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Outdoor Miners Twelve Hundred Dollars b/w Keep Me Warm / Turn You Into Glue (Pop Echo Records) Edmonton, AB ::web/sounds:: |
Are you ready? Because anthemic rock rarely ignites the sing-a-long factory while retaining imagination and granularity within the recorded zone. Which is why Twelve Hundred Dollars has been an anthem to every ear lucky enough to capture its brief life on the Hydeaway Winter 2008 compilation. Re-recorded and released as a 7″ via Edmonton’s Pop Echo Records, Twelve Hundred Dollars retains every ounce of arm-swinging, vertical strutting, no-money bravado as ever, and dammit, it’s still the biggest anthem to every rent-paying, cheapskate jerkoid who sneaks into shows, crowd-surf’s their unwilling friends, and steals 5-cent candies. They’ve paired Twelve Hundred Dollars with Keep Me Warm, segueing the Outdoor Miners into driving 90s popfuckery matched seamlessly by Alec Meen’s searing guitar leads and their iconic vocal recordings (drenched beautifully in distortion and reverb). Everybody: pay your rent!
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Outdoor Miners – Twelve Hundred Dollars
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Outdoor Miners – Keep Me Warm
Hey termbro I dig the site. All those surfed were willing participants, hows that 100 bucks I paid you working out?
So happy you posted this. Twelve Hundred Dollars is crazy great. Hope these guys come to Ottawa some day so I can give them all of my money.
I could only find it on iTunes to buy, no possibility to do it directly through Pop Echo Rec.
What’s your opinion on this if I may ask? Is it better to support the artists without the chains of middlemen, like donating at their site, or paying for the record at their labels blog etc, or is it better to support the centralization of digital stores like iTunes? This time I just got it from iTunes because I couldn’t wait to listen to the last track on the EP (awesome too!)
As someone who has put out records myself, seeking any avenue will count as support. Buying direct gives that instant pleasure of knowing there is demand. On the other hand, buying from stores means that distributors sold more copies, giving you a better chance of getting distribution on your next release.
I think Pop Echo is hoping the 7″ will sell-out locally, which I’m sure it will. Give them an e-mail, though. They’re nice people.
Hearts,
Aaron Levin
Weird Canada / Cantor Records
http://www.weirdcanada.com / http://www.cantorrecords.com