Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments appreciation thread

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I bought mine at a record swap at the Epicenter Zone in SF from a guy named Roger who put out that Insults LP and The Mad 12"....was it Brain Transplant Records?

that's funny. the copy i just sold belonged to a guy named roger. and he ran brain transplant.

[DJ Rick]

He had his wife and baby with him at the record swap.

[Scrod Prickknee]

I can't think of better major label releases over the last 2 decades...weird that they were even picked up.

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that's a man who had his priorities straight.

he's a good friend of mine. those records i sold were the remnants of his trade/sale piles.

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I can't think of better major label releases over the last 2 decades...weird that they were even picked up.

that was all kugelbergo's doing, as i understand it.

[denkinger]

I believe, yes, I bought my Hackamore Brick Lp off Roger at that same swap (which I organized) as well as both of the Brats 45s, which he termed "crap". I also saw Ickums swapping a Gynecologists 45 for something, sorry, "tasty" right after I conducted my biz.

I guess I can't call TJSA underrated or anything anymore.

[dS]

I'm from Indiana and all, but do other people actually like the Gynecologists?

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i found the gynecologists' record in phx for $2. it was on ebay within hours. what a worthless piece of shit. actually, i take that back; it was worth $104.

[Dan Celebrity]

The only records I ever spent collector money on was "Career Interruption Code" 7" and the TJSA split with Monster Truck Five. $25 each. Even though I had a copy of the "Shave the Baby" comp for my car.

I paid that exact amount for the MT5 split today to a fellow termboer (though it included shipping to Finland)! Funny timing for this thread. Shave the Baby comp staid in the car cd player for weeks. There's one song on that comp though that's really really bad, don't remember the bands name now and I'm too lazy to look it up. But yeah TJSA rules. It's funny how many of my favourite bands from the 90s come from Columbus.    

I bought mine at a record swap at the Epicenter Zone in SF from a guy named Roger who put out that Insults LP and The Mad 12"....was it Brain Transplant Records?

He also did that Bobby Soxx and the Teenage Queers LP.

[Dan Celebrity]

Found an old mid-90's CMJ Magazine that had a blurb about TJSA.  Of course I had no idea about them then, but wish I had.  I finally dug into their stuff a year or two ago and it's all quality stuff.  One of the best bands that I've found out about in recent years. 

I'd definitely love to see some vinyl of these things turn up or a singles collection or something.

[Mitch]

School me on Great Plains.  Required records by them?

[jonbenetsbody]

thomas jefferson slwave apartments discography:

monster truck 5/TJSA split 7" (Datapanik)
free 12" (Datapanik) (awesome!!! stuff)
some compuilation tracks on Bumped by Karaoke (Datapanik)
siltbreeze 7"
"bait and switch" lp (onion/american)
promo 7" (onion/american)
split 7" w/ Fat Day (ratfish)
Bag of Hammers 7"
Siltbreeze 7"
Straight to Video CD (rockathon)

... i am sure i am missing some comp stuff.

They were always a great band, saw them at one of the Anyways fests.  Always funny seeing Ron House plowing down the street on his way to Used Kids with a cooler of beer and a black and white television.

essential great plains rekkid:
Naked at the Buy, Sell, and Trade LP (Homestead)

[LauraB]

Wow ... I had no idea that anyone, aside from me and the handful of Columbus-music obsessives that I hang out with, liked TJSA and all things Ron House as much as I do!  This is awesome to me.
I actually didn't realize until very recently that this label/website exists, I think Paul Nini, who was in Great Plains and other Cbus bands, runs it:

http://www.old3c.com/home.html

They have "You Lookin' for Treble?" that CD collection of early TJSA stuff I mentioned on the Motards thread, the 2 CD Great Plains set called "The Length of Growth--'81-'89" and lots of other Ron House-related releases.

TJSA are namedropped in that douchbag bible "A Heartbreaking Work ..."  Are you serious?  Ewwww.  I haven't read that thing, but I know I hate it already.

[Scrod Prickknee]

I'm from Indiana and all, but do other people actually like the Gynecologists?

Cyrus does. If I'm not mistaken, one of his bands does/did a cover or wants to....and he has their demo & made me a copy.

[DJ Rick]

Wow ... I had no idea that anyone, aside from me and the handful of Columbus-music obsessives that I hang out with, liked TJSA and all things Ron House as much as I do!  This is awesome to me.

In the KDVS new vols class, even before TNV and Psychedelic Horseshit became favorites, we included the lesson of Ohio as a center of regionally distinct music before, during, and since the punk heyday, and the lesson has always explained that when the Eels were banished from Cleveland, they took terrorizing Columbus, and certain very stridently individualistic, philosophically untouchable beacons developed, and we mention Ron House by name in this lesson.