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Jun. 7th, 2021 08:12 pmThis weekend there was a Record Riot in Jersey City. Working from home and the general *waves* means I have not been to my favorite local purveyor of used CDs--Iris Records--in a while.
I have a method when I go through used CDs. I focus on World, and I pick up anything from the Record Labels Real World and Luaka Bop, and any Rough Guides, as I've found those to be consistently high quality. (Yes, I realize this method of acquiring new music limits me to pre-2005ish but LET ME HAVE MY OLD WAYS.)
So I picked up a record from Luaka Bop, and I start it, and it's a little unusual, but I'm digging it. Then I look in the booklet for the translation and HOLY SHIT it is HATEFUL. It is in a language I do not speak, and the lyrical content of the entire album is violent misogyny and homophobia (like, literally, women are evil). I look up the artist, and he describes himself as a masculinist. So. We're done here.
If I stopped listening to Eve by Alan Parsons Project, a formative album for me, because I couldn't deal with the sexism anymore, I'm definitely not making an exception for this random album.
I have a method when I go through used CDs. I focus on World, and I pick up anything from the Record Labels Real World and Luaka Bop, and any Rough Guides, as I've found those to be consistently high quality. (Yes, I realize this method of acquiring new music limits me to pre-2005ish but LET ME HAVE MY OLD WAYS.)
So I picked up a record from Luaka Bop, and I start it, and it's a little unusual, but I'm digging it. Then I look in the booklet for the translation and HOLY SHIT it is HATEFUL. It is in a language I do not speak, and the lyrical content of the entire album is violent misogyny and homophobia (like, literally, women are evil). I look up the artist, and he describes himself as a masculinist. So. We're done here.
If I stopped listening to Eve by Alan Parsons Project, a formative album for me, because I couldn't deal with the sexism anymore, I'm definitely not making an exception for this random album.