Sold Date: November 24, 2015
Start Date: November 17, 2015
Final Price: $35.00 (USD)
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postage is $7...and not $4

Artist: DANIEL JOHNSTON

Title: Hi, How Are You (The Unfinished Album)

Label / Catalogue Number: Homestead Records (HMS 117-1)

Released: 1988 (Made In U.S.A.)

Record Format: 12” LP (album)

Comment: extremeley rare 'Unfinished Album'. eBay prices: $154 + $175 + $152. Daniel Johnston is from Texas and this rarity was released on the great US punk label 'Homestead'. Complete with both inserts. The cover has been opened but still has the original PLASTIC SHRINKWRAP over it (see scan). Please do not miss this Unfinished Album from this 'outsider' music legend. 15 titles are printed on the back of the sleeve. You can listen to 'Poor You' / 'Big Business Monkey' / 'Walking The Cow' / 'I Picture Myself With A Guitar' / 'Despair Came Knocking' and so on. In addition I have found the following information about this great person. A great story, please read:

In 1985, Daniel Johnston roamed the streets of Austin, Texas, passing out cassette recordings of his primitive homemade songcraft to just about anyone he encountered. Someday, he told people, his music was going to make him famous, really famous. Beyond the simple wish that people hear his songs, he wanted the glory, the adulation, even the pitfalls, just like his idols (and occasional songwriting subject), the Beatles. So far, things haven't quite worked out that way. On a cult level, Johnston has never wanted for attention. His career was only a few months old when he earned a slot on an all-Austin episode of MTV's The Cutting Edge. Since then, he has been a celebrated denizen of the underground, and literally scores of artistes have covered his work, celebrating what they consider to be Johnston's absolute genius: quavering, disarmingly honest songs that are - behind the crude execution - memorable, intelligent and prodigiously crafted. But for all its power and singularity, Daniel Johnston's music has not been his sole drawing card. A manic depressive who is gentle, funny, good-natured and even sharp when at ease, Johnston is also given to spectacular flights of fancy and frightening violent spells. Hi How Are You, the tape that first brought him wide recognition, was recorded during a nervous breakdown in 1983. On the 1986 evening he appeared on MTV, Johnston was in the Austin State Hospital, having attacked his first manager amid bouts of increasing incoherence, the result of an acid trip that has had lifelong consequences. To many, Johnston is simply "that crazy guy," notorious mainly for his bizarre but ultimately tragic adventures that invariably end with him confined to the hospital or in the care of his ageing, long-suffering parents. But it could also be the worst thing that has ever happened to him. That's because Daniel Johnston's life and career seem to mirror the lockstep pattern of his illness. Excessive attention always sends him over the edge, the best times inevitable precursors to the worst. A recording session in Maryland was followed by an incident where Johnston chased a woman out her second floor window because he thought she had the devil in her. Whilst being flown home to West Virginia after playing the 1990 Austin Music Awards, Johnston - convinced his pilot father was possessed by satan and taking Daniel to be executed - caused the plane to crash-land. Daniel has spent the last 14 or so years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience. Initiates, including a healthy number of discerning musicians and critics, have hailed him as an American original in the style of bluesman Robert Johnson and country legend Hank Williams. A growing number of artists - among them Yo La Tengo, Sonic Boom, former Velvet Underground drummer Mo Tucker and even Johnny Depp! - have covered Daniel’s songs.

Condition / Zustand: EX/M- (and a cut out on sleeve)

Postage & Packaging / Porto & Verpackung:

OUTSIDE GERMANY (all countries): $7

DEUTSCHLAND für 1-26 LPs selber Preis: €6 (DHL-Paket, versichert)

Mailing / Versand: all records will be sent in plain white sleeves outside of the picture sleeves to avoid any seam splits (alle Platten werden in einer neutralen weißen Hülle außerhalb des Plattencovers verschickt, um Beschädigungen am Originalcover zu vermeiden). All records will be shipped in special LP record mailers, two cardboard paddings (the best) will be used to avoid bending. Ebenso werden alle Platten entsprechend stabil in speziellen Schallplatten-Versandkartons mit zwei dicken Pappkartons verpackt.

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