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Sometimes cases can be label-specific... I'm holding my original Slayer "Reign In Blood" cassette right now, and the Warner Bros. logo is imprinted in the plastic. You could replace it with another Warner Bros. case, but if you have a buyer who is truly looking for the original item, it would be important to them to have that original case. Not everyone breaks their cases...many people have taken great care through the decades to preserve the original retail item as it came out of the shrink wrap. Another example would be Living Colour's "Stain". The original case is transparent red plastic. Break this and replace it with a generic clear case, and you've greatly impacted the original nature of the item. I guess none of this is worth worrying about too much, but it's flippant to dismiss cassette cases as being as interchangeable as record sleeves.

PURCHASE HERE It's easy to call the serial killer-obsessed PE angle "played-out" or "cliche", but when someone does it RIGHT, it can still resonate with as much impact as the first creepers who dabbled in the subject. Doper (Rape-X) and Whorid have done it RIGHT with "The Meaning Of Sorry". Beginning with a sample of Charles Manson discussing what the fuck "sorry" even means, and whether or not he should feel "sorry" for anything at all, considering his upbringing, the album serves as another tired celebration of serial killer dork culture and more as an exploration of the idea that these men (Manson, Lucas, Rader, Dahmer, etc.) are seriously damaged people, damaged by the American "justice" system, damaged by their families. Sexual abuse, torture, murder and betrayal were part of their lives long before they first decided to commit murder. This isn't victim-blaming or downplaying what these men did and how they ruined other lives, but our world is never black/white, and "The Meaning Of Sorry" explores more of the grey slush we all trudge through every day. This set includes: - a c34 of "The Meaning Of Sorry", dubbed one-at-a-time, on a transparent green cassette with a white title label and an eight-panel j-card with photos of the killers as children on one side, and personal, alarmingly typical family photos of Dennis Rader on the other. - a paperback true-crime book to help further illuminate how these murders and murderers and victims are exploited. Any one of these books could be reduced to a few pages of testimony...the rest is always meant to sell more books, film rights, etc. The truth is often bland and up for discussion. Filling in the blanks is not an admirable career, nor is using tragedy to project your own moral and ethical leanings. - a laminated bookmark featuring self-portraits by Dennis Rader. A tasteless bonus item because this is a tasteless world, and you need something to hold your place while reading these garbage books. - a handmade mixed-media collage/art object created by Levi Jacob Bailey using scraps produced during the printing of the j-cards. Everything comes in a pink mesh bag, because the black and white packages these "demons" usually receive prove pretty rootless once you get these men crying. Price includes shipping. This is a limited-edition release: there will only be 10 copies available to the public. When they're gone, they're gone. LISTEN HERE PURCHASE HERE