"Six million ways to die, but you can't choose one - It chooses you."
Talking with my buddy Geoff at the Have Heart show on Sunday we pretty much agreed that Cold World's "Dedicated to Babies That Came Feet First" was THE best album of 2008. Cold World are able to incorporate hip hop beats and samples into their music without it being jokey or offensive like Anthrax or Limp Bizkit. I think it helps they have a clue what hip hop is. I don't know how to explain it but it just works.
The first song on the album after the intro is "Boom Bye Bye". That also happens to be the song released as a 7" that Deathwish released months, if not a year, before the album release.
There were 300 of them pressed in total with a special plastic cover and a promo sticker for the new Cold World album coming soon.
Where things got tricky was that you couldn't buy it. At all.
It was a random throw in for people who placed Deathwish orders around the same time as the This Is Hell - Sundowning lp and Shipwreck 7" releases. Don't quote me on the time though. It was a while ago.
I ordered every record and every color variant Deathwish released (and still do). No luck, I didn't get one.
Next, I looked on ebay but no luck there either. A few were floating around but it was going for some pretty crazy prices. I kind of wrote it off as one that just wouldn't happen any time soon.It was a random throw in for people who placed Deathwish orders around the same time as the This Is Hell - Sundowning lp and Shipwreck 7" releases. Don't quote me on the time though. It was a while ago.
I ordered every record and every color variant Deathwish released (and still do). No luck, I didn't get one.
At Sound and Fury last year, Deathwish were one of the first merch tables ready to go when the doors opened. They had a box of random Deathwish 7"s to flip through at the end of the table. Unbelieveably, a few records in, there it was.
Boom Bye Bye!
The best part was Nicole was selling everything for normal, not collector prices. $5. Yup, $5.
I also picked up a DW Limited: "Singles Collection ($5, yup $5 again) and about 4 color variations of the Blacklisted/First Blood split, but I will save that for another time.
Sometimes, things just work out.
deathwish merch table = clutch vinyl pick ups. they always have stuff that is normally hard to find, like in normal stock as if it were a record you could get anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really familiar with Cold World before reading this entry but picked up the record sight unseen because you say it was "THE best record of 2008." Well I must say that it blew me away! This is a great blog, keep it up...
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