• I'm in need of cash for winter cycling threads, and have a new copy of this weighty tome to sell. (It is literally new: I work at the publisher, got a copy from stock and have never opened or read it). Blurb below:


    Wreckers of Civilisation tells the story of two interconnected groups: the performance art group COUM Transmissions and the music group Throbbing Gristle, focusing on their key protagonists – Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter.

    "These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians - Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter. What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book.

    From the foreword by Jon Savage:

    Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.

    http://blackdogonline.com/all-books/wreckers-of-civilisation.html

    The Wreckers of Civilization : The Story of Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle: The Story of Coum Transmissions and "Throbbing Gristle": Amazon.co.uk: Simon Ford: Books

    It's going for crazy money on Amazon and Abe Books, and whilst i'm not asking the same (£340!), sensible offers only. So, sticking to rules and whatnot, let's say starting at £250. Maybe this is nuts, but it's much cheaper than anywhere else ive seen.

  • I picked mine up on eBay for £35. Rare? Yes. Brilliant book? Yes. Worth the amount you are suggesting? No.

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