Comments on: Merge Records’ Welcome Entry Into The Digital-Music Fray

By: tristax

tristax — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:19:27 +0000

By: ninety_nine

ninety_nine — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:35:58 +0000

I could do with another version of The Gusher live, but excepting "Heavy Metal Trouble Girl" (which is an early take of "I Hate Candy") and "The Gap in My Education" there isn't anything here that's new from the 'Chop.

But if you are looking for rarities, I have some of (they were supposed to do every show like Pearl Jam, but I never met anyone obsessive enough to confirm this) the tour CD's the did a couple years back (Pet Sounds Suck, the US and GB versions of Treasure Chest of the Enemy, tho they are just about identical, Mono and Succulence). Since it looks like they never will sell these, I'd be happy to send some files to someone who would really appreciate 'You Masculine You' live. There's a lot of overlap (most of them are around the It's a Woman tour), but if you don't have Treasure Chest, you really should. It's a basically a full, unreleased album (that's where The Gettysburg Address from Decline came from).

Maura should know my email address if you want.

By: rogerniner

rogerniner — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:16:07 +0000

Yes, they have The Third Eye Foundation! I can finally complete my collection! Yay, Merge!

By: CloudCarrier

CloudCarrier — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:10:42 +0000

That Mark Robinson MRG100 anniversary-style remix ep was always one of my favorites. Thank you, internet!

By: Captain Wrong

Captain Wrong — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:57:14 +0000

@noamjamski: Or you can just sign up to eMusic and get a lot of this stuff for about 30 cents a track. Sorry, I don't think $9 for mp3s is reasonable, but different strokes, different folks.

By: dreamsneverend

dreamsneverend — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:05:39 +0000

Merge just needs to be a bit nicer to us club VJs who’d love to give their bands more VISUAL play. They seem to think we don’t exist…. :(

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:51:02 +0000

@okiedoke: If it were up to me, you'd be banned for that sort of comment, sir.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:48:10 +0000

Seems like as good a reason as any to listen to Eric Bachmann side projects all day. Unemployment, huzzah!!!

By: okiedoke

okiedoke — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:07:54 +0000

Lasmbchop had a solo career separate from Shari Lewis? That’s news!

By: noamjamski

noamjamski — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:07:18 +0000

WOW Just took a peek over. Not only is the selection amazing, the prices are very reasonable.

LPs at about 9 bucks MP3, Singles and EPs between 3-5 bucks.

I'm probably going to pick me up some digital Polvo later.