Terminal Boredom: Datapaniked in the Year 2005 - A Look Back at One of the Best Labels of the 90s

In 2005, Justin at Terminal Boredom more or less dissected the entire Datapanik Records output. Here's some of that:

People always ask me if I'm from Ohio, and are usually surprised to hear I've only visited once. My obsession started circa '93 when the first record by the short-lived Pet UFO was sent to my high school's radio station. In hindsight, that record sounds pretty dated (although I recall someone at Flipside called it as important a debut as the Germs "Forming"...only time will tell) but it came with a press release playing up Columbus as the next big scene, specifically highlighting MRR's declaration of the New Bomb Turks first LP as the best punk record of previous five years. I picked up the album soon thereafter, and was hooked. Tracking down a year or two's worth of NBT records (surely a half-dozen or more, given how prolific they were in the beginning) wasn't very hard, with one exception: their first couple records on Datapanik. It seems that even as the records were coming out, people were recognizing it as one of the most important labels of the 90s. But thanks to eBay, and a little passing of time, a single that once went for $20 can often be found for a single $5 bid (with major exceptions of course.) Here's a buyer's guide for the uninitiated.