02/11/10
New On Columbus Discount...Guinea Worms, Psychedellic Horseshit
How are you all? Good to hear it, anyway, shut up friends. We've got two new releases for sale.
First off...
CDR055
Guinea Worms
Sorcererers of Madness (4rd Year in a Row!)
DOUBLE LP
For the past 10 or 12 years the Guinea Worms have been, in just about every way, the perfect rock band. They are loud and heavy and have a talent for playing songs that make the stupidest shit seem profound. They can also make normal shit seem gross and gross shit seem sexy. If you've ever experienced existential dread at the thought of hostess cupcakes, thought the B-52's Rock Lobster is a metaphor for premature ejaculation, or realized that for all their high falutin' art talk, 95% of DEV-O's songs are about Mark Mothersbaugh's foot fetish, you will understand the Worms. For us here in Columbus, OH they are the Ramones, Country Teasers, Budgie and Gary Glitter all rolled up into one creepy freakazoid package. I'm not sure what it says about CDR as an organization, but they've been one of our favorite bands for forever.
So, In early 2008, following the release of the 'Box of Records' single (the fastest selling record in CDR history), we asked Will Foster (the King Worm and Comper) for an LP, and he turned in 12 CD-R's. The vast majority of it was solid gold, it was all so good, in fact, that it took us about a year to get it pared down to 2 LP's. The end result is a mosaic portrait culling from over a decade worth of material in the Will Foster archive. It represents the Worms at various stages of intoxication/sobriety/Fall worship.
Anyway, Ladies and Germs, without further ado, the moment has arrived...
We are pleased to announce the long-anticipated debut album from the Guinea Worms...
22 songs, 2 LPs, & 82 epic minutes... Guinea Worms Sorcererers of Madness (4rd year in a Row!) has finally arrived.
Edition of 550, 100 sets on Pink/Orange, 450 sets on black. All in hand signed 2xLP gatefold sleeve w/ 5x7 photo.
2/24/10 - Sold Out!
2nd pressing coming in March
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Second on the for sale block is...
CDR061
Psychedelic Horseshit
Golden Oldies
LP
This is the second pressing of the Golden Oldies LP that Horseshit released themselves in 2009. We've picked up the pressing duties for this one, so from here on out, it's an official part of the CDR catalog. We're thrilled.
This is a comp of all of their early CD-R releases (paper singles, we called them). I remember before MTV2, or the term Shitgaze, or hi-lariously awesome Washington Post articles, drinking in Cafe Bourbon Street at the early PHS shows, Matt would walk around with a box of their latest 3 song CD-R, giving them out for free and nobody would take them. But, man they were great. Really brilliant. I got one and thought I'd heard the next Pere Ubu. I still think these dudes are on that level. This collection is the sound of a great band being born and getting greater.
Just so there is no confusion, THIS IS NOT A NEW PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT RELEASE. But if you missed this the first time around, grab it now.
First Edition of 500 on Waisted Vinyl
Second Edition of 400 on Columbus Discount
Prices w/ shipping are as follows...
USA - $15
Canada/Mexico - $17
Elsewhere - $25
Thanks!
CDR
01/21/10
New On Columbus Discount...Nudge Squidfish LP, Rot Shit 7"
We're finally on the other side of the winter holiday ghetto and we've got two,
count 'em, two new records from/for the production/consumption cycle.
So, let's get on with it, shall we?
CDR057
Nudge Squidfish
20,000 Leagues Under Nashville
LP
During a self-imposed exile in Nashville around 1985,frequent Quota and former "Peter Laughner" of the True Believers, Nudge Squidfish sent cassette transmissions back to his friends Mike Rep & Tommy Jay in Harrisburg, OH. From hours of cassettes Rep compiled this collection of psychedelic pop songs, synthisizer experiments, harmonic convergences, and fragments of his rock'n roll past that rival Mayo Thompson or Brian Wilson in complexity, pop sensibility, and authentic absurdity. Think we're talking it up? Well, Hey!... this IS the gem that launched Rep's storied cassette label, Old Age(/No Age). Upon Squid's return to Columbus, he would link up with the late Jim Shepard to form the legendary V-3.
Painstakingly mastered for vinyl by Mike Rep from the original cassette.
Edition of 500 LPs. 100 on gold/black marble vinyl with high-gloss full color sleves and insert.
CDR060
Rot Shit
You're Welcome
7"
Our favorite Pittsburgh-ers proclaim "2009: punk's finally dead" on this the final(?!) entry of the Rot Shit saga (other entries include: 2006's The Worst Kids Ever, and 2007's on Have You Scene Rot Shit(?!) on Fashionable Idiots). Do we dare call it 'mature' just because it has a free-jazz sax solo? NEVER! By the time the B-side rears its head, its 2010 and PUNK... has miraculuously returned(?!) It's about damn time I guess (?!)
Edition of 500 (?!). 100 on red vinyl. Pivotal lyric sheet insert and full-color sleeve.
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Combined Order Option
Nudge Squidfish - 20,000 Leagues Under Nashville - LP
&
Rot Shit - You're Welcome - 7"
All orders will ship between Friday and Monday. They should be at distros by late next week.
FANGS!
CDR
(the C stands for "Crisis of Confidence")
01/15/10
...and The CDR-SC-Y2! single for January is...
Jakob Olausson - "Cornered in your Circle" b/w "A Faded Picture (L+R)"
Our first international production! We knew that Jakob was a big fan of the what has been going on in our spot on the map over the past few decades (Mike Rep & The Quotas' "Mama Was a Schizo Daddy Was a Vegetable Man" seven-inch was released on Olausson's own label, Old Age/Sverige Age), and so we finally mustered the guts to ask
him if he'd be interested in taking part of the CDR-SC-Y2! The A-side"Cornered In Your Circle" is reminiscent of Jim Shepard's haunting Leonard Cohen covers from the 'Amsterdam' cassette, and the B-side is Jakob's tribute to the late Sky Saxon, a 7+ minute version of The Seeds classic "A Faded Picture" - pressed at 45 rpm with the song into two parts, panned dead left and right. So you play the side twice, one speaker at the time. In the words of Olausson himself "TRUE MONO!"
David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue) on Olausson's sole LP from 2006, 'Moonlight Farm':
"His songs cross endless tranced dirges with drones that are so lunar they illuminate the entire horizon and huge distorto-smears of backing vox that sound like tiny fists crushing the light from stars. Some of the instrumentals here are so evocatively conceived – beautifully reconciling handmade DIY traditions and higher-minded bliss – that they sound positively Japanese, with a track like “The Wind Combs Her Hair” almost passing for early Ché-SHIZU. But it’s the songs you’ll keep coming back too, elegiac teleports to the fringes of a whole other evocatively conceived universe, where every breath births reverberant shadows and the map of yr desires reads like a mirror of the constellations. From one loner to another, this is everything that the phrase ‘private press’ conjures up and more. A modern classic."
No Art. 400 on black vinyl.
12/16/09
...and The CDR-SC-Y2! single for December is...
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones - "Smuggler's Choice" b/w "Familiar Pop"
HBJO are one of those great bands that make music writers sound like big dummies.
These guys from Algoma, WI do an excellent job of leaving even the most learned
nose-picking record nerd with few options beyond naming off a big list of bands
and saying "they kind of sound like that, but not really" I'm not exempt from
this, so here is my list of bands...Bassholes, Neil Young, V3, shit, I even hear
some Wedding Present in there, but, hey, they don't really sound like any of those
bands.
The only conclusion I can come to as to why these dudes leave us at such a
loss is because they are just an excellent Rock band with little, if any pretense in
their music. These two songs are an excellent addition to their catalog, as fine as
anything they have done to date if not better.
Happy December.
Edition of 400 in 2 color screenprinted sleeves. B&W insert. 380 Red Vinyl, 20 Dark Red Vinyl w/ 3 color sleeves.
11/16/09
NEW on CDR - El Jesus De Magico KLIP AUGHT - 7"
Let's start with a re-cap of the discography of El Jesus De Magico. There's the crust punk rental
property destroying Scratch Acid-ish x-tendo jams of their first CD, and there's the underground
Taiwanese jungle kick boxing circuit bending chants of their last LP. There's the darker side of
Flying Nun indie by way of Skin Graft on their Unclean Ghost single and there's the AM radio conspiracy
theorist Kennedy family bad vibes occultism of their Funeral Home Sessions E.P. And now there's this...K
LIP AUGHT, their 3rd single and 5th release. This record swings from Spacemen 3 to Jesus and Mary Chain to
Dinosaur Jr to the Puddle to Mayo Thompson without a lot of effort. All of the weirdness distills into a single that hangs around in the neighborhood of their earlier singles. A tight pop music take on a thousand-million little bits of twenty-five years of underground music, all kind of run through the energy you get from recording and practicing around ghosts, corpses, milk crates full of fan club vinyl and pictures of obscure American Aristocrats in a downtown funeral home in Columbus, OH. This is another excellent single by a band that continues to build a remarkable and confounding discography.
An interesting side note about this record: it was recorded onto 1/4" 8-track at the bands funeral home practice
space, mixed to a 1/4" Ampex 2-track at Musicol Recording and the laquor for the record was cut from the master
tape with no digital delay in the mastering chain, making it the first totally analog recording we have released.
Edition of 500. 100 blue to yellow gradient, 400 black. All in unique, hand screen printed sleeves.
First 60 orders get colored vinyl unless you tell us to send black.
Prices w/ shipping is as follows...
USA - $6.50
Canada/Mexico - $7.50
Elsewhere - $11.50
All orders ship on Wednesday. Distros & stores should have 'em by the middle of next week or so.
Fangs!
CDR
11/05/09
NEW on CDR - BASSHOLES ...and without a name
Hello people. We've got an LP of all new BASSHOLES material ready to go and it is really great.
The blurb and pricing info are below.
BASSHOLES ...and without a name
There's always been a thick political streak in the Bassholes music. It's clever and usually pretty funny, with lots and lots of class injustice themes. Kind of a creepier Kurt Vonnegut with a thing for Takashi Miike movies. Don Howland, the brains behind the Bassholes once sang
"I hate the rich man, and I think I'd rather have roaches than a boss man telling me what the fuck to do." And that seemed pretty heavy 12 years ago, but it seems pretty quaint now, what with the rich unabashedly and uncerimoniously running this motherfucker into the dirt, and fast.
So, over the course of 2008/2009, the Bassholes came down to Columbus Discount Recording and cut "...and without a name." It is a full LP, a choice slab of all new Bassholes material, and it is a political record through and through, but there ain't nothing funny about it. This record is angry. Angrier and meaner than any record the Bassholes have ever done by about a mile. I'm talking (Crass's) "Yes Sir, I Will" angry.
Broad axioms like "A rich man can't ever get to heaven" have been replaced with brutally specific lines like "The car bomb in my backseat lit up the sky, a wonderful Sunday to die" and "Money's worthless, spend it, lend it." And it kind of goes on like that. Don spends this record spitting seething bile and hopeless frustration, the likes of which I've never heard.
They are playing hard and fast to match. Bim Thomas, long time drummer for the Bassholes and This Moment In Black History, rips through this record. Like, totally fucking rips through it. He turns in what might be the most thoughtful and well executed mix of hardcore/punk/blues/rock and roll drumming recorded in the last decade. It's not surprising, Bim is one of underground rock and roll's great drummers, and he's killing this one.
This is the Bassholes at the most deranged they have ever been. Might be the first great record of the second great depression. It is our honor to present the newest Bassholes record "...and without a name".
Edition of 500 LPs in full color jackets
Prices w/ shipping is as follows...
USA - $13.50
Canada/Mexico - $15.50
Elsewhere - $25.00
All orders ship Friday or Monday. Distros & stores should have 'em by the middle of next week or so.
Stanks!
CDR
11/05/09
...and The CDR-SC-Y2! single for November is...
Necropolis - "Love Theme from Necropolis" b/w "No Tongue, No Talking"
Returning to the tapedeck for the first time following a near two-year s
elf-imposed exile from recording may have taken a little bit of arm-twisting,
but all efforts were worth it in the end as we what was captured was two of their
finest - easily recognizable to those who have been fortunate enough to catch one of
their ncreasingly rare shows. The band quotes Columbus legends Gaunt as the muse here,
but they've been saying that for years, what we have here is a scorching race to the
finish - fractured, melodic, explosive and inebriated postpunk.
10/12/09
End CDRSCY1! - Begin CDRSCY2!
Like it says up there, that's it for the first year of the CDR singles club. Thanks a ton to all the subscribers.
We hope everybody had as much of a blast getting these records as we did putting 'em out.
The final installment of CDRSCY1! Is Psychedelic Horseshit - Too Many Hits. It is in 2x7"
format and has 10 songs. It is, in a lot of ways the follow up to Magic Flowers Droned.
Each gatefold sleeve is hand signed w/ the subscribers name... the whole nine yards.
We really pulled out all the stops on this one to have a great finale to the CDRSCY1! Singles club.
But don't be too sad dudes, CDRSCY2! hath begun.
The first installment of CDRSCY2! is from Toledo, Ohio's Puffy Areolas.
The Puffies holed up in the CDR recording bunker late this past spring in
order to record their debut Siltbreeze lp. We stood in the corner, wringing
our hands in an evil fashion, biding our time until they finished recording,
then we stole the best two songs. "Lutzko Lives" is a repetitious, frenetic
rager that comes across as a captial-P Punk take on Funhouse-era Stooges or
Lemmy-era Hawkwind. "Bowel Movement (It's All About) Featuring Raven" is the boys
backing up Raven (Back to Ohio Blues Raven) on a psych blues suicide jam-ode to shitting. yup.
Welcome to CDRSCY2
Last year, we felt like the scrips went too fast and not everybody that wanted one got one, so we're pressing up 400 scrips to sell this year.
We've got about 50 scrips of year two left to sell, so this is probably last call if you wanna get one.
The link for purchase is below...
CDRSCY2! link
8/18/09
CDR Singles Club Year Two (CDRSCY2!)
We here at Columbus Discount Records are pleased as we could be to announce CDRSCY2!
That's right, the goons that brung you the winner of last year's "Grand Champion Singles
Club of The World" award* have decided, once again, that spending time with their loved ones,
having anything resembling free time, or getting a full night's sleep without waking up in a
cold sweat panicking about pressing plant deadlines and missing parcels is no comparison to the
joy and fun that you told us you get from our record o' the month club.
Here's the list of records (in no particular order) you'll get if you subscribe!
Bassholes
Electric Bunnies
Deathly Fighter
Tyvek
Dead Clodettes
Outer Spacist
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones
Cheveu
Puffy Areolas
Jakob Olausson
Necropolis
Harrisburg Players, Vol. 2
Oh, and one of those records (we ain't sayin' which) is gonna be a 12" single instead of a 7" and there could always be more spooktacular surprises in store.** This time, there will be a total of 400 subscriptions available and the first record will ship in October, the month after CDRSCY1! is complete.
Below, you will have find pricing information and a link to paypal buttons so that you can subscribe to the thing. Feel free to write us at info at columbusdiscountrecords dot com with any questions.
Fangs!
Columbus Discount Records
More information / purchase info is at the link below...
CDRSCY2! link
*not real
**suprises are often scary and not always pleasant
8/24/09
El Jesus De Magico - Scalping the Guru - Back In Stock
We've finally got the re-press of CDR038 - El Jesus de Magico
"Scalping the Guru" back from the presses.
They come with the same, beautiful hand screen printed covers as the first edition.
We did another run of 300, we're selling 150 of them mail order, so get-em while you can.