A Record Collector's Guide

The second run of the Singles Club had thick-stock paper sleeves. They spared no expense. Sub Pop resurrected the attached perforated Singles Club subscription forms for a good portion of this run, only discontinuing it when they knew they were bringing the project to an end. When I originally assembled this page, I had fairly poor-quality images. STOUTR was a tremendous help with this batch, providing a large portion of the scans on this page. All of the test pressings I have seen from this batch have looked the same: black vinyl, small holes, generic yellow Erika Records test pressing labels. Like this:

SP434 The Jesus and Mary Chain

Birthday b/w Hide Myself

Sub Pop SP434 7", released April 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #1

The Singles Club is reborn. 2,000 copies on clear blue vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP436 Modest Mouse

Never Ending Math Equation b/w Workin' on Leavin' the Livin'

Sub Pop SP436 7", released May 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #2

2,000 copies on clear red vinyl. This one used to sell for a fair amount, but has come way down.

Attached Insert

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SP437 Sukpatch

Stolen Chrome b/w Bubble Shaff

Sub Pop SP437 7", released June 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #3

2,000 copies, all on white vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP438 Luna

Everybody's Talkin' b/w Fuzzy Wuzzy (demo)

Sub Pop SP438 7", released July 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #4

1,300 copies, all on clear yellow vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP439 Team Dresch/Longstocking

Team Dresch - It's a Conversation b/w Longstocking - Never Nowhere

Sub Pop SP439 7", released August 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #5

1,300 copies, all on clear orange vinyl. Very good Team Dresch song here. It made me happy that Team Dresch and Sub Pop could put something together. The value held steady over the better part of the two decades after it was released, but then dropped. I always figured it would appreciate, and it never really did. Some of these had separate loose inserts in addition to the attached ones. All were on orange vinyl, though there is some variation in the orange color form one to another - from a light orange to nearly (but not quite) red.

Attached Insert

Loose Insert

Test Pressing

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SP442 Ron Sexsmith

You Alone b/w We'll Manage

Sub Pop SP442 7", released September 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #6

1,300 copies, all on clear light blue vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP443 Creeper Lagoon

The Fountain b/w Dear Deadly (Dogday version)

Sub Pop SP443 7", released October 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #7

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear yellow vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP444 The Peechees

Dallas b/w If You Don't Know (Now You Know)

Sub Pop SP444 7", released November 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #8

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on (what else?) peach marble vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP447 Love as Laughter

Nude Hos b/w Watching Your Fingers

Sub Pop SP447 7", released December 1998 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #9

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on blue & white vinyl. Nice lookin' record.

Attached Insert

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SP448 Gary Lee Conner

Grasshopper's Dream b/w Behind the Smile

Sub Pop SP448 7", released January 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #10

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear red vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP451 The Get Up Kids

10 Minutes b/w Anne Arbour

Sub Pop SP451 7", released February 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #11

Limited to 1,300 copies: 1,200 on black vinyl and 100 on clear vinyl. The clear vinyl version is very tough to come by. After a steep rise, the price dropped quite a bit and stablized.

Attached Insert

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SP452 The Kent 3

The Sleeper b/w Hatsov Turod

Sub Pop SP452 7", released March 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #12

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on turquoise marble vinyl. Supposedly due to a press overrun, there was a "Super Electro's Special Limited Edition" version of this one released. The vinyl was the same, but it was given a photocopied sleeve, which was hand-numbered (out of 57).

Attached Insert

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SP458 Beachwood Sparks

Midsummer Daydream b/w Windows 65

Sub Pop SP458 7", released April 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #13

1,300 copies pressed, all on purple marble vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP459 Dot Allison

Colour Me b/w Tomorrow Never Comes

Sub Pop SP459 7", released May 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #14

1,300 copies pressed, all on dark green marble vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP462 Bonnie Prince Billy

Let's Start a Family b/w A Whorehouse is Any House

Sub Pop SP462 7", released June 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #15

1,300 copies pressed, all on clear pale blue vinyl. Once sold for more than it does now.

Attached Insert

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SP471 Pedro the Lion

Song A b/w Song B

Sub Pop SP471 7", released July 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #16

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on black vinyl. Where is the line between "minimalist" and "uncreative"...? Brilliant song titles, guys.

Attached Insert

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SP473 Rusty Willoughby

Here Come the Weakened b/w And the World Moves On

Sub Pop SP473 7", released August 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #17

1,300 copies pressed, all on white vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP472 Crooked Fingers

Atchafalayan Death Waltz b/w Juliette

Sub Pop SP472 7", released September 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #18

1,300 copies, all on green vinyl. However, there is some color variation. Most copies are solid green, but some are green marble. The market does not seem to differentiate.

Attached Insert

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SP474 The Catheters

Put It Together b/w Days Gone By

Sub Pop SP474 7", released October 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #19

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on sky blue marble vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP484 Mudhoney

Butterfly Stroke b/w Editions of You

Sub Pop SP484 7", released November 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #20

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on amber (cola) vinyl...well, sort of. You can tell that the pressing was designed to be all the same color, but it just didn't work out that way. The color varied quite a bit...many are on brown, cola-colored vinyl. Some are on more of an orange-brown. Others go to a reddish-brown. The overall effect can be quite different. Pricing on this one can vary a bit, but a normal one is reliably in the $12-15 range.

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SP488 The Amazing Crowns

Chop Shop b/w Amateur Night

Sub Pop SP488 7", released December 1999 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #21

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear blue vinyl. Great band. These guys were (are?) a lot of fun. They'll always be Royal to me.

Attached Insert

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SP489 Fields of Gaffney

Cold Weather b/w Twilight

Sub Pop SP489 7", released January 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #22

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on blue marble vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP492 The Dead C

Stealth b/w The Factory

Sub Pop SP492 7", released February 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #23

Mute STUMM143-1 (UK)

Limited to 1,300 copies, supposedly all on black vinyl. Then, suddenly, in May 2009, someone showed up with a clear vinyl copy. This is an incredibly scarce variation. It has sold a handful of times in recent years, always in the $50 range.

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SP496 Death Cab for Cutie

Underwater! b/w The Army Corps of Architects

Sub Pop SP496 7", released March 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #24

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear vinyl. This was the point at which what would become the more expensive Singles Club V2 entries started getting released.

Attached Insert

Insert 2

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SP517 To Rococo Rot

Jacky b/w Crosby

Sub Pop SP517 7", released April 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #25

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on purple marble vinyl.

Attached Insert

Test Pressing

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SP494 The Yo-Yo's

Time of Your Life b/w Seven Shades of Blue

Sub Pop SP494 7", released May 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #26

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on yellow vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP518 The Creatures

Take Mine b/w Sad Cunt

Sub Pop SP518 7", released June 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #27

1,300 copies, all on black vinyl. Siouxsie + Sub Pop...what could possibly go wrong? Oh...

Attached Insert

Test Pressing

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SP519 Trumans Water

Miss Spaceship b/w Radar 1941

Sub Pop SP519 7", released July 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #28

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear yellow vinyl.

Attached Insert

Test Pressing

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SP522 Quadrajets

Bad Mojo at the Border

Sub Pop SP522 7", released August 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #29

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear red vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP523 Zeke

Jack Torrance b/w Evil Dead/Let's Go

Sub Pop SP523 7", released September 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #30

How to make your record memorable: put Tad on the sleeve. Limited to 1,300 clear green copies. This is one of the few Singles Club V2 entries for which the price has been rising in recent years.

Attached Insert

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SP524 Migala

The North of Fire b/w Sad Corner Song

Sub Pop SP524 7", released October 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #31

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear red vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP537 Railroad Jerk

Old McNeil b/w Only One Thing

Sub Pop SP537 7", released November 2000 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #32

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP527 The White Stripes

Party of Special Things To Do b/w China Pig/Ashtray Heart

Sub Pop SP527 7", released December 2000 (U.S.)

Third Man TMR 079 7", released 2011 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #33

1,300 copies on split red & white vinyl...aaaaaand suddenly Sub Pop mattered again. Thank you very much, John Peel. You know how it works...no matter how knowledgeable we like to think we are as collectors, at the end of the day, the UK drives the market. This record showed up with some regularity on John Peel's radio show, The White Stripes simultaneously gained popularity, and the record's value took off. Between 2001 and 2002, the value skyrocketed. I sold my first copy when I was unemployed in the summer of 2002 for over $150. The value leveled off around the $350 mark, and then came down a bit at the end of 2008 with the weakening of the global economy and the British Pound.

In 2011, Jack White re-pressed this single on his label, Third Man Records, on tri-color red/white/black vinyl. That further depressed the value of the Sub Pop single.

This record also began the very cool-looking trend of split vinyl colors (they did this earlier with the Love as Laughter single, but this really started the consistent half & half trend). This one was half red and half white. Looks great.

Attached Insert

Test Pressing

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SP538 The Anniversary

What's My Name? My Name is...What!? What!? b/w Tu-Whit To-Woo

Sub Pop SP538 7", released January 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #34

Limited to 1,300 copies, on both yellow marble and purple marble vinyl. I don't know how many of each were pressed, but they seemed to be sold with roughly the same frequency (if anything, the purple one is slightly less common). However...there is also another version that surfaced, on blue-purple marble vinyl. Word is that there were about 50 of these pressed and given to the band. Considering the scarcity, it is very surprising that the blue-purple one has not sold for more. I think it never really appeared on the market until after the popularity of the band had waned a bit.

Attached Insert

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SP542 Johnny Dowd

Mother Love b/w Daddy's Girl

Sub Pop SP542 7", released February 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #35

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear yellow vinyl.

Attached Insert

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SP528 Bright Eyes

I Will Be Grateful For This Day. I Will Be Grateful For Each Day To Come. b/w When the Curious Girl Realizes She is Under the Glass Again

Sub Pop SP528 7", released March 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #36

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on green vinyl. All with very annoying titles. This one sold consistently in the $65-75 range for years, but its value has plummeted in recent years.

Attached Insert

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SP526 Strictly Ballroom

Fire b/w Fire (remix)

Sub Pop SP526 7", released April 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #37

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on blue vinyl.

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SP541 Kinski

Penthouse Suite b/w Please Remain Seated

Sub Pop SP541 7", released May 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #38

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear vinyl.

This page was last updated on November 7, 2019.

SP539 Enon

The Nightmare of Atomic Men b/w Pollen Lane

Sub Pop SP539 7", released June 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #39

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear vinyl.

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SP543 The Tyde

The World's Strongest Man b/w Sullen Eyes

Sub Pop SP543 7", released July 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #40

1,300 copies, all on yellow vinyl.

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SP572 Destroyer

The Music Lovers b/w The Spirit of Giving

Sub Pop SP572 7", released August 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club single #41

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear vinyl. The price used to be somewhat high for this one, but it came way down.

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SP573 J Mascis

Leaving on a Jet Plane b/w Too Hard

Sub Pop SP573 7", released September 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #42

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear yellow vinyl. Along with the Zeke single and the Mountain Goats single, this is one of the only Singles Club V2 records that has been getting more expensive in recent years.

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SP574 Pretty Girls Make Graves

More Sweet Soul b/w If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone

Sub Pop SP574 7", released October 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #43

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on light blue & black split vinyl. This band was great, and this was at the very beginning of their few-year run.

Test Pressing

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SP581 The Mountain Goats

Jam Eater Blues b/w Store/Straight Six

Sub Pop SP581 7", released November 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #44

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on tan & purple split (i.e. peanut butter & jelly) vinyl. This one has continued to get more expensive.

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SP582 Carissa's Wierd

You Should Be Hated Here b/w Suedehead (Morissey)

Sub Pop SP582 7", released December 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #45

Yes, they are spelling "weird" that way intentionally. It still makes me twitch. I don't want to talk about it. Limited to 1,300 copies, all on solid pink vinyl.

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SP588 Mazarin

Memories Change in Patterns b/w Only Colombe

Sub Pop SP588 7", released January 2002 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #46

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on red vinyl.

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SP570 Rye Coalition

Got This Thing on the Move b/w Whole Lotta Rosie

Sub Pop SP570 7", released Februray 2002 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #47

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear blue vinyl.

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SP598 Iron and Wine

Call Your Boys b/w Dearest Forsaken

Sub Pop SP598 7", released March 2002 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 #48

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear vinyl. This was once one of the most expensive records in the Singles Club V2 set, but its value has dropped precipitously.

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SP602 Ugly Casanova

Diggin' Holes b/w Baby's Clean Conscience

Sub Pop SP602 7", released March 2001 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club V2 BONUS

Limited to 1,300 copies, all on clear yellow vinyl. The swan song...a bonus Ugly Casanova single. While generally not my style, this one is pretty good. Another one that dropped a bit in value after being high for a number of years.

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