I’m aiming to ruin your day by showing you a video that very well will become stuck in your head. It may be funny at first but soon it will creep into your long term memory and you later will find yourself singing a song from this and hating yourself for doing so…
Why am I doing this? Because someone did it to me today and I still have the damn song stuck in my head.
Here is the one that is currently embedded in my head:
Enjoy!
Fat Wreck Chords founder and NOFX front man Fat Mike had a pretty sweet announcement last week:
Things I learned going to Ireland: Don’t order Bushmills in Dublin. Don’t order Jameson in Belfast. Don’t drink too much on the ferry, or too little, cuz either way, you will get sick.
Oh, this is the important news: the NOFX record comes out today. What’s more important is that it will be priced under $10 in every store in North America. This is not a sale. This is how much this CD costs, and not only that, but EVERY CD on Fat Wreck Chords will now be under $10 and most will be under $8.
No, we are not crazy. We just think that having a very low CD price is a fair way for scene supporting music fans to support their favorite independent bands and labels. Sound crazy? I think it sounds reasonable. We make less profit, but bands hopefully will sell more CDs to more people, which is why we started doing this in the first place.
Ok, I’m off the ferry now, but still seasick. I think this whole island might be floating.
Cheers,
Mike
If only everyone else out there in the music indrusty world would follow his lead…
How about some Fat Wreck Chord music videos???
The weather finally broke free of the evil cold chill the other day and boy did I take advantage of it.
I have an interesting work schedule so I have Thursdays and Fridays off. That my friends is my weekend and I made damn sure I was out doing things the entire time.
On Thursday I did the typical cleaning of the house and jammed out to some good tunes while doing so. I headed to Big Lots and picked up a receiver shelf I had my eye on for a while now so I could make my living room look less of a dorm room (I had 2 TV stands in there before – classy).
After putting the shelving unit together in one try I took my boys for a walk around the neighborhood and just soaked in the good weather.
That night I finally had the chance to meet up with Matt and pick up the records he so kindly purchased for me on Record Store Day while I was working. As a special thank you I brought him a gift, something he was looking for…
The vinyls he scored for me were awesome and I could not wait to get home and listen to them. I am not even sure if I am going to open a couple of them as they are collectors items for sure.
I also brought a box of old magazines and such from the 90’s I collected and later stored at my parent’s house. Matt had a smile that looked like he was opening J-Day presents when he starting going through all the back issues. I’ll let him explain why later.
After catching up for a bit and what not we headed to Angelo’s Pizza on Madison for some grub. If you are ever in the mood for pizza and find yourself on the west side of Cleveland I think it would be in your best interest to stop at this joint. We shared an amazing seafood pizza, which I might add intimidated me at first because I did not think it could be done. I have a new favorite pizza now. The crust alone is like eating breadsticks. I am serious about to call off work right now and head out there for lunch…
Friday I was the landscaper of sorts and mowed my lawn for the first time this year. I love having a lawnmower with a bag on it so I can just vacuum up all the leaves and sticks I missed cleaning up last month. After I did a so-so job I spent a few hours with these guys playing:
See that blue ball? Sweet Lou (the tan dog) is addicted to it. Seriously, I call it the crack ball because he is obsessive about it and will cry if he can not play with it. He chews on it like it is bubble gum and will try and bring it to you when he wants to play “ball”, but usually he grabs it and runs away when I reach for it. The good thing about “ball” is that it keeps his attention and he stays in my unfenced yard and I can do my thing around it without having to chain him up. The bad thing is trying to get him away from the “ball” when it is time to go in or what not.
After a couple hours of playing “ball” the infamous ((RAD))am stopped by and him and I headed out to go thrifting. It was a good day for thrifting and I scored a few select apparel items that will make me look super cool.
From there we swung back to my house to pick up a beautiful lady who just got home from class and headed for some Skyline Chili. It was the first thing I had ate all day and furthermore the last too. I stuffed myself silly.
The cutest girl on the block I had the pleasure of taking to lunch soon got called into her job so after lunch we headed back to the house and ((RAD))am split to go impress the ladies with his sweet Jeep. I just hung around the house and tried my best to get my record player working on my new receiver and finally discovered I need to buy a preamp…boo.
The weather was perfect and I know I got a lot more done than I listed here but I do not want to bore you.
Today sucks though… I have to work the next 5 days, 10 hour shifts. I am not looking forward to it but I am looking forward to next weekend when my friends Josh and Shannon come invade Ohio so we can caravan to a metal show. More on that later.
Until then, enjoy the weekend.
For those of you who can stomach my blog I am sure you might know I like the punk rock. I like to think of myself as an aging punk rocker who has a love for many other genres of music outside the punk rock.
I listen to mostly punk rock. In fact I actually have a beat up iPod that I only store punk rock music on it, and Wu Tang/ODB…
Where am I going with this?
Well I have two dogs and they are about as punk as I am…well maybe not. Regardless I found this fun site called Punk Rock Dogg that is for punk rockers like me who want punk stuff for their dogs.
They sell a lot of fun stuff on the site including matching shirts, sweet dog tags, and even collars. I have not gone as far as buying accessories yet but I did want to share with you all what I did buy…
Punk Rock Dogg’s Hardcore Cookies
Are you done laughing yet? Well besides the dog on the package looking like my Boston Terrier the cookies actually appeal to me not because they are “Punk Rock”, although that is awesome, but because they are made from 100% natural human food grade ingredients. Knowing that it is not some chemical treat loaded with preservatives and by-products is a good thing. I am sure my dogs could care less what they eat but the point is, I do.
At $6.00 a bag the price is a few bucks higher than Rachel Ray‘s Bacon Dog Biscotti or your standard Milk Bones but to me it is worth a shot seeing how they do mean a lot to me.
Just look at them:
I received an email this morning from my pals over at SolidPR I thought I would share with everyone. With Record Store Day being celebrated just this past weekend I felt this was a more than appropriate good read:
Pirates Press Announces Five-Year Anniversary!!!
The best stories are those that write themselves, when all the writer has to do is expressly write what they see (or in this case, see AND hear)… and all the reader has to do is envision their role. The story of vinyl records and especially its burgeoning resurgence is this type of story, and the proud leading role PIRATES PRESS has been playing in it is one as well. Their family of salespeople, production coordinators, project managers, and graphic designers have experience from all over the manufacturing, sales, and distribution industries and care deeply about the experience people have working with them.
Putting their customers ideas to life is the essence of Pirates Press’ true goal… helping artists, record label owners, and other entrepreneurs do what the market and industry are demanding of them to survive; bring collect-ability back. Helping create tangible products that reflect an artist’s visions in such a way that creates a real demand to purchase it (rather than download it) is important in an increasingly downloadable world that too-often looses the tangible dimension that once [financially] drove the industry.
Vinyl collecting has for generations been the baseball card of the non-jock (and even the occasional jock), and remained present in certain scenes and genres (underground for the most part) regardless of the pressures from the industry to exclusively digitalize. It was always that tangible element of vinyl in combination with the nostalgic sound and feeling you get from playing records which resonated with collectors through vinyl’s darkest moments. Now, when the digital world that everyone assumed would replace it entirely has brought such strain to the industry, vinyl and other creatively packaged albums sales have made a tremendous resurgence, once again giving people something their passionate about going out (or [ironically] going online) and buying. Pirates press believes that the sky is the limit at this point for vinyl and other types of creatively packaged music and ideas, and we’ll continue doing everything in our power to bring our customers there in as powerful and prominent of a way as possible!
Pirates Press Statistics in the last three years:
– 680,000 records produced in 2006
– 1,100,000 records produced in 2007
– 1,750,000 records produced in 2008High Profile Projects: Spiderman3, MyChemicalRomance, Beck’s “Odelay” Deluxe 4LP Package, AgainstMe!, The Dark Knight, Madonna’s “Hard Candy” & a slew of singles, Talib Kweli, Brian Posehn&Lewis Black&PattonOswalt, Pulling Teeth (Holographic Record Jacket), Murder By Death 16pp Foldout, Bob Marley Boxset, Isis Boxset, The Watchmen, All the WBR Singles, & Much More…
High Profile Customers: Warner Brothers Records, Reprise, Sire, Atlantic, Original Recordings Group, Relapse, Robotic Empire, HydraHead, Deathwish Inc., Troubleman Unlimited, Anticon Records, Temporary Residence, Suburban Home & Vinyl Collective, Southern Lord Records, Tank Crimes, Chunksaah Records, Fat Wreck Chords, Vagrant Records, Slumberland Records, & Many More…
Pirates Press Unique products include: Gatefold Jackets, Tip-On (casewrapped) Jackets, Boxsets, 5th and 6th Color Printing, Foil Stamping, Embossing, Spot Gloss and other special finishes, Insertion of CDs/Digital Download Cards into the vinyl, BIG Posters, Slipmats, Stickers and other Merch, Unique Types of Colored Vinyl, Limited VERSIONS to create immediate collect-ability! Looking to the future, we’re also working to redevelop the technology to make flexidiscs, as well as new technology, a multiformat CD/DVD/Vinyl Disc, Shaped Records and Picture Discs as well as diecut shapes of vinyl pressed directly into the records. Lots in store in 2009 and beyond!
Props to Pirate Press for staying in the game for five years now! As a vinyl collector myself I think it is great this company is doing better and better every year. I can only blame them some for helping empty my wallet as more releases come out in the future, but I am ok with that.
