The Slider, by T. Rex, led by the frizzy-haired musical wonder to behold Marc Bolan, is now available on MP3 format from Amazon this month for only $5.

The follow up to their breakthrough release Electric Warrior, The Slider takes those sonically delicious cues and turns the heat up, fully crystallizing and realizing the T. Rex sounds, at once glam, hard rock, sprinkles of metal and early punk, all led and commandeered by the gargantuan presence of Bolan on razor-sharp guitar riffs and leads and vocals. This record is like early Sun rock and roll recordings from the 1950s amped way up, up so much the VU meter arrows went into the red and beyond. “Metal Guru,” “Baby Strange,” “Chariot Choogie,” and especially, undoubtedly “Buick Mackane” and the title track, are at equal parts emotional, rocking, intense, and amazingly spellbinding. Immense props for The Slider, check it for yourself and get ready to be blown away.

Also available in the sale for only $5 each are other T. Rex albums: Electric Warrior, Dandy In The Underworld, Bolan’s Zip Gun, Zinc Alloy & The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow.

Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each.

Track Listing

1. Metal Guru
2. Mystic Lady
3. Rock On
4. The Slider
5. Baby Boomerang
6. Spaceball Ricochet
7. Buick Mackane
8. Telegram Sam
9. Rabbit Fighter
10. Baby Strange
11. Ballrooms Of Mars
12. Chariot Choogle
13. Main Man

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.