talkinboutwillis

FUCKING JEFFO! YESSS

these dudes just put up another album track on their myspace. if anyones still on the fence, check it out. there are only a handfull of those splatter copies left! www.myspace.com/babyletmerun

soft machine is whats up! im glad to see some psych records popping up on here. i recently scored soft machine one with the movable parts cover for 20 bucks. amazing.

i actually just scored one about 8 or 9 years ago. traded my neighbor a big box of vintage star wars for bouncing souls argyle 7" good deal.

its in the latest issue of razorcake magazine. written by joe from don giovanni records. im dont think theres an online version.

so. im stupid and just made another thread about this.

yeah mad creative dude.

a friend of mine starting doing a music related blog recently. its relatively new, but really entertaining... and he chimed in on joe steinhardt's vinyl bubble article. since thats been such a hot topic on the board lately i thought i'd link it up. http://imustfindatlantis.blogspot.com/

oh yeah. hes the one doing the preorders. shit i didnt specify that! *note. preorders here!

pre-orders for these tomorrow. 4pm eastern. (test press contest) love you dudes. that is all.

my roomate used to work at a hotel. from what i gathered from his stories, it seemed like it may have been one of the most entertaining jobs ever. now granted im from jersey... but dude had stories of random truckers just coming to "hang out" in the hotel lobby, tons of prostitutes... who clearly used the hotel as a place of "business" and just random drunken and drugged up strangers with incredible stories. he always would tell me about this drawer they had that was sort of like a "lost and found" only it was basically filled up with weed, cocaine, and guns... as if they were going to give it back if someone came looking for it. anyway, i asked him why they wouldnt just report it and be done... and he tells me about an occasion where they found a gun in a room after the people checked out. the manager called the police, and the detective showed up to collect the weapon. when he took the gun away from the manager of the hotel... he aparently shot the dude in the leg... sending him to the hospital. haha man. i really need a job at a hotel.

as a guy who has done a label for long before the colored variant sensation hit, and also as a student of the early 90s punk scene where there was no so much of a widespread market for punk records... i have to say that in my opinion there are pros and cons to the "collectible" market. i mean first of all i have always appreciated the color version of a record. even back then when it was sort of an afterthought. when i started doing a label in around 1999 i always released a short run of a color version as the first bunch of copies sold... just because i could. also, i also always tried and still try to keep a diy element to all of my releases. i mean i loved getting those old inchworm and bloodlink records with the screened or stamped covers... just to know that there was an artistic element at work. even if it was by necessity it was not so much as a manufactured product where you sent it to the factory and they just stamped em out like potato chips. you brought it home and the love was in the paper or the manilla envelope or whatever... and you could always appreciate that some kid somewhere spend all his time, sweat, blood, and probably his last 20 bucks screening covers and photocopying the fuck out of some inserts... or in some case whole zines or booklets. maybe im detatched or old, but i will always find beauty in that. so in terms of the "rare screened covers" i think that shit is amazing. and its nothing new... its just saying "hey the shit doesnt have to all look the same" and embracing imperfections as part of the art. plus i think that connects with people on a higher level, and thats just always good. in terms of the mutliple variants at a time thing, and i am certainly guilty of this. i have said before to my own friends that its really similar to the cards and comics ordeal... and it is. the fact is there is a lot of hype driving up a lot of prices for sure. but i have to say that its been incredible to be able to see and explore the amazing shit that weve been able to do in terms of colored vinyl. i never thought i could see so many amazing color combinations... and in a way its just another form of saying that everything need not look the same. the more it can lean towards being a function piece of art the more i say go for it. the part that worries me is when the commodity become more important than the actual artist. ive been buying records for 16 or so years, and ive never bought a record for the purpose of not listening to it. ive never bought multiple copies that i didnt intend to give away or trade, but i do enjoy to have a rarer version of a record. im not sure why, and i dont really go to lenghts to aquire them mostly because i have way too many holes to fill in my collection of records that i dont actually have any copy of. but if i catch a rare version... good. my final thought is this. the punk community is huge now. i think anything that draws people together at this point is a good thing. and i think the collector market does that... so do labels and sites like this one. there are always going to be people with the intention of collecting as some sort of investment. but if the good dudes, the love and commitment to the culture is still here thats all that really matters in the long run. and like someone said before when the bottom drops out ill be glad to buy up the aftermath for very little money. but i will always be buying records... ive been doing it for so long. im pretty sure ive got the fever forever. and i still love it. and conversely i will be putting out records however long i can afford to do it, reguardless of how little amount i can sell. its more about the community to me, and giving back. returning the favor that so many kids losing money on labels have done for me before me. to me thats the shit thats important in the end.

yeah hes on a few tracks actually.

EDIE SEDGWICK - things are getting sinister and sinisterer. its fucking amazing. its on dischord. and it has a free download. do it!

barrie. youre really riding for this pink thing. haha.. i mean we can call it pink if you want. im down! attn everyone! scratch the red... hot pink!

yo yo yo... we finally got the let me run LPs in! so i figured i'd show off my horrible photography skills with some flicks! they look and sound excellent, and once again pirates press pulls off an amazing job with an impossible deadline. god i love those dudes! anyway here goes... cover deisgn by portland from NORA/FERRET RECORDS. (www.sonsofnero.com) printed inner sleeve clear wax w/ black and gold splatter. limited to 308... only available at shows / vinyl collective / and eventually whatever is leftover at devildancerecords.com. virgil should be putting these up shortly (next few days). you guys will have first crack at em. red wax (they look pink because of my flash) limited to 718... will be available at vinyl collective / revelation / no idea / very distro / interpunk... etc. if you want to help distribute these get in touch! anyway hope you guys are having an amazing holiday! thanks again for all the support. •mike/devildance records

yooo. go to that little lungs show. goood stuff!

oh yeah dark days rules too

yeah. co-sign 100%... great stuff

oh and also... the fugazi instrument dvd is sooo necessary.

here are two recent favorites 1. HENRY DARGER. IN THE REALM OF THE UNREAL: the late henry darger is a respected artist now... but during his tortured life he worked as a janitor, where he was secretly writing and painting a 15,000 page novel about a group of young girls with penises (they were called the vivan girls) that fought wars and went on grand adventures. no one found the book until he left his job at the hospital where he worked. they do a really good job at actually animating his paintings as they tell the story about the dude, and the novel he wrote. he actually kept statistics and death tolls for all the battles he wrote about too. really, really entertaining movie. im pretty sure this is where the vivian girls the band got their name too. 2. RESPECT YOURSELF. THE STAX RECORDS STORY: great movie about one of the great soul labels ever.

on the fourth the vivian girls are playing with the screaming females in new brunswick. its a house show... should be amazing.

hellbender/sleepasaurus

craigslist score... bad brains pay to cum... for FIFTY FUCKING CENTS! DAMN SON!