, the RSD Essential, the silver smoke and purple splatter of, uh, Gish.

It's also been a big hitter.

Yeah, there's a lot of good ones right now though.

A lot of artists releasing a lot of, like, really good pressings, which makes me happy, 'cause every week I try and buy a new release, even if I don't know it, just to stay in the loop.

Right.

And I've been so happy with the quality of records being pressed right now, um, 'cause that is an issue I've had in the past.

So I was...

Nothing but peace and love to everybody putting out records.

They're great records.

Has it been the quality as far as, like, um- Has it been colored vinyl, or what, what was the issue that you found with these ones?

Just warps, you know, as they're pressing so much-

Mm-hmm

... sometimes-

Right, right, right

... things come out warped, or maybe the sleeves are damaged after getting sent through the distributor, or they're missing.

Like, the insert's creased, or the record's...