This page is designed to chronicle the very short-lived careers of one of Rose Melberg's projects: Tiger Trap. I have done another, for Go Sailor, as well. Between the two pages, we are talking about two separate bands, but everything listed here still only spans a three-year period (1992-95). There was some great stuff in there. There's a great discography page out there about all of Rose Melberg's projects. I have opted to just focus on two of them.
Quite a debut for Tiger Trap. I don't know if something happened with these sleeves on the front end, but every one I have ever seen has either had a water stain on it or has been very wrinkly. Maybe it is because the sleeves were screen-printed onto normal paper. Black vinyl.
Now...there were several pressings of this one, which we know because the address on the back of the sleeve kept changing: one was in San Francisco, one was in Daly City, and one was in San Jose. I'm not sure which came first between San Francisco and Daly City. I did some digging and could not determine when the label was at the Daly City address. Between the Daly City and San Francisco sleeves, all were screen-printed with red print. Some of these had additional gold background print. The San Jose address sleeve appears to have been the last of the three. That one was not screen-printed (it was the black and white photocopied sleeve above). The back of that sleeve listed the Four-Letter Words Winter '93 auction list (the original came out in 1992). Most seem to go for around the same price. I think the Daly City ones are less common than the San Francisco sleeves, the sleeves with gold print are a bit rarer than those without, and the San Jose photocopied sleeves seem to be the rarest.
| Version | Approximate value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| FLW-008 Black - San Francisco Sleeve, w/ Gold Print | 8-12 | 5 | Stable |
| FLW-008 Black - San Francisco Sleeve, No Gold Print | 8-12 | 4 | Stable |
| FLW-008 Black - Daly City Sleeve, w/ Gold Print | 8-12 | 5 | Stable |
| FLW-008 Black - Daly City Sleeve, No Gold Print | 8-12 | 4 | Stable |
| FLW-008 Black - San Jose Sleeve, Black and White | 15-25 | 7 | Stable |
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| Sleeve | Paper full |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
This compilation contained a (very good) version of "Supreme Nothing." Black vinyl Kill Rock Stars compilation. The first pressing of this record has a hand-silkscreened sleeve. It was hand-numbered in pencil (out of 808 copies).
| Version | Value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| KRS207 (Silkscreened Sleeve) | 12-15 | 5 | Stable |
| KRS207 | 6-10 | 1 | Stable |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
There weren't too many copies of this YoYo comp released on vinyl. There were purple marble and black copies made. The prices for both have come way down over time.
| Version | Value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| YOYO 2 Purple Marble | 8-12 | 4 | Down |
| YOYO 2 Black | 10-15 | 4 | Stable |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
This was a three-song single that led up to Tiger Trap's album. "Hiding" is a really fun song - one of my favorites of theirs. "Supercrush" was a different version from the one that came out on the album. "You and Me" was the same version. Black vinyl.
| Version | Approximate value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| IPU-36 Black | 6-10 | 4 | Stable |
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| Sleeve | Paper foldover |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
Tiger Trap's only full-length album, and it's a good one. The vinyl has become increasingly tough to find. It can be fairly expensive these days.
| Version | Approximate value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| KLP 017 Black | 45-55 | 5 | Up |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
Tiger Trap was just cranking out records for about...well, a year. They quickly followed their only full-length album with this EP. It is very solid overall. The 10" was on black vinyl.
| Version | Approximate value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| KLP 023 Black | 15-25 | 4 | Stable |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
And just like that...Tiger Trap's brief career was done. Before I started paying attention to these things, I could have sworn this was one of their earliest recordings. I guess not. Mail order copies were on powder blue marble vinyl - those are tough to find. Per the Slumberland discography, "a very small quantity had hand-colored sleeves with a picture of Pete Townshend." Those are preposterously difficult to find. I found one after 8-10 years of looking.
Incidentally, I came across this picture at one point:
What do you want to bet someone found this record in a thrift store and just had to use it for a sleeve?
| Version | Approximate value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| SLR 033 Powder Blue Marble | 15-20 | 6 | Stable |
| SLR 033 Black | 8-12 | 3 | Stable |
| SLR 033 Pete Townshend Sleeve | 40-60 | 10 | Volatile |
 Test Pressing |
 Powder Blue Marble |
 Black |
| Sleeve | Paper foldover |
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| Credits | BJ: Pete Townshend Sleeve image |
This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
A reader clued me into this one...apparently, my Tiger Trap discography was not quite complete. This mightilty bizarre soundtrack/tribute to the director contained a Tiger Trap song that was never released elsewhere. It's a pretty good one, as well. Fully worth tracking down. Black vinyl.
| Version | Approximate value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| Planet Pimp PPR-009 Black | 10-15 | 4 | Stable |
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This page was last updated on February 23, 2020.
| Scarcity Score | Definition |
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| 10 | Near impossible: Fewer than 50 copies or publicly sold every few years |
| 8-9 | Very rare: 50-199 copies or publicly sold 1-2 times per year |
| 6-7 | Rare: 200-499 copies or publicly sold a few times a year |
| 4-5 | Medium: 500-999 copies or publicly sold ~10 times a year |
| 1-3 | Common: 1000+ copies, readily available, or publicly sold 20+ times a year |
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