I think the phrase "ripped the shit" out of someone/ thing is still safe though. Thank heaven for small mercies etc.

Back OT (do you remember when people on the internet said that? Seems so quaint nowadays...) - I go through periods of not liking much, but I've always got a few staples to pull me out of it. Hank, Herb, Johann, Mark, Wartime jazz compilations and Western Soundtracks for a few days and I'm right as reign.

Really? Who the hell made those trashy graveyard man filmettes then?

I've been fasting for a month now. Silence is bliss.
Not true. I listened to the new Organs of Battle yesterday.

I know it's going to sound pricky, but I do think there's more of a sense that people like to get their money's worth from bought albums than a free download. I remember buying some absolutely shocking albums in my teenage years that I listened to loads rather than admit I didn't really like it (and anyone who remembers Salad knows precisely what I'm talking about).

Agreed. And you're always a prick, so no need to warn us that what you say might come off that way. That's why you remain one of my fav arseholes of the board... I will prob get shit for this, but I have gotten in a routine lately with a lot of new bands where I will d/l songs first and then usually be excited to go buy the entire album. It is a nice new-age luxury getting to sample stuff first. Not always great for the band, I know, but good for me.

I don't remember sald but I remember Billygoat.

supa suckitude

sampling tunes is great. especially if you do not have friends that can let you listen to something new.

I wouldn't mind if summer boycotted starting threads for some length of time.

i get sick of music sometimes, then i get a dose of jandek, some songs are the biggest ''fuck-you-to-everything'' ive ever heard..

Jandek rules.

I'm experiencing this myself, have been for the last 6 months or so. I brought it up in a thread by ZEROpumpkins a few days ago. I'm just not affected by any of the things I would normally rely on during slow periods.

Basically I'm just trying to ignore any notion that I'll never enjoy things again and that I've burned myself out and that things are hopeless, and put effort into thinking of this time as just really trying to figure out what I actually do like (I like demonrail666's comment about that, above), by stripping everything down and seeing what remains. Cut out the clutter and the filler!

To tell you the truth though, I've come across a small amount of NWA and Dead Prez (namely "sellin D.O.P.E." and Cop Shot) and I'm really, really loving it.

Actually, rap and hip hop are pretty foreign to me. If anyone can suggest some quality in that same vein, I'm all ears.