A lesson in perspective, or, "Dance of Days" reconsidered

This is not okay because major corporations shouldn't be cashing in on the fame and notoriety of underground icons.


This is okay because a man who fought The Man through suburban hardcore music warfare is cashing in on his own fame and notoriety as an underground icon.

This is okay because an original band member and Dischord worker is selling it. From his personal punk archive. "Good luck finding another copy in such pristine condition." Thanks, Jeff Nelson!

Does the first press Minor Threat EP come with a "Pay no more than" stamp? I'm just wondering if the tragic irony of cashing in on the supposedly not-for-sale is as blatantly obvious as it seems.

Bonus points for the nonchalant doublespeak to remind everyone just who the seller was. Punk profiteering while riding the nostalgia wave produced a nice boost to the ol' self-esteem. Not to mention a significant overage on what that record normally fetches.

I guess this is growing up, right?

Lode/Load: April 26, 2009

It is a glorious place.


EP's:

RVIVR | Life Moves | Rumbletowne | Black

LP's:

Animal Collective | Sung Tongs | Fat Cat | Black 2xLP
Bat for Lashes | Fur and Gold | Echo | Black
Bat for Lashes | Two Suns | Echo | Black
Doomhawk | S/T | Rumbletowne | Black
Hurley, Michael | Armchair Boogie | Mississippi | Black
King Khan & The Shrines | What Is?! | Vice | Black 2xLP
Russell, Arthur | The World of Arthur Russell | Soul Jazz | Black 2xLP
St. Vincent | Marry Me | Beggars Banquet | Black
Tillis, Bishop Perry | In Times Like These.... | Mississippi | Black
V/A | Love is Love | Mississippi | Black

Lode/Load: April 19, 2009

Record Store Day has its uses, I suppose. It's still an industry farce, but I won't argue with discounts. I will be bummed for not picking up that copy of "Dear You," though.

EP's:

Comet Gain | Hate Soul b/w When You Come Back I'll Feel Like Jesus Coming Off the Cross | Kill Rock Stars | Black
Fresh & Onlys | I'll Tell You Everything & I Saw You Seeing Me | Dirty Knobby | Black

LP's:

Bird, Andrew | The Mysterious Production of Eggs | Grimsey | Black
Callahan, Bill | Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | Drag City | Black
Comet Gain | Beautiful Despair | What's Your Rupture? | Black
Comet Gain | Broken Record Prayers | What's Your Rupture? | Black 2xLP
Comet Gain | Tigertown Pictures | Kill Rock Stars | Black
DC Snipers | Missile Sunset | Dead Beat | Black
Green Day | Dookie | Reprise | Black
Human Mess | Follow You Home | No Way | White
Russell, Arthur | Love is Overtaking Me | Rough Trade | Black 2xLP
Russell, Arthur | The Sleeping Bag Sessions | Sleeping Bag/Traffic | Black 2xLP
Sacred Shock | You're Not With Us | Residue | Translucent Green
Sleeper Cell | S/T | Partners in Crime | Black
So Cow | S/T | Tic Tac Totally | Black
Thomas, Fred | Flood | Leroy St. Records | White | 41/320
V/A | Record Store Day 2009 Edition | Sony Music Entertainment | Black

Lode/Load: April 12, 2009

This is what you call a haul. I'm not quite sure what happened this weekend. And I didn't even get anything at Fest. But on that note: listen to The Body.


EP's:

Brilliant Colors | Highly Evolved | Captured Tracks | Black
Cheap Girls | Art of the Underground Single Series Vol. 39 | Art of the Underground | Black | 64/350
Comet Gain | Herbert Huncke Part I b/w No Spotlite on Sometimes | Germ of Youth | Black
Complaints | S/T | Youth Attack! | White
Dinosaur Jr. | Yer Son EP | Fat Possum | Black
Idle Times | Get Your Feet Off the Ground b/w Driving You Sad | Woodsist | Black
Mayfair Set | S/T | Captured Tracks | Black
Psyched to Die | Sterile Walls | Grave Mistake | Translucent Red
Q and Not U | Hot and Informed | Dischord | Translucent Yellow
Sick Mormons | S/T | Gummopunx/Demonomania/Angry Youth | Black
Social Circkle | Static Eyes | No Way | Yellow
Woods | S/T | Captured Tracks | Black
Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Zero | Interscope | Black
Ringers/Blotto | Split | Snuffy Smiles | Black

LP's:

1994! | Thank You Arms and Fingers | Inkblot | Cream
Beets | Spit in the Face of People Who Don't Want to Be Cool | Captured Tracks | Black
Bitters | Wooden Glove | Captured Tracks | Black
Blessure Grave | Learn to Love the Rope | Captured Tracks | Black
Brainworms | Swear to Me | Rorschach | Blue
Callahan, Bill | Woke on a Whaleheart | Drag City | Black
Cambridge Concept of Timothy Clover | A Harvard Square Affair | Capitol | Black
Chain and the Gang | Down With Liberty...Up With Chains! | K | Black
Crystal Antlers | Tentacles | Touch and Go | Black
Dinosaur Jr. | Beyond | Fat Possum | Black
Dinosaur Jr. | You're Living All Over Me | SST | Black
Drive Like Jehu | S/T| Cargo/Headhunter | Black
Embrace | S/T | Dischord | Translucent Red
Jay-Z | The Blueprint | Roc-A-Fella | Black 2xLP
Lungfish | Love is Love | Dischord | Black
Mirah | C'mon Miracle | K | Black
Mirah | Storageland | Yoyo | Black, One-Sided w/Etching
Mountain Goats | Nothing for Juice. | Ajax | Black
Ochs, Phil | All the News That's Fit to Sing | Elektra | Black
Ochs, Phil | Chords of Fame | A&M | Black 2xLP
Polvo | Celebrate the New Dark Age | Merge | Black
Q and Not U | No Kill No Beep Beep | Dischord | Translucent Yellow
Radio Faces | Party at the Bushwick Hotel | Art of the Underground | Black
Secret Mommy | Babies That Hunt | Orthlorng Musork | Black
Timberlake, Justin | Futuresex/Lovesounds | Zomba | Black 2xLP
Vile, Kurt | Constant Hitmaker | Woodsist | Black
Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It's Blitz! | Interscope | Black
V/A | Last Kind Words | Mississippi | Black

Lode/Load: April 5, 2009

EP's:

Black Clouds | S/T | Baby Doll | Black
Cheeky | Choke on a Cheeseburger | Freedom School | Black
Chickita | Karen Learns About Our Nation | 100% Breakfast | Black
Middle America | S/T | Home Invasion | Black
Nice Face | Mnemonic Device b/w Situation is Facing Utter Annihilation | Sacred Bones | Black
No Talk | Confusion b/w Outside World | Going Underground | Black
Slices | S/T | Home Invasion | Black

LP's:

Micachu | Jewellery | Rought Trade | Black
Nite Jewel | Good Evening | Gloriette | Black
Ringers | Detention Halls | Yo-Yo | Black
Vile, Kurt & the Violators | The Hunchback EP | Richie | Black
Waits, Tom | Blue Valentine | Asylum | Black
Waits, Tom | Small Change | Asylum | Black
Wavves | Wavvves | Fat Possum | Black
Wipers | Over the Edge | Jackpot | Black
Woods | Songs of Shame | Woodsist | Black