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X-Ray Spex

The sophomore and final studio album from punk icons - X-Ray Spex.

X-Ray Spex

RSD Exclusive Limited Edition 180-gram Picture Disc with 12" Insert With Album Poster + Sleeve Notes by Stephanie Phillips.

X-Ray Spex

GERMFREE ADOLESCENTS (2021 repress)

Real Gone Music is proud to present Germfree Adolescents, one of the signature albums of the early (1978) British punk movement, in an "x-ray clear" v...

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Women In Revolt! Underground Rebellion in British Music 1977 – 1

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limited 180g neon yellow lp - £25.99 | Buy

Women In Revolt! is an exhibition of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK during the 1970s and 80s.

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Land of Kali

limited green lp - £22.99 | Buy

The Land of Kali’ (co-produced by Youth), is the first new Essential Logic studio album in 43 years, and features the forthcoming new single ‘Prayer...

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Prayer For Peace

This very limited 7” release of ‘Prayer for Peace’ accompanies the boxset and features a picture of Lora and Poly together during their time l...

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Dinked Archive No.16

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- “X-Ray effect” frosted & blue vinyl *
- Bonus fold-out colour poster*
- Dinked Archive obi strip & gold foil sticker *
- Limited pressing of 500 *

* EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition

X-Ray Spex

Conscious Consumer (2023 reissue)

Do Yourself In

limited indies only remastered crystal clear lp

Released: 15th Dec 2023

£28.99

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remastered cd

Released: 15th Dec 2023

£13.99

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dinked archive 16 - remastered "x-ray effect" frosted & blue lp in sleeve with dinked archive numbered obi strip & gold foil sticker + fold-out poster (500 only) - 1 per customer

Released: 15th Dec 2023

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The sophomore & final studio album from the punk icons - lovingly compiled & remastered from the original master tapes.

Available on LP for the first time ever (having only previously been on a limited CD run in 1995)! The album reunited the iconic X-Ray Spex vocalist, Poly Styrene, with original saxophonist, Lora Logic, & bassist, Paul Dean - as well as guitar from Kula Shaker frontman, Crispian Mills, under his then pseudonym, Red Spectre.

Pop culture is full of classic albums that slip between the cracks. In recent years, the late Poly Styrene & X-Ray Spex have achieved iconic status with their 1978 debut ‘Germfree Adolescents’ album but the group’s follow up album, 'Conscious Consumer’ - released 17 years later - has been lost to the sands of time.

The band are now revered worldwide for sparking a new kind of attitude in music. The late Poly is now a pop culture pin-up for an originality & feminism that barely existed at the time. Her acerbic, witty & brilliant lyrics & distinctive voice have stood the test of time.

Listening to the album again after a long break, Paul Dean is surprised: “‘Conscious Consumer’ now sounds so much better than I remember. It wasn’t properly released at the time and so no one knows about it. If you love ‘Germfree Adolescents’, you will love ‘Conscious Consumer’; they are linked together. X-Ray Spex didn’t have just one great album, it was two!”