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Non-Music Shit / Re: Stolen Records

« on: October 02, 2014, 11:16:42 AM »

TV's Daniel has just about one of the best record thief stories ever.  He lived with a roommate who had more or less proven herself to be a bit dodgy.  His records go missing, its a small town (Denton, TX), and he finds them at the only record shop in town (at the time) that catered to punk/experimental stuff, all of them.  They ask who did it, they say "oh it was so-and-so, isn't she your roommate?"  He then confronts his roommate thief, she denies everything, only to collapse a few days later and admit.  She left town not long after that.  This same woman stole $700 cash from another friend, then left a creepy ransom note on her porch which said "I'm Watching You", then returning the cash.  Super strange.  He got most everything back though, from what I heard.

Name names. This thread should be like the sex offender registry.

I think the public humiliation and lost friends this sad person experienced is enough. 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Stolen Records

« on: October 02, 2014, 09:02:02 AM »

TV's Daniel has just about one of the best record thief stories ever.  He lived with a roommate who had more or less proven herself to be a bit dodgy.  His records go missing, its a small town (Denton, TX), and he finds them at the only record shop in town (at the time) that catered to punk/experimental stuff, all of them.  They ask who did it, they say "oh it was so-and-so, isn't she your roommate?"  He then confronts his roommate thief, she denies everything, only to collapse a few days later and admit.  She left town not long after that.  This same woman stole $700 cash from another friend, then left a creepy ransom note on her porch which said "I'm Watching You", then returning the cash.  Super strange.  He got most everything back though, from what I heard.   

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Monday 9/29 The Rebel, Pop. 1280, Silk Purse, Hexbreaker Quartet @ DBA

« on: September 30, 2014, 06:29:30 AM »

the show was great.  I didn't see yo ass erick.

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Music Shit / Re: Recent On The Beach boot

« on: September 25, 2014, 07:39:24 AM »

Was there ever an actual legitimate issue of this record?  I have an old copy, not sure if it is boot or not. 

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: DICK DIVER in NYC (w/ Dark Blue, PC Worship, Final Bloom) SEPT 25th and 26th

« on: September 25, 2014, 07:30:22 AM »

First show is tonight.  I never organize shows, but I take exception to the rule for Dick Diver.  Come out all you NY freaks.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: September 25, 2014, 07:25:47 AM »

Sheer Mag from Philly, can't stop jamming this 7" they have on bandcamp.  Tipped off by username MTV2.  Reminds me of the way I felt when I first heard the first Thomas Function LP, though I wouldn't necessarily compare them to T-Funk.  Catchy Rick Nielsen style leads, great vocals.  I hope to hear more. 

https://sheermag.bandcamp.com

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Music Shit / Re: Mirrors

« on: September 20, 2014, 09:39:56 AM »

Saturday, September 13, 2014 - Black 2 Comm
A li'l over a month later Mirrors were back at the Beachland Ballroom for a Lou Reed birthday celebration bash, and although Lou was nowhere to be seen his spirit surely moved through the band's entire set since all they did that night was play nothin' but Velvet Underground songs! And hey, I gotta say that it's sure great hearing Velvet Underground songs done up in the here and now that aren't being performed by overly-pierced gals with tattoos galore and a body odor that could overpower a dungpile. Klimek and his guitar onslaught performing old VU songs that hadn't yet been vinylized until the eighties really is a earful to behold, and it's even fabber hearing their version of the legendary "Sweet Sister Ray" with that multi-guitar drone cum lead entanglement that weaves its way in and outside of your psyche like nothing since PARADIESWARTS DUUL, a Velvets-stoner classic in itself. The best of the sixties filtered through a seventies consciousness being presented in the teens, a time when I thought that I was the only idiot out there standing against a bulwark of subpar sputum screaming at the top of my lungs LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, AND IT ALREADY IS YOU TURDBURGERS!!!!

I was in Cleveland, at Beachland, that night.  We played with Connections in the main ballroom, and Mirrors were downstairs (kinda weird that these shows were competing at the same venue eh?) and The Mirrors show was, sadly, not very well promoted, and there was hardly anybody there.  Kind of a drag, but I caught a couple of numbers and it was great.  I just heard "What Goes On" coming from the floorboards, and then eventually figured out that it wasn't the record.  I still need to pick up the Violet Times reissue.

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Music Shit / Re: Fave bands of Scotland?

« on: September 18, 2014, 05:37:04 AM »

Country Teasers
Belle & Sebastian
Bay City Rollers
Vaselines
Male Nurse

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Music Shit / Re: What is the best punk album of the 1990s?

« on: September 17, 2014, 03:33:51 PM »

I'll back that shit

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: September 13, 2014, 02:28:03 PM »

Like everyone else, I owe a debt to the Rhino reissues - that No Thanks boxset I stole at 19 was the first time I heard Magazine and Iggy and god knows what else. And the fact that you're sitting there with a curated, published document makes you weigh it with more legitimacy than you would a mixtape. At least now you know they are paying folks, and the more obscure the material is the more you know it's going to people that need that cash instead of {insert EMI imprint here}'s management.

That Rhino Records DIY comp was a game-changer for me, to be sure. 

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: September 12, 2014, 07:37:21 AM »

I don't see the issue with these comps, and I think you guys are slightly over-thinking this.  Conspicuous yuppie consumption happens everywhere, and at this point in my life, I've got better things to do than hunt down all of these original 7"s, so having them on one slab of wax is great.  And I've found out about some shit I didn't know about from them.  Soul Jazz is a good label too, and yeah, better them than some other reissue nerd label (Light in the Attic, 4Men, etc).  I'm also gonna go out so far as to say that the companion coffee table book is great, but maybe I'm going soft. 

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Music Shit / Re: Noise In My Head book

« on: September 10, 2014, 03:54:39 PM »

Just ordered.  Todd, how do I know if I'm getting the sketchy pigs blood record version? 

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: PC WORSHIP "SOCIAL RUST" out 9/9 on DULL TOOLS!

« on: September 10, 2014, 08:31:00 AM »

bump.  Still some tapes left going out with orders.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Release: The Ukiah Drag - In The Reaper's Quarters LP (Wharf Cat)

« on: September 10, 2014, 08:29:52 AM »

Any of these badboys at Heaven Street Adam?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: PC WORSHIP "SOCIAL RUST" out 9/9 on DULL TOOLS!

« on: September 03, 2014, 10:32:18 AM »

PRE ORDER "SOCIAL RUST" AND GET A FREE COPY OF THE LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE TAPE OF ALTERNATE RECORDINGS OF SONGS FROM THE ALBUM AS PRODUCED BY THE IMITABLE BEN GREENBERG IN A TRIDENT 18 HOUR SLEEP DEPRIVED SESSION MIXED STRAIGHT TO TAPE IN A CONVERTED CHURCH.
SOUNDS LIKE HELL IN A HAND BASKET.