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Out and About: WESU Record Fair, Youth of Today, Salvation…

Out and About: 
WESU Record Fair, Youth of Today, Salvation…

Connecticut has a lot going on this weekend. Here are three things that we will most definitely be in attendance for.



1. WESU Fall Record Fair (Facebook Event). Last year we scored a ton of great stuff for way cheap! Sean got a a copy of Botch “We Are The Romans” LP /300 for $30, that’s a steal! We’ll have a couple of tables of stuff from our store set up along with 17 other dealers.The Hartford Area Roller Derby girls will be selling baked goods as well. Get sugared up and dig hard. There will be a couple food trucks outside too. This fair is FREE. 11AM – 4PM. Saturday, November 12th Beckham Hall Wyllys Avenue, Wesleyan University Campus Middletown, CT.



2. After the record fair, we’ll be heading down to The El’N’Gee in New London, CT to catch a performance by legendary Connecticut natives, Youth Of Today. This show is brought to us by Brass City Boss Sounds, so head over to their site and secure your ticket to move up front and shout out loud. 

The last time I saw YOT was 1999. They played a reunion show in Wallingford. It was originally supposed to be at the Extreme Skatepark, but it got moved to the Polish Club down the street. I’m glad it did because the floor of the 4th floor warehouse the skatepark was in would have absolutely caved in. At that time, Jamey (Hatebreed, Stillborn, Jasta) had a small record store called Subterranean in the center of town. The day of the show, a bunch of local kids got recruited to help out. I got left at the shop by myself. No one gave me the key to take the security cases off of CDs, so I was cutting them out with pliers. People from all over the world flew in for that show and had to come to Subterranean to pick up their tickets. I have a really vivid memory of trying to explain to some nice European dudes that I couldn’t take purple money. 

When I arrived at the show that night, I remember the hall was packed super tight and it felt like it took forever from the time the doors opened to when Right Brigade started that night. As soon as the feedback started in, the floor opened up wide. Dudes were moshing so hard, the floor boards were bouncing up and down and I could barely stay on my own two feet, let alone defend myself from getting hit. I made my way to the side of the stage and managed to watch the rest of the show from the speaker stacks. Youth Of Today was amazing that night. I can’t put the vibe of their set into words.

Do not miss this opportunity to catch them live!



3. Sunday brings us a night of brutal hardcore rituals by Salvation (Youth Attack), Hoax (Youth Attack) & Brass Caskets will be taking place in a secret location (Facebook Event). To be guided to the show, meet at Redscroll. We’ll show you the way.
Discount, Liberty Tattoo, Tattoo

Redscroll Tattoo

Redscroll Tattoo Time!

(Chrissy Murderbot)

The first one (that we know of) has been done and it’s on Josh. There are supposedly a couple people with appointments to get some done, but seeing is believing. Please show pictures to us when you’ve got them to share! 

(Random unrelated assortment)

So, yea, if you didn’t know by now (there’s been a teaser on our dry-erase board for about 5 months now) we do offer discounts to anyone that gets a Redscroll Records tattoo.  However, we urge all to check in with us first before just getting something and expecting some kind of discount.  Size and placement will determine the size of the discount. 

We’ve gone ahead and teamed up with Liberty Tattoo in Berlin, CT to offer some fun predetermined discounts at predetermined prices (a flash sheet!). Davey A drew these and we’re psyched on the results.

(Click to enlarge and see the prices and discounts offered for each.)

The gang over at Liberty even did some math to figure out how much it takes to make your money back on these and the answer that matters is it costs $666 to have the black metal dude pay for itself!  


There are a couple simple rules to the the flash tattoo discount:

  1. No changes! (If you want the price and discount listed you must get the tattoo exactly as it is in the exact size that it is.)

  2. No doubling or multiplying of any kind. (If you want to get multiple tattoos that’s awesome, but only one of them will go towards a discount.)
  3. When you come in to get a discount you must be prepared to have us take a picture of it on you. If you get it on your secret no-no spot then get ready to show us!


(We’d really just prefer they be more easily accessible.)

Liberty Tattoo LLC
853 Farmington Ave
Berlin, CT 06037
860 828 8880

Lastly, if you plan on getting this done let Liberty and us know by attending this Facebook Event.
Music Review, Reviews, Update

4th Of November 2011 Update

4th Of November 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records


We added a CLEARANCE RACK! About 100 or so LPs marked down (many below cost) to make room.  We are constantly running out of room!







LPs & 12″s
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Alaric “Alaric”
Animals As Leaders “Weightless (180 Gram + D/L; Die-cut Sleeve)”
Burial Hex “Actaeon/Iron Fist”
Craft “Void (Gatefold 2LP)”
Daybreaker “The Northbound Trains EP (+ D/L)”
Dieb13 / Gustafsson / Siewert “(Fake) The Facts”
Dream Affair “Endless Days”
Far East Family Band “Nipponjin: Join Our Mental Phase Sound (180 Gram)”
Ferraro, James “Multitopia”
Florence + The Machine “Ceremonials (180 Gram)”
Gallagher’s, Noel High Flying Birds “Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (Heavyweight Vinyl)”
Girl In A Coma “Exits & All The Rest (+ CD)”
Gudnadottir, Hildur “Without Sinking (2LP)”
Heavy Times “Jacker”
His Electro Blue Voice “Wolf/Worm”
Hive Mind “Elemental Disgrace”
Holiday Shores “New Masses For Squaw Peak (+ D/L)”
Human Eye “Fragments Of The Universe Nurse”
In Trance 95 “Cities Of Steel And Neon”
Indignant Senility “Consecration Of The Whipstain (2LP)”
Kashmere Stage Band “Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 (Expanded Deluxe 3LP+DVD)”
King Dude “Tonight’s Special Death”
La Roux “Quicksand / In For The Kill (Includes Skream Remix)”
Leo, Ted “Ted Leo 5-10-2011 Live At Third Man”
Like A Stunt Man “YOY (180 Gram + D/L)”
Little Dragon “Machine Dreams”
Little Dragon “Ritual Union”
Lucky Luke “Travelling For A Living (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Lustmord “Zoetrope: The Original Soundtrack Expanded & Revised (2LP)”
Lustmord “The Monstrous Soul (With Adi Newton; 2LP)”
Mcneill, Lloyd Quartet (Lloyd Mcneil Quartet) “Washington Suite (Special Edition /1000)”
Noothgrush “Live For Nothing (Live At KZSU / Live At KFJC)”
Olivia Tremor Control, The “Dusk At Cubist Castle (Music From The Unrealized Film Script; 2LP Reissue)”
Olivia Tremor Control, The “Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (2LP Reissue)”
Oneohtrix Point Never “Replica (/1000)”
Other Lives “Tamer Animals (180 Gram + CD)”
Owen “Ghost Town (180 Gram + D/L)”
Pas De Deux “Cardiocleptomanie”
Perry, Lee “Scratch” “The Return Of Pipecock Jackxon”
Pink Playground “Destination Ecstasy (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Pulp “Different Class (180 Gram)”
Qluster (Cluster) “Rufen (180 Gram + D/L)”
Quilt “Quilt (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Rebolledo “Super Vato (2LP + CD + Postersticker)”
Ritter, Josh “Golden Age Of Radio (Ltd. Ed. + CD Including Bonus Tracks)”
Roberts, Luke “Big Bells And Dime Songs (+ D/L)”
Roedelius Schneider “Stunden (180 Gram + D/L)”
Russian Circles “Empros”
Stereo Total “Underwater Love: A Pink Musical (Special Edition /500)”
Sultan, Mark “Whenever I Want (+ D/L)”
Sultan, Mark “Whatever I Want (+ D/L)”
Sykes, Jesse & The Sweet Hereafter “Marble Son (+ CD)”
Sykes, Jesse & The Sweet Hereafter “Like Love & Lust: The Open Halls Of The Soul”
Sympathy Nervous “Automaticism (Clear Vinyl)”
Teenage Panzerkorps, Der “Kauf Nicht Von TPK”
Television Personalities “They Could Have Been Bigger than The Beatles (1972) [RiSe]”
Television Personalities “The Painted Word (1972)”
Throbbing Gristle “The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle Recorded During The Year Ending September 3rd 1977 “
Tickley Feather “Hors D’Oeuvres (+ D/L)”
True Widow “I.N.O. E.P.”
Various Artists “Guitar Mood 2: More Rare Instrumentals From The New And Olde Worlds”
Various Artists “Orgelvark: En Stadig Samling Svensk Syntmusik (1986) [Minimal Wave]”
Various Artists “Fac Dance: Factory Records 12″ Mixes & Rarities 1980-1987”
Various Artists “A Greater Administration Of Lower Interests (Carsten Jost, Lawrence)”
Waits, Tom “Franks Wild Years: Un Operachi Romantico In Two Acts (180 Gram)”
Wax Idols “No Future”
Webb, TK “TK Webb (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
White Denim “White Denim 4-1-2011 Live At Third Man”




Electronic LPs & 12″s
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Alias G “Delite Tonite / Pulsate”
AnD “Non Compliant / Reverberate / Molecular Deconstruction”
Anstam “Dispel Dances”
Author “The City / Teacher”
Banton, Solo “Music Addict EP”
Black Samurai “Information Critic (Ft. Daddy Freddy & The Ragga Twins)”
Bogdan Irkuk (A.K.A. Bulgari) “The Thracian EP (W/ Prins Thomas)”
Brackles “Spider / Take Me Home”
Buraka Som Sistema “Komba”
Burns, Willie “Willie Burns”
Dettmann, Marcel “Translation”
Distal “Angry Acid / French Science”
DJ Food “Magpies, Maps And Moons: Songs For Stolen Moments”
Dro Carey “Cancy Red / Hungry Horse”
Dubmatix “Clash Of The Titans: The System Shakedown Remixes”
Dusty Kid (Dustykid) “Polybolo / Argia (Popof Remix)”
Ernestus, Mark / Konono “Masikulu”
Greene, Jacque “Greene 01 (10″)”
Justice “Audio, Video, Disco. (+ D/L)”
King Midas Sound “Goodbye Girl”
Kito & Reija Lee “Sweet Talk”
Knwledge “Klouds”
Kuedo “Severant (+ D/L)”
L-Vis 1990 “Lost In Love”
Machinedrum “Let It (Feat. Melo-X)”
MAM “MAM Edits”
Midnight Magic “Drop Me A Line”
Mosca “Done Me Wrong / Bax”
OneAuff (One Auff) “Heavy Heady”
Planetary Assault Systems “The Messenger (2×12″)”
Pole “Waldgeschichten”
Quantax “Cinematics/Who Needs Attack (10″)”
Robot Koch “The Other Side (2XLP)”
Samoyed “Spit EP (Spit/Maybe Yes) (10″)”
Sante And Lorber “Rootdown / You Know”
Slugabed “Sun Too Bright Turn It Off”
Stingray Enters The Unknown “The Sadist EP”
Sully “Toffee Apple (10″)”
Thelem “Lucid Dream”
Trentemoller “Reworked/Remixed (2×12″)”
Vakula “Saturday Remixes (Deetron, Jeff Sharel, Legowelt, Fudge Fingas)”
Various Artists “Surreal Estate EP (XI, Distal, Sepalcure, Kuru & UFO!, DJG, Bravo & Teeko)”
Various Artists “RDY#6”
Various Artists “Ghettoteknitianz E.P. (DJ Rashad & Gant-Man, DJ Earl, Traxman)”
Walton “Aggy / Mangled Riddim / 808 Vybzin / Skrilla”
Willie Burns “Willie Burns = House (I’m Gonna Get You / Windows Down / Waste Your Time / Another Night)”
XXXY “Kerpow / Down Wit U”
XXXY / IKE Release “XXXY / IKE Release”




Hip-Hop 12″s & LPs
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Black Milk “Black Milk 4-8-2011 Live At Third Man”
Jordan, Geno “You’re A Peachtree Freak On Peachtree Street”
M.E.D. “Classic (2LP)”
M.E.D. “Classic (3LP Album & Instrumentals)”




7″s
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Best Coast “When I’m With You”
Karen Elson “Vicious”
Front Bottoms “The Beers”
Grave Babies “Pleasures”
Insane Clown Posse (With Jeff The Brotherhood and Jack White) “Leck Mich…”
Oberhafer “Gotta Go”
Purity Ring / Braids
Yorke, Thom/Modeselektor “Ship…”




CDs
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Animals As Leaders “Weightless”
Cloaks “Versions Grain”
Damu “Unity”
Fishbone “Crazy Glue”
Four Tet “FabricLive 59”
Patton, Mike “Solitude Of..”




DVD
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Backyard The Movie (CD/DVD)




Book
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Baker, S. “Studio One Covers”
“Art Of Worms” (Tapeworm)


Reviews
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Anthony Pappalardo & Max G. Morton Live… Suburbia Book 
(Powerhouse Books)
Last Saturday, we were hit with a freak snow storm that sent trees crashing down onto power lines causing most of the state to be without electricity. my house and Redscroll were both luckily spared. When I woke up Sunday morning, I had a few free hours to myself thanks to the nor’easter so, I reached for my new copy of “Live…Suburbia”. Through personal essays and collected color photos, authors Anthony Pappalardo (In My Eyes, Radio Silence) and Max G. Morton (Heartworm) set a tone for what growing up as part of a subculture in the suburban landscape of the 1980s was like. A pre-internet era, where people couldn’t just “google” anything that was foreign to them. Where you had to dig deep and be patient if you wanted to get outside the box and not end up a fucking norm. I recommend that you flip through the book first, just look at the pictures, transport yourself back in time, then start into the essays.
[Reviewer: Josh]


Planetary Assault Systems The Messenger 2×12″
(Ostgut Ton/Kompakt)
I’ve recently been getting some heavy nostalgia for the late 90s/early 00s and specificaly the maximalist feel that came along with that time; barrages of sensory overload. The Digital Hardcore Records label (Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot’s baby) was great for that.  Industrial Strength records just turned 20 (I went to the 20th anniversary party and enjoyed it).  Draw back a bit from those approaches (the in-your-face non-stop thumping approach) and you’d find acts like Zipperspy who were more adventurous with maximalism; drawing into a more experimentalist slant while not losing the rhythm behind it.  Mash Up Soundsystem was good for that approach too; breakcore on a more adventurous journey (not relying on gangster movie samples and 808s for instance).  Planetary Assault Systems is perhaps a modern take on that (maybe it’s a stretch for anyone but me to see it this way; then again, I’m the author here so what I say goes).  Mix in the Modern Love camp (Andy Stott, Demdike Stare, Claro Intelecto…) and make it a bit hyper. Minimal maximalism?  Take the ride.  Syncopation in afro-centric rhythms while not completely full (leaving some tasteful spaces to realize how silly you look dancing to this; we all look silly dancing no matter how skilled -> fact). I should put this on 45 RPM and really get a workout going.  See ya. 
[Reviewer: Rick]


Purity Ring / Braids Belispeak / Peach Wedding 7″
(Fat Possum)
Yo, you like girls singing all demure-like over some off-beat mostly electronic business?  So do I?  Did you get that free Labyrinth Ear release a while ago? No, you should get that here.  So sickeningly sweet and dreamy, but without any twangy guitar rattling or straight-forward drumming weighing it down (I’m serious). Thank you Twin Peaks for influencing so many people to just slow down and take care and party. Slow it down to 33 1/3 and get extra syrupy and it’s still good (at that speed they actually sound like they could be the same band). I listened to this probably more times on the wrong speed. I admit it. Try it. 
[Reviewer: Rick]


Yacht Shangri-La CD/LP
(DFA)
Right from the get-go, it’s clear that there’s something peculiar about this disco-sounding electropop/dance-punk album. The promo copy’s description tells the listener that the disc “contains information key to the building of a new utopia.” It kicks off with the super-danceable “Utopia,” pulsing with a sunny city-of-the-future vibe before the polar opposite “Dystopia;” a slower, funkier and obviously bleaker track with vocals that are still delivered with similar emphasis. The meanings behind the messages are up for debate; I know it’s been quoted in several reviews already, but lyrics like “I love you like a small-town cop/ Yeah, I wanna smash your face in with a rock” play a significant role in understanding just what YACHT is conveying. Instead of brainless euphoria, it sounds like a form of self-awareness in which they acknowledge that they want to try and enjoy life in a very imperfect world. It would make for a very unique night of club dancing. 
[Reviewer: Mark]
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28th of October 2011 Update

28th of October 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Adams, Ryan      “Ashes & Fire”
Atelecine      “The Falcon And the Pod” (Grey Splatter Vinyl)
Bayside      “Sirens And Condolences” (+ D/L)
Beach Boys, The      “Smile”
Bjork      “Biophilia”   
Black Label Society      “1919 Eternal”
Black Sabbath      “Sabotage”
Coldplay      “Mylo Xyloto”
Dead Meadow      “Got Live If You Want It!”
Dio      “Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City”
Fidan, Tolga      “We’re Strangers Now”
Flaming Lips      “Zaireeka” (Unofficial)
Fu Manchu      “The Covers” (Void, JFA, Black Flag, The Cars, Thin Lizzy…)
Give Up The Ghost      “Year One” (+ D/L)
Green, Colleen      “Cujo” (+ D/L)
Head Automatica      “Decademce”
Helmet      “Meantime”
Hooker, John Lee      “Sittin’ Here Thinkin'”
Ilya Monosov      “Sailor Man” (+ D/L)
Jonti      “Twirligig”
Knife, The      “Marble House”
Koray, Erkin      “Mechul: Singles & Rarities”
Mercury Rev      “Deserter’s Songs”
Muhammad, Idris      “Pow”er Of Soul”
Ohbijou      “Metal Meets
Pianos Become The Teeth      “The Lack Long After”
Prurient      “Time’s Arrow”
Psychic Dancehall      “Dreamers” (+ D/L)
Queers, The      “Grow Up”
Russian Circles      “Station”
Sadier, Laetitia      “La Piscine: An Invitation By Laetitia Sadier To Keep On Swimming
Strife    One Truth” (+ D/L)
Sun Ra      “The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 1” (U.F.O. / Antique Blacks)
Swervedriver      “Planes Over The Skyline: Rare And Unreleased Recordings” (Screened Fan Club Edition)
Various Artists      “Mississippi Blues 1927-1941”
Void      “Sessions 1981-83”
Warzone      “Old School To New School” (+ D/L)
Wolfe, Chelsea      “Ἀποκάλυψις”
Zorn, John      “A Dreamers Christmas”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
______________________
Alias G      “Delite Tonite / Pulsate”
AnD    “Non Compliant / Reverberate / Molecular Deconstruction”
Anstam    “Dispel Dances”
Banton, Solo    “Music Addict EP”
Bogdan Irkuk (A.K.A. Bulgari)    “The Thracian EP (W/ Prins Thomas)”
Burns, Willie    “Willie Burns”
Dro Carey    “Cancy Red / Hungry Horse”
Dubmatix     “Clash Of The Titans: The System Shakedown Remixes”
Ernestus, Mark / Konono     “Masikulu”
Greene, Jacque    “Greene 01 (10″)”
King Midas Sound    “Goodbye Girl”
Kito & Reija Lee    “Sweet Talk”
Knwledge  “Klouds”
Kuedo    “Severant (+ D/L)”
L-Vis 1990  “Lost In Love””
Midnight Magic    “Drop Me A Line
Mosca    “Done Me Wrong / Bax”
Quantax      “Cinematics/Who Needs Attack (10″)”
Robot Koch  “The Other Side (2XLP)”
Samoyed      “Spit EP (Spit/Maybe Yes) (10″)”
Stingray Enters The Unknown    “The Sadist EP”
Thelem    “Lucid Dream”
Vakula      “Saturday Remixes (Deetron, Jeff Sharel, Legowelt, Fudge Fingas)”
Various Artists      “Surreal Estate EP (XI, Distal, Sepalcure, Kuru & UFO!, DJG, Bravo & Teeko)”
Various Artists      “RDY#6”
Various Artists      “Ghettoteknitianz E.P. (DJ Rashad & Gant-Man, DJ Earl, Traxman)”
Various Artists      “Fac Dance: Factory Records 12″ Mixes & Rarities 1980-1987”
Willie Burns      “Willie Burns = House (I’m Gonna Get You / Windows Down / Waste Your Time / Another Night)”
XXXY      “Kerpow / Down Wit U”

Hip-Hop 12″s & LPs
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GZA / Genius      “Liquid Swords”
Nosaj Thing      “Drift”
Yesterdays New Quintet (MadLib)      “Yesterday’s Universe”
Yesterdays New Quintet (MadLib)         “Yesterdays New Quintet”
Zavala      “he Dark Time Sunshine Vessel Instrumentals” (Ltd. Ed. White Vinyl)

7″s
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DMX Krew      “Funky Dancer”
Fed Up!      “Live At WFMU”
Grave Babies      “Pleasures”
Jawbox      “Jackpot Plus!”
Reivers      “Schemata”
Swing Kids      “Swing Kids”
Tall Black Guy      “Water No Enemy”
Tall Black Guy      “Return Of Here”
Terrible Feelings      “Impending Doom / Death To Everyone”
Terry Malts      “Someting About You”

CDs
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Black Tusk      “Set The Dial”
Body, The / Braveyoung      “Nothing Passes”
Fuck The Facts      “Die Miserable”
Giant Squid      “Cenote”
Kid Koala      “Space Cadet” (CD + Book)
Necros Christos      “Doom Of…”
Oswalt, Patton      “Finest Hour”
Spits      “Spits”
Sultan, Mark      “Whatever I Want”
Various Artists      “African Pearls Volume 2”
Viodre      “Interpol Alchemi”
Zinn, Howard      “Vol 1: People’s History”

Review
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Wolves in The Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
Wolves In The Throne Room is an ambient black metal band from Olympia,
Washington. They were formed by two brothers (Aaron
& Nathan Weaver) in 2002, and released their first full length,
“”Diadem of Twelve Stars”  in 2006. Since then, they have been signed
to Southern Lord Records and released 2 full lengths, and EP, and a
live album. “Celestial Lineage” marks their fourth full length
release.

Wolves is not like most black metal bands, in that they do not promote
satanism, wear corpse pain or do much of what the average black metal
band does. Instead, they fuse their music with themes of nature, often
play outdoors, and promote meditation during live shows. “Celestial
Lineage” is as alluring and beautiful as it is aggressive and dark. It
has not left my turntable for about 5 days now, and I don’t see it
leaving anytime soon.

This double LP comes on 180 gram vinyl in a thick gatefold jacket with
printed inner sleeves and an OBI strip. Really top notch packaging,
but that’s to expect from Southern Lord.

(Review: Sean)

Danzig, Misfits, NYC, Record Fair, Samhain, WFMU

Out & About: WFMU Record Fair (NYC)

Out & About: WFMU Record Fair (NYC)
Josh and I (Rick) and our friend Ben will be at the WFMU Record Fair on Friday and Saturday. We’ll have 2 tables set up. The fair goes through Sunday, but we’ll not be there that last day. It is the best event like this anywhere. There are hundreds of dealers (dealer list here) with a wide variety of specialties. And there are other special events and performances (Prince Rama, Black Hollies, CSC Funk Band… list). If you can’t make it, but want us to keep a look out for something in particular please feel free to send us an email with what it is you’d like us to look for and (this is important) how much you’d be willing to pay for it.
Take a look at this walking tour I did of the event last year (single shaky shot of me walking through the whole thing with as little back-tracking as possible – it’s hard to hit every spot without going back a little).
(PS – We’re also seeing Danzig’s Legacy show on Saturday night! Danzig, Misfits and Samhain songs! Stoked!)

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