Just wanted to let you all know that I posted a still sealed copy of Devil In The Shortwave up on ebay.

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i have this on cassette if anybody's interested.

only........

$6.66!!!!!

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hey mike, i'll trade you that for hot garden stomp on cd. let me know if you're interested.

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already got hgs on cd.

rip it onto vinyl and you got a deal.

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Anyone interested in a wax cylinder copy of AHWT? Contains bonus track of JD coughing.

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Anyone interested in a wax cylinder copy of AHWT? Contains bonus track of JD coughing.

I have an extra. I'll trade you that and West Texas Orphans on cassette for a teal HaFG vinyl and Eugene Sue.

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ah man, you have a teal?

i got the widely released zebra stripe HAFG that came with a slice of unicorn horn.

it's so not collectible it makes me sick.

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You know how JD said that he was going to keep the copy of tLotWtC that came with a real live Slowbro?
Someone might've intercepted the package on the way to his house. Not gonna say anything more here, but suffice to say I'll be checking my PMs.

pokey man eats garbage!

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Well I have On Juhu Beach on 78 so I'm not sweating about it either...

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dood, i have the juhu beach 78 recorded on cassette at 33 1/3 rpms. it's like, indie sabbath.

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You're not really a collector until you have John's original wire recordings (before the boom box) when he went by the name Hungry Reggae.

People who are really in the know only listen to wire recordings because they have a much warmer sound even than vinyl (duh? like wherehaveYOUbeen?).

I know you don't believe I have that stuff since like NOBODY does, but here's a picture for you all to drool over:



Yeah, that's right, I have every single 7 foot, even the ones John only gave out to his dearest friends and told them to take the wire cutters to after they listened to it once.

Also, this was clearly the peak of John's greatness, before any of the nonsense of actually TRYING to write songs. We all know the best art is made by people who know how to pick the most obscure recording medium, not the people who've wasted time honing their chops!

I know everyone says he mumbled instead of singing back then and that he really had no business on the zither since he didn't know how to play it, but I think they are ignoring the fact that he played ZITHER. Isn't that like the coolest thing ever?

A tip for you n00bs though... those songs labeled as "Hungry Reggae" floating around on soulseek are actually just Jandek's album Six and Six with the tags changed. Really fans of John Darnielle's REAL work would know this cause they'd know he never wrote a song called "Pringle's & Bean Dip". (It's actually the song "Wild Strawberries" btw)

My favorite track by far of all the Hungry Reggae stuff is probably "Evander Holyfield is My Savior". Close second would probably be "Kill Whitey!!!!! (I'm Looking at You Doublemint Twins!)". He was sued for using trademarked stuff in that title, which a lot of people don't know is why he kills any white person who says the words "double" and "mint" in the same sentence.

So yeah, don't talk to me until you have, at the very least, Songs About Cows Volumes 3 thru 26. If you're wondering about one and two, you obviously know nothing because they don't exist.

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...and that day was marked as the definitive beginning of simonfox's break with reality.

I broke reality?

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you pretty much won this thread for all time.

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we can shut the forums down now and consider this place a success.

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That was beautiful.

i would like to inquire you about this cassette

Unless you get the wire recordings, your life will never be fully complete.

If anyone can help me track down the Zopilote Machine picocassette it would be much appreciated.

There was only one.

It was lost for many years, then finally discovered hidden behind a wall, in an apartment in the 18e arrondissement of Paris by a young girl named Simone. Feeling the power of The Picocassette rush through her body, and realizing it's magic to sway people's thoughts and change their emotions, she thought first to use it to climb her way up the political ladder, and bring peace to all of France, peace like none had seen since the Great Facebook Wars of 2013. Then, in a moment of lucidity, she realized that The Cassette's powers were of great evil, and decided to throw it in the river Siene.

As she ran through the streets, to the banks of the Siene, the Keepers of The Tape felt the power of The Tape once again, power they had not felt for decades. They awoke, and rushed after young Simone. She ran, ran as fast as she could, remembering the legends of the Keepers of The Tape, and of how they were evil men who would stop at nothing to use the power of The Tape, even if it meant the destruction of all mankind. As she neared the precipice of the Siene, they were right on her heels. She knew that even if she destroyed The Tape, they would still kill her, and it would be a terrible death. Knowing this, she hurled herself into the Siene, clutching The Tape, and hoping that in death she could keep it's powers from ever bringing darkness to the world.

Many years passed. The Keepers of The Tape were long gone and forgotten, and even young Simone, the doe eyed girl who saved humanity, was herself forgotten. However, The Tape was not. It's memory remained, seared into the collective consciousness of humanity, in glints and whispers of a time long passed. The Siene was drained in the year 2371, as a humanitarian aid measure to supply aid to a war-torn United States of New Canada. At the bottom of the river bed, near the right bank, in the 18e arrondissement, a human skeleton was found. No one gave it much mind, at first. Paris is a city almost as old as humanity itself, and as the Siene was being drained, many things were found. Small boats, coins, money, jewelrey, weapons, bottles, cans, and the odd skeleton here and there. All human remains were catalouged, as a matter of course, to be properly buried later. This one, however, was catalouged as holding a "small clear acrylate polymer case, containing an archaic sound reproduction format, possibly dating to the late 1980s".

An archaeologist on the team, Dr. Vaerst, who was in charge of catalouging the remains read the report, and remembered stories and whispers of The Tape. He had always felt that they were not just tales, but that there was a ring of truth to them. Upon examination of the remains, and confering with several of his closest friends and colleauges, they identified the tape as genuine. Young Simone had protected The Tape, even in death, for nearly 357 years.

It was then decided that they had a mission to complete. Poor Simone couldn't destroy The Tape, but they had to carry on with her task of destroying it, even if it destroyed them. Legend spoke of The Tape being forged in the molten plastic of Mount Memorex, far across the silicon fields of Taiwan. It would surely be a long and arduous journey.

However, The Tape can be destroyed by any common laboratory blowtorch, and need not be taken back to it's source to be destroyed. Kind of a faulty mechanism, if you ask me, but I didn't make the damn thing. So, Dr. Vaerst and his friends torched the sucker, and brought peace to the whole planet. A monument was erected to Simone in the dry bed of the Old Siene, and the wars ended in the United States of New Canada. Oh, and they had cookies.

So, long story short, there was one, but there isn't anymore, because it was evil.



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Though Public Enemy is most well known for it, The Coroner's Gambit had a small release on zip disk, 200 copies. Still the second most popular zip disk album.

I'll post pics when I get home.

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