Sympathy¶
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After marking earlier today I went food shopping and thought I could do with a new record as well. Unfortunately, Göttingen isn't a good place to shop for records. One of the record stores is too much into electronic stuff for my taste and in other one which has an OK selection of records I always tend to find the people a little unfriendly and too busy with being 'cool' or something. Also, they mostly seem to relate much more to the electronic or Hiphop stuff they sell, rather than the music I buy. Another drawback is that while in Bremen or Berlin you'll pay €13 to €17 for an LP, in Göttingen it's invariably three to four Euros more expensive for the same records. Not a good place, as I said.
After looking around for a bit, I found a nice
sampler by Sympathy for the Record Industry, the label of the White Stripes. It's called Sympathetic sounds of Detroit and is quite enjoyable, including a couple of bands that I've seen before like The Von Bondies whom I saw at Vera back in September or Whirlwind Heat who supported the White Stripes when I saw them in Logo club in Hamburg about a year ago.
Other bands, The Detroit Cobras and The Come Ons I've heard of before because friends recommended them and the remaining bands are in the same style and may be worth investigating in more detail in the future. So I guess, I could claim that buying this record was some kind of educational spending.
One thing that's strage about the record is that in the 'silent' bits right at the beginning and at the end there's an annoying static-like noise. I wonder whether they just didn't produce it carefully or whether they did this on purpose – either to annoy people or to remind lazy bastards like me that they have to put on a new record or turn off the current one at least.
Another thing about Sympathy for the Record Industry is that their logo looks a bit Nazi-esque to me. I doubt that the company has any questionable connections – but again I wonder whether they chose this logo because they didn' know better or to offend a little bit, as, for sure, they do like playing the little offending game:
Sympathy for the Record Industry – Part of the problem since 1988.
Sympathy for the Record Industry – you've tried the rest, now go fuck yourself
