And them discs are COLD, baby, COLD!
I’ve yacked about this Kamikaze Refrigerators record before and a few years ago made the mp3 download available thru CD Baby and iTunes, and posted the initial YouTube video to promote it. Now there’s a new video informing folks that I finally got around to making the (at least) 130 ORIGINAL VINYL PRESSINGS of the LP available at my No Auditions website—something that took me a long time due to my well-meaning, independent, inefficient DIY principles. A man’s gotta stand up (or just lay down and say “fuck it”) for such undone activity.
Question: Why should self-respecting vinyl junkies consider this recording rare or collectible? I guess because it’s from the early 1980’s badass Austin, TX punky rocky era that misguided music fans think is somewhat… special. Although, what would I know about it? All I ever did was send the band’s low-fi cassette recording to New Alliance for inclusion in the “Mighty Feeble” compilation; record a 4-track demo of them sometime before I recorded the 1983 8-track project whose master mix none of the “hip indie labels” thought was hip (or hardcore) enough for them to release in the mid-80s; then decided to release it on my own self-financed label just for the hell of believing it was worth it. It sold a few hundred copies, got respectable college radio airplay and some darn good fanzine reviews.
I think the surviving NON-REISSUED pressings will live a better life in a vinyl lover’s chilled Frigidaire than in my frostbitten basement. Maybe I’m right; maybe I’m wrong. You make the call. And check out the above video showing exactly what vinyl collectors should know about collecting.
dope stuff man. glad ur still active. love the descendents album(s?) u produced