I used to listen to this in high school while playing Doom 2 online with Geoff.

Nice, dude! I can't wait to hear it! I bought a couple gospel records myself over the last two weeks. The first one was okay but didn't have a lot of stuff I was keen on sampling, and I haven't gone through the second one yet.

I finally pulled the trigger on becoming a paid Cabbages subscriber a month or so back because he keeps turning me on to cool shit. I'll check out Hearing Things, too!

They're trying to install a dictator and this is what you ask? They don't care. This was part of their plan the whole time. Start meeting the moment.

For anyone actually reading this, you may have noticed that I didn't include commerce or promotion in my reasons. Those are certainly valid, but nothing I care about. My DIY mindset was forged in the crucible of 90s hardcore; I'm driven to do this until I can't, and I'll happily lose money doing so.

Finally, and probably mostly importantly, I put out physical releases because it's fucking cool. Having something I can hold and sit with the artwork, lyrics, and liner notes is fucking cool. Giving that experience to others is fucking cool. Being part of something bigger than myself? Fucking cool.

Releasing stuff physically makes me part of an ongoing conversation happening across generations. I've thought about this DJ Shadow clip for decades, and it's beautiful that someone can find and be moved by someone else's "broken dreams" in a totally different time & place.

youtu.be/1gpKYnRdf0A?...

Speaking of algorithms, digital is ephemeral. Your music on streaming services only lasts as long as those services are live and someone's paying the annual Distrokid bill. Once you're dead, that's probably it for your music. My shit will hopefully be haunting dollar bins long after I'm gone.

Holding the physical manifestation of something you poured your guts into making is enormously satisfying. It's a complete, finished work that you control every aspect of, and listeners encounter your music the way *you* want them to, not getting having it served piecemeal by some algorithm.

Your colleagues across the aisle have abandoned democracy and are openly trying to install a dictator. They don't care about people or due process. Only power.

His response to everything is talking about health care and/or begging for bipartisanship.

I've never heard the Smiths. I'm sure I've been places where a Smiths song was playing, but I didn't know it was a Smiths song. Even now that I can pull up every song they've ever made with zero effort, I don't care enough to do so.

DUDE.

REPUBLICANS ABANDONED DEMOCRACY AND ARE TRYING TO INSTALL A DICTATOR.

*That's* the story. Every time you guys beat around the bush with this shit brings their plan one step closer to fruition.

YOU NEED TO START MEETING THE MOMENT.

It's incredibly sad watching you send out your comms team several times a day to post about affordable health care when you should be in Chicago or Broadview right now fighting for not only your constituents—including the Dreamers you've spent decades advocating for—but American democracy itself.