100%. There’s no going back for Spotify. Encourage other platforms or the creation of a fair streaming platform from the ground up. Although I don’t think that there is a pathway to profit for a fair streaming service. At least that people would be willing to pay the price for.
10.01.2026 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Who’s responsible when you lose two games you dominated in the last two minutes up by two scores?
21.12.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Avoid Uline like the plague. Terrible and evil people. Alternatives are easy to find.
For example, if you’re mailing records frequently, you can get these great record mailers from TwisterBox.com. Emailed directly with the owner and he set me up with mailers delivered in two(!) days.
TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS: 2009-2025
BIG SALE happening over at our Bandcamp page. Take a whopping 30% off anything in the webshop using the code: ADIEU
troubleinmindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch
I probably had no business being there but Mike Zirkel was cool enough to start letting me record projects at Smart Studios and take on some of the overflow stuff when @beaunoise.bsky.social was busy doing cooler stuff.
The US healthcare/insurance "system" sucks but Mike rules:
WISCONSIN MUSIC HISTORY ALERT:
Aside from some misc. obscure early hardcore cassette and vinyl compilations, the only official Mecht Mensch release was a long out of print 7” originally recorded by Butch Vig at Smart Studios in 1983 which went on to become an underground hardcore cult classic.
#Substack is now promoting #Nazis. So much for the “we’re just supporting free speech” crap they were spewing. I stopped reading anything there a while ago. Maybe you should think about it.
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Ozzy with a dove that he bit the head off.
Safe travels madman. Thanks for the music. #Ozzy
22.07.2025 19:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Diamonda Galas was my go to.
14.07.2025 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes!
06.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just deleted my #SoundCloud account. #AI
"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence …"
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
Let’s see, AI doesn’t act like expected much of the time. See Musk’s AI that says he’s the biggest spreader of false information on the web.
Seriously though this is bullshit and AI as is needs to be relegated scrap heap of history.
I went to see #MichaelMonore ( formerly singer of #HanoiRocks ) last night in St Charles Illinois. If I needed to have my faith restored in Rock n Roll that did it. A fun and powerful set of joyous rock jams. A grinning from ear to ear experience. #RockNRoll #Rock #HardRock #Punk
07.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s ok, IMO Shandi is an abomination.
06.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is just ridiculous. 😜
05.04.2025 21:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Surprised how few young people were there. I’d say the average age was 40, very white, a decent LGBTQ + presence. Also quite a few nuns. Unsurprisingly more women than men.
05.04.2025 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A large group of people participating in a protest, holding various signs with messages about unity, science, and public health. Some signs read "UNITE AGAINST FASCISM," "SCIENCE IS NOT FICTION," and "HANDS OFF PUBLIC HEALTH”
#HandsOff #Milwaukee I’d estimate 5,000 - 7,000 protesters. #Resistance
05.04.2025 21:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0*it’s
05.04.2025 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don’t know about best but it fucking great.
The Elder is less of a mistake than Unmasked is. That’s the album that sunk the ship. The Elder just happened to be a poor choice as a follow up. I vividly remember discussions on the playground in grade school of how bummed we were about Unmasked.
Who has #restaurant and sites to see recommendations in #SanFrancisco? #Vacation
20.03.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why do you continue to want to work with these people? Does it matter if the music goes away at SXSW? Nope.
18.03.2025 23:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A special fuck off to John FETTERMAN who likes to gas light everyone into thinking he’s some kind of pragmatic Democrat when he’s just a Republican lap dog.
15.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White Flag Democrats who voted to advance the spending bill; Sens. Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, Dick Durbin, Brian Schatz, Maggie Hassan, Kristen Gillibrand, Gary Peters, and Jeanne Shaheen. I’ve written them all.
#WhiteFlagDemocrats #VoteThemOut
#Punk has lost another godfather. Fly free and save travels though the universe #BrianJamee original #Damned guitarist also #TheLordsOfTheNewChurch
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Again, just stop going to SXSW. No one gets discovered there anymore and haven’t since at best the early 90s. This is not crucial to any band large or small. If for some reason you think it’s crucial start a new ethical festival. You will not fix them.
05.03.2025 20:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every show should be phone free. Nothing worse than some jackass in front of you holding his phone over his head “filming” the whole show, so I’m trying to see around the phone and arms. Do they watch it later? Upload it to whatever for “engagement?”
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Looks like the stuff from the Cheap Trick exhibit from years ago at the Rockford Art Museum.
04.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not much for dance, unless you count Shaw Brothers King Fu movies. I find this mesmerizing. The costumes are exquisite. #Art #Design #Bauhaus #Dance
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A cluttered music setup on the floor, featuring a white electric guitar, an amplifier, and various guitar pedals with tangled cables. There are also scattered items and a lamp in the background.
#Creating can be messy. #Guitar #GultarPedals #GutarAmp
03.03.2025 16:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Was #DaveLombardo the only sane member of #Slayer? Defiantly seems like the cool one. Good to see his positive outlook. Less bitching more doing! #MusicIndustry
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