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D. Sawyr
@sawyr.xyz
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Delilah has good things to say about the new Dimitriam record which you can buy or also maybe steal the free download that came with my tape if you're fast enough

dimitriam.bandcamp.com/album/instan...
Delilah big stretch in front of the Dimitriam Instant Coffee download code the code in full view, Delilah mid bite e2jv-wppp
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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hey man sorry you couldn't make the set tonight. yeah I got a pic of the setlist for you here u go
list of things on a step stool at trader joes
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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look I prefer the lo-fi stuff too but y'all need to (Half Staff Blues out now btw) Log Off

in this example I guess "Fire Matt Douglas" = "any criticism on Matt" as if somehow he is singularly poisoning the vision of the band
reddit thread screenshot parent comment: Fire Matt Douglas and get back to your roots, John. I beg you. child comment: It sucks that any criticism on Matt equals instant downvotes. This first song is not filling me with hope but I'll save judgement until the whole thing is released. I'm hoping John can wow me with a complete album but it's been a long time imo. At least with the Goats we have a ton of music to listen to so even five or six bad albums doesn't hurt overall just impacts the live show which is where the magic happens. As long as he continues to play deep cuts and older material I will still go.
September 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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no thanks, it's all greek to me anyway
"Get ready now for hurricane season. It looks like this message is in Greek Translate to English Hurricane season is here. And we're here for you."
September 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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the reviews are in!
text reads "Congrats on putting yourself out there. Not for me, though." Comment reading "Man, you're insane" Comment reading "Youtube recommended this to me randomly, had no clue what it was, now it is my favourite song. Keep it up!" comment reading "blow your shi smoove off" (same video as the last comment)
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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got some music means bsky gets download codes. new wavey/drum machine punk/post punk from indie popper Sinkcharmer
https://sinkcharmer.bandcamp.com/yum u4e8-hgzp rgfh-yvz2
August 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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had to double-check my screen, new BRNDA on the Bandcamp Featured tab??? dub so big I had to check to see if @craftedsounds.bsky.social moved to Bluesky
screenshot of the Bandcamp Featured tab featuring Total Pain by BRNDA
July 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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fiance is out of town so I made a crab, then I accidentally made her a little too sultry, probably
red crab kinda creature with pink purse and blue and black sunglasses. the crab has blue lipstick on, and she's kinda cunty? hard to explain. she's got a ponytail but you can't see it well here
July 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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turns out if you walk into a shop that sells music and ask "hey would y'all sell my tapes here if I brought them in" they might actually say "yeah we'd love to"
a beige tape, a green tape, and a yellow tape stand vertically in a row. Under each tape is another tape of the same color, laid horizontally on red, green, and lime prints, respectively.
June 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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say what you will about the concept but you can't deny that we're working around the clock to deliver that content you crave here at Sawyr dot ecks why zee
cutouts of 4 cats are placed around a plastic pizza separator (one of those little tables in the pizza boxes). a flower sits on the table. the middle cat seems to have hands that are holding cards the 4 cats are placed in a scene with more overhead lighting, still playing contract bridge
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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if you're making like ten grand, you can probably cover international shipping right?
Listing for the Master Tapes of Sun Ra's "The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra", currently listed for 7500 GBP (approx $10,000) Shipping for the listing, approx 25 GPP / $33.57
June 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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love the motion in this painting of Jezebel so I put this together
collage featuring two images of Jezebel, a biblical queen with red hair. In one cutout, she wears an orange full body gown of sorts? there's a black cat with green eyes next to her. on her right is Jezebel falling from a window after being thrown from a balcony. she is wearing a flowing blue cloth. in the background is some building pieces assembled to look kinda like a flag almost? with a burning fire in a window above the image of Jezebel falling
June 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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impossible for me to look at this cover and not see Eggman unfortunately
photo of Pere Ubu's Story Of My Life on Cassette Tape. The cover art depicts a blurry, potentially CG man with green tanning sunglasses on
June 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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good morning!
screenshot of a Bandcamp review that reads... "Supported by Winston (Ceramic Rabbit): 'A home recording project that has been stuck in my head for awhile. Pleasing and gentle acoustic instrumentals provide an amazing pair to the vocals and lyrics that touch wonderfully on topics of love, hope, pain, addiction, loss, shame and depression that stems from the malaise of everyday routine, the repetitive changing of time and seasons, unfamiliarity with stability and seeing through the subtle lies of seemingly innocuous product marketing and advertisement.' Favorite track: You Are In Wilkinsburg Now?"
May 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Anyway, reviews so far are good! Here's one of the single I dropped earlier this weekend from the ever unbiased @sawyrxyz1fan.bsky.social
Screenshot of a message received via Telegram that reads: "Plyushkin syndrome- another killer instrument, another top song of mine. Very wild but calming sound, it scratches a rare part of my brain that i frequently i crave in music"
May 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I'm maybe not the best media critic but I'm fascinated by the decision of the cover band at the New Wave night to play Tiananmen Square footage and cover 99 Red Balloons
band on a stage with a projector screen behind them. the projector screen shows film of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
May 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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If you pre-order the digital album (or the physical for that matter), I'll also include Just Say No!, which is a collection of demos, outtakes, drafts, etc from the tape! There are at least three songs on here that aren't on the tape plus alternate versions of pretty much everything on the tape!
Cards lay on a dusty plastic lid. The top card on the pile reads "Action Card" in black text. Below that on the card, a white circle contains text reading "Just Say No!" There are other cards stacked and strewn about beneath this card, some with other text on them.
May 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A cool little find from eBay earlier this week—promotional magnets from the release of The Sunset Tree! I scanned the sheet as a PDF in a skeet below in case you want to make your own at home
Promotional magnets for the Mountain Goats' The Sunset Tree, featuring small individual word magnets that one can use to build their own sentences. The magnets include the album's cover, along with the words "the, mountain, goats, the sunset, tree, magpie, broom, people, love, love, love, pale, green, things, up, the, wolves, lion's, teeth, hast, thou, considered, the, tetrapod, dilaudid, song, for, dennis, brown, you, or, your, money, dance, music, dinu, lipatti's, bones, this, year, sweet, is, the, hour, of, rest, pleasant, the, wood's, low, sigh, and, the, gleaming, of, the, west, and, the, turf, whereon, we, lie, when, the, burden, and, the, heat, of, labour's, task, are, o'er, and, kindly, voices, greet, the, tired, one, at, his, door, beggars.com/, us/, mountain, goats" with the 4AD logo also a magnet option preceding the beggars.com/ magnet.
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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how many the mountain goats friendship bracelets is too many the mountain goats friendship bracelets to wear while proposing? asking for a friend
person with long curly hair in a pink cardigan and a black/white gingham dress stands with their back to the camera. person with beard and glasses wearing a crew neck sweatshirt with dark red on top and gray on bottom is on one knee holding something in their hand—making a proposal motion zoomed in photo, person with long curly hair in a pink cardigan and a black/white gingham dress stands with their back to the camera. person with beard and glasses wearing a crew neck sweatshirt with dark red on top and gray on bottom is on one knee holding something in their hand. you can see some assorted trees without leaves in the background a pair of hands, one with a pink sleeve wearing a thin-banded engagement ring with a marquis cut lab diamond and the other with nails that could probably use a trim and three friendship bracelets on—one reads "WHEN..." and another reads "DAMN..." There is a third ring but it isn't clear what it says from the photo. A bouquet of blurry sunflowers and gerbera daisies appears in the background
March 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Leaving Pittsburgh one last time tomorrow and headed out to the Philadelphia suburbs. Here's a download code for Pennsylvania Sounds Volume One:
Card that reads: "Pennsylvania Sounds Volume One To download this recording redeem code below at http://summerstepsrecords.bandcamp.com/yum 6sfp-ewae" A man looks at a plant in a black square on the left side with text that reads "Summersteps Records"
February 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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"That's bone"
Business card scene from American Psycho. Bone from the comic Bone is poorly superimposed on the business card
January 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I wrote this up for the Mountain Goats discord, but as I'm sure some of you got Bleed Out watches for Christmas, I wanted to share here as well
This is a scenario I recently ran into, so for those of you who haven't changed the battery on a novelty watch before: To change the battery in your Bleed Out Watch, you'll need: -One SR626SW watch battery -A small, thin object such as a pocket knife or a flathead screwdriver If you turn your watch onto its back (so with the watch face pointing away from you), you should see a silver backplate. In the top-right corner of the backplate, you should see a small divet. Wedge your flathead screwdriver or equally thin tool between the plate and the divet very carefully (can't emphasize this enough!) until the back plate separates from the watch. When you do so, you should see the battery housed in the top-left corner of the watch mechanism locked beneath some plastic. Remove the plastic, then remove the old battery. Place the new battery in the slot from whence you removed the original battery, then replace all parts as they were when you removed them. Your watch should now be ticking again
December 25, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Nothing could've prepared me for the devastation I was in for when I set up a camera to check in on my cats while we're out on vacation
camera view of a living room where a cat sits inquisitively on a couch two cats stare to the left of the camera as if they had just heard a noise a cat sleeps in the corner of a couch. she is laying her head on the armrest of the couch
December 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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The culprit (Delilah, 17lbs, who ate like three feet of yarn and then spent last night throwing it up)
Delilah, a large tortoiseshell cat laying by a window sunbathing in natural light
December 12, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Most of these were expected, although Modern Again made a surprisingly deep run
Top artists: The Mountain Goats Vehicle Flips The Cure Wimp Factor 14 Rage Against the Machine Top Tracks: Yoga by The Mountain Goats Going to Marrakesh by The Extra Glenns Game Shows Touch Our Lives by The Mountain Goats We Were Patriots by The Mountain Goats Modern Again by Nøthing Painted Blue
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 AM