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Glow in the Dark sold out already.
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http://store.brokenworldmedia.com/products/552445-rozwell-kid-twiabp-fourteen-minute-mile-7 This is up for sale now.
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does anyone know when the pre-order goes up tomorrow?
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Sure, but calling something racist because darkness is bad is idiotic, and the same goes for calling out films for sticking to source material.
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Found it: http://theworldisabeautifulplace.com/post/101277238581/i-became-sad-when-i-realized-shoppers-beef-is Anonymous asked: I became sad when I realized Shoppers Beef is actually about Chris Z taking a blatant jab at the band Shoppers. I feel like he is mean for doing that “ I have no beef with Meredith from Perfect Pussy (formerly of Shoppers) who wrote the line “you cannot defeat the darkness you can only be the light”, I think she is a phenomenal writer and musician. The line was at the top of the liner notes Silver Year and it really bothered me when I saw it first. It bothered me because I think the constant motif of light being good and dark being bad has a widespread impact particularly in our White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy (to borrow a phrase from bell hooks). When casting directors actively exclude People of Color from films like the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings so a bunch of light-skinned folks can win wars against darker skinned people there is a problem. This isn’t an isolated incident (for another recent example see Guardians of the Galaxy), and that’s in fucking made up worlds! They can be diverse and avoid all this bullshit but they don’t and in fact in that case actively created that dichotomy. Light as good/dark as bad is taken for granted as a truth in our society and that’s what my beef is with. All that however derailed me from looking more into the song the line is from, which is about an abusive relationship. Abuse happens in punk communities and needs to be talked about and for me to co-opt a line about that feels shitty regardless of my intent. It is important that we as a culture don’t just accept the tenants of radicalism we espouse but actively embody them. I know I personally have so much work to do in wrestling with my privileges as a light-skinned Black person, and a Queer person who could pass as straight, as a cis man who is able bodied. The rhetoric around Joyce Manor and stage diving, the quick defense of perpetrators of assault under the guise of “good dude”ness, the white supremacy, transphobia, misogyny, they all exist under a bubble of “we aren’t like society”. If we aren’t, then why do we still embody so much of that which we apparently reject? So in short, this song is about feeling emotions for a person so deeply that you can only talk about them the way you talk about your favorite things, the same things that you find home in on your worst days. And long live Tumblr.” - chris z on Shoppers Beef
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Not a problem. It really turned me off of the band for a while. I'm looking for the post now.
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Uh, no, I meant that he believed the line, quoted from a Shoppers song, was racist. Because darkness = black and darkness is bad. I'm not calling it racist, I'm calling his interpretation of the lyrics stupid. It's on TWIABP's tumblr. He goes on to call the Lord of the Rings movies racist because there are no black people in them.
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Or cz just likes to talk out of his ass. Apparently in Shopper's Beef the line "you cannot defeat the darkness, you can only be the light" is racist and that's his problem with Shoppers.
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Best/Worst Customer Service from a Distro/Label?
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I did the same thing and hate myself already.
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What time do they usually put the April Fools stuff up for sale?
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What was the first record you ever bought?
ok. replied to Out of Breath Records's topic in Vinyl Collective Message Board
I bought a copy of AFI's Very Proud of Ya online four or five years ago. bought Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables from a local shop while I waited for it to be delivered. -
Record Store Day 2015 (4/18/15)
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Would anyone be able to pick me up a copy of Boys and Girls in America? I'll be home for break then and there are no stores near me. -
Definitely recommending that Churchkey tape to anyone and everyone