Looks like they renamed the label and the artist. Mo-Soul Records became M.S.R. and The Angry Six became The Sparks:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Sparks-Cool-It-Woe-Woe/release/9485553
I think what you need is this excellent one-man project: https://americanradiohistory.com/index.htm
The site also has Billboard and Cash Box magazines scanned, but not everything.
In discogian language Unofficial is anything that's not licensed properly, mostly bootlegs. Have you tried asking discogs staff about his business? Not all forms of bootleg business is allowed, especially if he makes them on demand. I can't remember exactly where the line gets drawn, but it's worth sending discogs staff a message.
I was looking at what I bought last year and thought it would be interesting to see what everyone else had purchased in the last year. Old or new, cheap or expensive. Post your favourites!
These are mine:
Landy Mc Neil – Move It (Move On)
Rated "X" – What You Gonna Do About It
Othea George – Now That You're Gone
John Standberry, Jr. – Keep On Working
Forth Session – She's Gone
Black & Ward – This Is My Confusion
Jade – Viva!
Carolyn Veal – Your Love Is Like A Chain Around My Heart
The Fabulous Pearls – Jungle Bunny
Alvin Delk, The Rocking Cavaliers – Ain't Nothin Shakin'
I recently bought from a US seller who sent through DHL Global Mail, at a rate of $7 for one 45. I don't know if he has any special deals going on, but that's a very old-fashioned price.
Free shipping would free up more money which I'd spend on other items from my wantlist. It would be nice but not realistic. The only version I know of that does free shipping is "Punk-Post" which basically is a buddy system where people who travel bring packages for other punks.
Probably. I've only bought one 45 with GSP but when I placed my bid ebay updated the customs price as soon as I entered a number in the bid box. I used that to find the exact top bid I could place without getting hit with a customs charge.
I've never felt comfortable asking for a low value on the customs slip. I am happy every time someone does it, but technically it's fraud and could get the seller in trouble if someone wanted to strike down on this (which becomes more probable with every new trade agreement that gets passed).
DRA has a nice design. Modernist jazzy style.
And A Bem Sole is so typical it looks almost made up in retrospect.
I also like this one. The name helps. A bit too blue-eyed track, but still nice.
I recently had a package through GSP. Shipping was expensive, but just as fast as ordinary post. There were lots of hassle from ebay for each step of the process. The 45 was re-packaged in bubble wrap and foam boards in an envelope. So many headaches and suggestions of slow delivery and crap I never have with ordinary airmail. And that's without having to worry about taxes since the 45 was (ridiculously) cheap.
Storm was the first label. And it was 1961. Where Prelude comes in is unclear.
https://books.google.no/books?id=KSEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=J.J.+Jackson+–++Let+The+Show+Begin&hl=no&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib3_KxvKfOAhXBDSwKHSx6BdMQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=J.J. Jackson – Let The Show Begin&f=false
Precisions on Drew, always the same price and always as many copies for sale as any other 20 quid record.
Exits on Gemini, local hit on at least two label variations. Always a handful of copies around if you want to pay the steadily rising price.