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I'm lucky I could afford any albums this week. $450 for the bike that normally sits on my trainer to be repaired (price went up 300 bucks when they realised just how fucked it was - needs new chain, spokes on the rear wheel need to be re-tensioned and the wheel retuned, rear cassette needs replacing, both sets of shifters need repairing as does the rear derailyer), $280 for the repair and maintainance on my two guitars, $100 for board (my choice to at least contribute something to the house), $50 for new sunglasses, $170 for new shoes, I literally have $50 bucks in my budget for the next fortnight.

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Deiphago "Filipino Antichrist"

Straight up "couldn't give a fuck" brutality.  Except they do give a fuck, they mean every demented shriek and every frenzied assault on your puny little senses.  They are the school bully with a machete and a kitten's head on a key ring.  They'll take your lunch money, smelt it and make you drink its molten fluid.

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Deiphago "Filipino Antichrist"

Straight up "couldn't give a fuck" brutality.  Except they do give a fuck, they mean every demented shriek and every frenzied assault on your puny little senses.  They are the school bully with a machete and a kitten's head on a key ring.  They'll take your lunch money, smelt it and make you drink its molten fluid.

I saw a few of their titles used at a store in Manhattan today. I'll have to check them out. 

Used purchases:

Voices - London  ...I bought a download a while ago but I'm happy to have a copy on cd as well, one of my favorites from this year. 

Cephalic Carnage - Exploiting Dysfunction

In Flames - Lunar Strain/Subterranean ...cheap enough that I can have them on cd again, at least long enough to give them another good faith effort. I used to really like them. File this under "persistent masochism".

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I saw a few of their titles used at a store in Manhattan today. I'll have to check them out. 

Used purchases:

Voices - London  ...I bought a download a while ago but I'm happy to have a copy on cd as well, one of my favorites from this year. 

Cephalic Carnage - Exploiting Dysfunction

In Flames - Lunar Strain/Subterranean ...cheap enough that I can have them on cd again, at least long enough to give them another good faith effort. I used to really like them. File this under "persistent masochism".

Subterranean is good, but I still think Lunar Strain is amateurish and uneven. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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As for me, NTNR stopped by to trade a few things for the Worship shirt that I grabbed for him at the show, since he claimed he was too broke to spend $10 for a ticket. I traded funeral doom for funeral doom, and got these in return: Profetus - ...To Open the Passages in Dusk Krief de Soli - Procul Este, Profani Krief de Soli - Munus Solitudinis Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

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How is Mike anyway? Since he stopped coming 'round here and disappeared from Facebook I have no idea what he's up to anymore.

 

As for new purchases I fired up the old eBay account today and snared:

Entombed - "Clandestine" t-shirt

Morbid Angel "Extreme Music For Extreme People" t-shirt

 

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How is Mike anyway? Since he stopped coming 'round here and disappeared from Facebook I have no idea what he's up to anymore.

 

As for new purchases I fired up the old eBay account today and snared:

Entombed - "Clandestine" t-shirt

Morbid Angel "Extreme Music For Extreme People" t-shirt

 

We haven't been jamming lately, so I can't really say. I saw him at his son's birthday party a couple of weeks ago and after the Worship gig for the shirt trade, but otherwise I've seldom seen or heard from him in the last few months. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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I got a 10" Duran Duran record called No Ordinary LP if anyone cares.

 

Also got 

Ogre ~ Last Neanderthal with a 45 dropped in sleeve 

The Best of Mountain

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog , which I already have but this is a pristine cover and I only want it for the cover and it was $1 because for some reason no one wants this album.

Whitesnake ~ Slide It In and Come An'Get It

Judas Priest ~ Hero, Hero and Rocka Rolla.

Steppenwolf ~ At Your Birthday Party and The Second. 

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