your point is correct. i am old as shit. (but when they all became gamestops, they all became lousy.)

tell 'em, bimmie

i hate this kind of set…
because who is it for? i mean, i like metallica, i have most of their material, even the shitty stuff, so what am i getting here? am i going to drop full price for whatever handful of bonus tracks? probably not. but then, if i'm a twelve-year-old just getting into the band cause i heard…

how 'bout 'a national acrobat'?

One of the craziest details of Jim Walsh's oral history of the Mats is that Prince and Westerberg were at the same high school (Minneapolis Central I think) at the same time. Which is pretty staggering to contemplate. (Partly just because while it's not that hard to imagine Westerberg as a gawky teenager, imagining…

Missing tracks
It's surprising how much good stuff they left off those reissues. There's a Pleased to Meet Me demo called PO Box that's never been officially released, and it's just classic Replacements, and more energizing/vital than most of the last two albums. You'd think it'd be worthy of release, but I guess…