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That’s right, a mixtape download. From Invisible Oranges (via the internet infamous Sergeant D of Metal Inquisition / StuffYouWillHate). Right now I’ve got this thing playing on my old laptop I use for backup and it sounds awful on these speakers. It’s best on headphone with some decent bass response; a fantastic soundtrack for cleaning toilets (more than likely inspiration for many of these bands.) That’s how it gets on my realworld listening list, the only way a digital album can at the moment. A good comp is as good as an album to me and a well-thought out mixtape is as good as real comp—they have potential to be even better than real comps, with no commercial or label concerns. And I’m pretty slow getting on the digital train but being able to make a mixtape that sounds as good as the original CDs (under the right circumstances, and no, none of this came out on vinyl and yes my ears are probably ruined) …well, it’s exciting to me.

Plus, of course, I don’t want these song titles stinking up my last.fm charts. I think extremes in art are always defensible and much of this music is stylistically ground-breaking and technically astounding. But I’m a grown goddamn man. Even if I was 14 again, I would hesitate to broadcast the content of these records and back then I thought Deicide were making valid points about religion and Cannibal Corpse was being funny. These guys, I dunno what their deal is exactly. I don’t feel plugged into to it enough to say “these guys don’t actually want to kill people”. Like, a Cannibal Corpse t-shirt is gonna freak out some squares which is awesome, I love that aesthetic and attitude, but these guys are on some next level with some of this artwork. I’m ok on this level right here, where I will not post it. But I’ve got this thing on set up to repeat on Windows Media Player (which i never use but nothing else is set up on this other machine) just displaying the album art because I’d rather not even look at the song titles and uh, whatever, I guess is what I’m trying to say here. I believe there’s a certain segment of the internet population that uses last.fm primarily to transmit song titles at people, but I’m a believer in the pure sonic experience, my primary exposure being late-night college radio. I didn’t have a lot friends back then into the extreme stuff…

It’s…all clear to me now. All this time it was having friends holding me back from superior musical taste! What with their “fun” and “hanging out” and “having meaningful and sexually fulfilling relationships”. Bah! Try and stop me now! I can listen to whatever I want! Haha!
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