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I'm sure some were saved for stores and mailorders. I'd try the usual places soon: Goner, Other Music, etc.sold OUT.
fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Academy will have it for mailorder soon, we sold out in the shop but we re-ordered.
Whatever sonic advantage tapes have over other formats is negligible, not to say nonexistent. It's a shitty format that rightly died when CD-Rs came along.
For several years now the noise scene has been awash in piece-of-shit CD-Rs; now it's cluttered with piece-of-shit cassettes, too.
Anyone who argues that the cassette revival isn't basically a move toward obscurantism and fetishism is full of shit. If you really want to get your music out, the obvious choice is a medium that (a) most people can enjoy; (b) can faithfully reproduce the music you actually made; (c) isn't destined to break or wear out in a short span of time... In other words, vinyl and CDs.
Mike and Maya of Double Leopards "curated" an "exhibition" of underground cassettes at a gallery in Chelsea last year. I read the abstract for the exhibition and it was fulla the most inane, pseudo-academic justifications for this bullshit trend.
Dominick F. put forth the only reasonable argument for tapes that I've heard so far, and it's a pretty obscure one: they're aesthetically pleasing because of the dimensions of the tape itself -- it fits in your pocket, and its proportions agree roughly with those of the human body. (Yeah, I know; and that's the best argument I've heard.)
I don't particularly care for CDs, either, but they remain the cheapest way to get music out to a large audience.
This is the kinda vitriolic response I'm always surprised by. I can understand how people prefer CD-R's, but it's the people that get PISSED OFF by the medium is who I want to hear from. It's just a thing. So I always think it's weird that people get so mad. It's like when girls started tucking jeans into their boots again and my friend started going ballistic on them. Big deal, you know? People wanna put out tapes and people wanna buy them. Live and let.
Like I said, I like them, but I really don't fetishize them. I keep the relatively few I have (20ish?) in a drawer. I can't even see them... I think they're kinda cool, no big deal.
But I know some people who go into a FRENZY at their very existance.
Mostly people my age or a bit older who probably spent many hours respindling their cassettes with a pencil. That shit'll drive you nuts.
If I understand you, you have a licensing or clearance issue, not a pressing or production issue. I used to know a guy named David Katznelson years ago who worked there in their clearance dept. But every major label has had personnel purges over the last several years, so I doubt he's still there.David Katznelson hasn't worked for Warners for years now. PM me with what your after and maybe I know where to send you.
Not that I read this over, I'm not being very helpful.
Can't you just access their web site and see if you can find someone to talk to that way?
haha. That my neighborhood shitty record store. I told the guy I wanted them to hold a copy of each single for me. I guess he notWell they ordered 5 of them so maybe he still has one on hold for you. Crazy!
Pitchfork misses the mark???
Color me surprised.
Did you have trouble finding the first one?
It should've been fairly easy to find.
yes quit easy to find and it seems like they are doing a repress of the first 7", but I like the hype...
I was in there yesterday and Wayne had a pile of old Twisted Village 7"s out, apparently Fordced Exposure found a big ol' box of TV stuff that's been gone for ages and he's got it out. Picked up singles by Luxurious Bags, Magic Hour, Gate, St. Johnny, and The Garbage & The Flowers.
possibly mailorderable, he definitely had 4-5 copies of each at the store. I didn't see if there was other weird old TV stuff out in the LP or CD stacks, but who knows?
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