thesexofit said:

oh, believe me...when i go to my local independant wrecka stow, they have the greatest selection and i can always find new stuff in the used section for cheep, and i thank my lucky stars that they're in walking distance (though i'm sure my checking account curses their existance ), but whenever i ask a question or even take something up to buy, i always get the most MURDEROUS looks, as if i'm sullying their precious establishment by daring to buy something that's not on the approved indie rock cred top ten du jour. just a few weeks ago i went in asking for the new saint etienne album (and they're not exactly ashlee simpson over here, ya know), and the counter person looked at me like i'd just raped her puppy.

when i'm excited about music that's obscure, i like sharing it with people. i like music because i think it's fun or good, not because it's obscure or some kind of badge of indie cred. life's too short for that nonsense.

nice thing about my local wrecka stow is that they seem to get used prince stuff in pretty regularly, and they don't appreciate any of it so they mark it down way, way, WAY low. i've been able to stock up on quite a few CD singles for my collection by getting stuff for like 1.99 a pop.

and they sell 'come' and 'chaos & disorder' for 2.99 used, too.

meanwhile, they're selling used copies of 'musicology' for 10.99 used, and they're even selling the free concert copies used for 6.99!

Oh and on a very tangentially related side note, I swear to god that I saw this guy in a restaurant on my drive home from Chicago when I saw you back in May.

you saw one of the death from above guys? (i'm just getting a red X in a box, but the image URL sez DFA1979) i think the one with the beard kinda looks like dave grohl.

Anxiety said:

I don't know for certain that it was him, cuz I didn't ask, but I swear it was.

And the picture I took from the Intonation link you posted.

i would tell him that their album cover design is one of my favorites ever. maybe not in my top five, but certainly in my top 20.

Anxiety said:

It is great. The music's not bad either. So you have one of their t-shirts?

Can't type for shit tonight edit.
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i like their album. it's not one of my favorites, but i like it. and yeah, i had to get a DFA1979 t-shirt.

Anxiety said:

Yeah. I think it's better and more interesting than most of what's going on in that dance-rock/new wave reviaval movement.

So why were folks giving you funny looks?

when i'm excited about music that's obscure, i like sharing it with people. i like music because i think it's fun or good, not because it's obscure or some kind of badge of indie cred. life's too short for that nonsense.

it doesn't sound like dance-rock to me. it just sounds like straight-forward, kinda hard rock with maybe some electronic stuff going on here and there. maybe i need to listen to it more.

and i have no idea why people were giving me funny looks. nobody at the festival was, of course - it was when we were out on michigan avenue later that night among all the suburban tourists that they were all looking sideways at the shirt. i guess they've never seen guys with elephant trunks before.

Well normally, they get filed under punk and hardcore. But it's a little too weird for that. They're known for the disco and dance-rock elements in their drumming. The bass and the singing are far too wild for that though. I don't know how to categorize them exactly, but I know they get lumped in a lot of times with that current batch of revivalist bands, however unfair.

I remember this thread.

thesexofit said: