Ludichrist "immaculate deception"

Every collector has some holy grails they persue.  Albums from their youth that have some emotional connection to their musical biography.  These elusive grails are usually out of print which is how they end up being rare and special.  I discovered #ludichrist on a combat records sampler cassette in 1986 and went out straight away and bought their debut on cassette.  It's thrashy tounge-in-cheek crossover hardcore with songs like "most people are dicks" and "green eggs and ham".  It was the summer I took up skateboarding and I loved the humor in an otherwise pretty grim fear-the-apocolypse of the cold war genre.
Years passed and I had lost the tape and forgotten about the release until I had a nostalgic collecting phase of thrash metal and crossover in my early thirties.  I checked online shops like Amazon and ebay and the CD was out of print and going for between $50-$100.  I really have a hard time paying that much for a release, in fact I never have so I resigned it to the "maybe I'll find it" mental database.  More years passed and I was discussing the album with another old guy at a tattoo shop I used to work at.  We listened to a streaming version of it and I enjoyed remembering lyrics and songs and then double checked to see if it had been re-released or something.  Nope.  Then, on one of my weekly combs through used cd bins I flipped through an "L" section and there in all its jewel cased glory was this disc!  My eyes darted to the price sticker...$1.99!?! Seriously?!? I bounded to the counter to pay for it before some employee realised their mistake and tried to re price the cd.  I gingerly placed the prize in my backpack and walked out to my motorcycle.  I drove directly back to my apartment ignoring my ritualistic lunch (at which I would pour over my purchases of the day reading cd booklets and stuffing my face with Indian food)  I listened to the album twice and placed it in its appropriate alphabetical spot on my shelf.  Every time my eye catches the spine of this disc I feel warm and fuzzy with conquest. It still goes for over $50 on amazon.