I am listening to some old cassettes that a friend leant me because I couldn’t find my copies. I mean who listens to cassettes anyways. Anyhow, the cassettes in question are bits and pieces of old material from the early Casa Recordings, where Damien Jurado and his friend Eben Haase would make cassette recordings over old tapes and sell them for a few bucks. I’m listening to Lo-Life #1, material from Damien himself. Go look over the old discography at the Damien Jurado website and bask in your failure at being a true fan, myself included. I also just found the Maremont Upstairs master that is Damien with a female singer, three songs that were going to be a 7″ like four years ago [It’s also not on the discography, but it exists, I swear.], but never happened. This all will be remedied to some extent. At some point, in the next three months/three years, there will be a limited vinyl only re-issue of the greatest/interesting hits of this material on btv. This is an unofficial statement that I can withdraw at any point due to failure for the actual release to materialize. Why is this happening? Because Damien wants to, I/we can, and it will make I/we/you smile, hopefully. Why do we have so many vinyl only releases? After weathering the flack of “Why are you called Burnt Toast Vinyl and only have a couple of vinyl releases?” question for quite a while, the tide changes, eh? Vinyl’s cool. You’re dumb if you don’t think so. It’s an objective fact. Get yourself a turntable. It will allow you to derive hours of pleasure, even if all you did was pillage your parents’ record collection(s). It’s late, I apologize for the harshness…
Johnathon from Unwed Sailor arrives tomorrow. He’ll stay for about a day before going back to Seattle after his many weeks in Europe. He was going to stay longer, but I got some bad ticketing information from the airline originally and wasn’t able to change the ticket as much as I thought.
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