Hello gentle readers. Let me now verbally assault you.
Sonic Therapy, long purveyors of laziness and shallow post-irony, are pretty much calling it quits. Chalk it up to mixed emotions, mixed messages, and overbearing careerist artists. And oh yes, the general difficulty of an independent record label run by someone who does not make music. And oh yes, the kids who are now pirating everything and making someone who makes $28k a year nervous drop $1k on a record when he could instead fix his credit and consider someday buying a house. That he can live in with his fantasy boyfriend. If it weren't for that repellent personality. So instead, that will be his bankroll to the World Series of Poker. Expect him(e) on TV next year.
So what? you say to yourself. Well, Fluoroscopic Kid will be pursuing other things with which I may help. Hell, he was the only one I could ever count on anyway. Jesse Sanford, aka One Piece, aka whatever - is a big fucknut who needs to quit the wake and bake and tune in to reality. Jason Garcia, aka Household Names - needs a big ego deflation. He may write great tunes, but that doesn't justify shitty behavior.
Again, who cares? you're asking - all this bitching and whining serves no purpose. Au contraire! I'm warning you of the following:
The Sonic Therapy website will be decommissioned within the next few months. The domain name will be expiring, we moved from dotcom anyway, etc. That and my webhosting company is run by fucking retards. (Hi Valcato! Fuck you!)
So if you want any of the mp3s or something, go DL them now. Some of those artists are long gone - Hollowman is impossible to find, amnd he was awesome...
Once the domain name is up, I will probably move the content over to valuecube.com as some sort of archive, but the heady days of Internet fame and music are coming to an end for STR.
So yeah, mailing things. It comes to my attention that people are actually doing Internet searches for Fluoroscopic Kid and Soft Drink Jihad, but are perhaps not finding what they need to know. Yes, I know, I need to update the site. But if you know of someone looking for STR 003 on vinyl so they can play the awesome Hekla's Bout out live or what have you, I have sold a bunch of copies to Wrecked Distribution.
http://rhinoplex.org/wrecked/viewitem.php?itemselect=6827
You can purchase it from them, encourage a store to carry it, whatever. I understand it's on the new Planet Mu compilation, but I wouldn't know for sure if it's out or not, since I've never seen any paper - green or white. Or a CD even. I'd accept payment in Joseph Nothing CDs if offered the option.
Oh, and one more thing (*black turtleneck, glasses just so*):
DJ Homeschool is actually getting more gigs now than he was when he wanted to be some sort of force in music. Maybe there's something to that hoary old Zen cliche of finding love when you're not looking for it. In either case, if you're in the DFW area (which apparently all the emo-looking IDM kids who go to Her Space Holiday shows and talk about Venetian Snares are, but none of them use the Internet), you can catch DJ Homeschool at the Black Dog in Fort Worth on October 30th.
Yeah.
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