Actually, I used to own "Downward Spiral" and "Pretty Hate Machine." Wasn't too impressed. Sold 'em to someone.

Shut up, Trent.

I buy whatever gets an 8.0 on Pitchfork and spend the rest of the day trying to suck my own nipples.

I check Ho-Ohs all day long. You should know that they holla back at me, too.

Is that one of those old-timey diseases, like dropsy?

Now that's a theory. I believe it's also one of the albums least likely to be killed by drunk hunters, in or out of season.

Not if you were twelve years old and lived in Westchester County.

Oh, yikes. Bonus points if you're Jewish.

True, but apparently Spicer actually had a background in the field that he was asked to work in. In this administration, that's kind of a point in his favor.

Username/comment synergy grade: A fucking +.

The late eighties, at least in mainstream terms, were a goddamn cultural wasteland. All the biggest bullies at my school thought that Guns'n'Roses were the tits. Also, junior high was all New Kids, all the time. And that's not even getting to Mssrs. Hammer and Ice.

Apparently R.E.M.'s "Monster" rules supreme at the used CD store, but I don't think it's such a bad album.

Overfamiliarity breeds contempt.

One of mine gave me a vinyl of Up With People when I graduated. Eighties era, mind you. You can't really say this about a record, but it looked unlistenable.

Ouch! Quite possibly worse than Frank Stallone's album.

I owned the Spin Doctors and Blind Melon albums. And NOFX, before Fat Mike revealed himself to be a larger-than-average asshole. And a bunch of junk from Fat Wreck Chords. And CRASS.

I'm up after my weekly "I'm finally done" sleep-a-thon." Now let's see if I can get to bed at a reasonable time. Prognosis: not good.

Honestly, my guess is that LiveNation had to wait for the ruling on the cause of death before figuring out where they stood financially vis-a-vis their insurance so they could officially call things off. It's not that anybody thought that they'd play these dates, but now it's official.

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Avatar/comment synergy, sadly.