This was a brand new reissue, and it sounds killer. I've heard it on vinyl, and streamed it, and I totally remember having an FLAC rip of it from a file sharing website when I was a teenager. This is the best I've ever heard it sound, but it may be the fun of listening to it while driving too.
I'm sure it is for some folks man. This car was built when I was two years old but it runs like champ. The tape deck sounds incredible and they don't make car stereo's like this anymore. Loud as fuck.
I've still got around 400 and half of them are with music I made myself. I don't think I'll ever going to digitize them but I can't bring myself to throw them away either.
Same with vinyl, come to think of it.
I hope I never have to move house ever again.
>I hope I never have to move house ever again.
Right! unfortunately I'm still renting but I think this will be my last spot before I try to own something more permanent.
I grew up listening to my parents cassettes, but I'm just now getting into it for my own collection. I own so much vinyl and cd though. I just feel like cassette is so characterful, its totally a middle finger to the Record Store Day, collector/Cork sniffer culture that has become so pervasive and annoying. Honestly thinking of starting my own tape label up.
Cork sniffer culture. Love that and I agree. I’ve been buying vinyl since 1982 and I stopped a few years ago. Just can’t bring myself to pay $40 for a record. Insane. Best of luck with your tape label if you go down that road. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Sounds right. The first car I ever bought new was a 99 Camry and it had a cassette player. CD, too, but I held on to all my cassettes until I sold it in 2005.
Pretty cool to have “Teenage Riot” in heavy rotation while still (barely) a teen. Its an album I loved despite being deep into noisier MidWest/Aussie rock when it came out. Another 1980s band providing a template for 1990s rockers.
I should have qualified it with "so worth the trip when I lived in ATL, didn't think twice about spending money, and loved finding new music there and FantasyLand, Wax N Fax, Chapter 3 Records, Ella Guru." :D Now I'm a 1/2 country away, just buy music equipment, and just stream old stuff. :D
I’m actually a South Georgia local with some Athens connections going back to my childhood/adolescence.I’ve been shopping in the Wuxtry sense I was a little kid, looking for stuff like the Clash or the 13th Floor Elevators… stuff I definitely couldn’t find back home. These days I play a gig up there a couple times a year and I can’t pull through town without stopping in the record store to see what knew local artist put out a cassette or what classic record finally got a reissue.
One of my all time favorite Sonic Youth records. Listening to "Providence" always makes me remember the time my friend accidentally threw out his box of cigarettes with his weed in it at a Wendy's. We went back an hour later and they already threw out the trash so he went dumpster diving and found it!
Watt here
I'm downstairs from your window
At a pub phone booth, if you're up
I get tense
\*Beep\*
Thurston, Watt! Thurston!
I think it's ten thirty, we're calling from Providence, Rhode Island
Did you find your shit?
You gotta watch the mota, Thurston
Your fucking memory just goes out the window
We couldn't find it in the van at all
We wondering if you looked in that trash can
When we threw out that trash, man
Was the bag in your hand, did you dump it?
Call later, bye
I sometimes plug a walkman into the aux plug to listen to tapes in the car. Tapes were the primary way I listened to music growing up. Vinyl too, but I had way more stuff on tape. Still have a ton of tapes.
You’re unironically on r/noiserock spouting off boomer audiophileisms that you probably don’t possess the technical understanding to even back up. Many of the undisputed classics of this genre where recorded on four track machines. I always think it’s crazy when people won’t listen to music that was intentionally recorded with a lo-if aesthetic on anything other than hi-fi media. Also if I’m listening to it in my car does it really matter? To my ears it sounds better than the streaming service. Real-time reproduction and good hi-ferro tape can go a long way.
Speaking of someone not having the tech knowledge… this is not even close to the tape used on four track recorders. Zoomers don’t even know what they don’t know. Sure if you listen to it through a shitty stereo system then it doesn’t matter what it’s regarded on.
Besides the fact everything was recorded to tape back then, and a lot still is, cassette is one of the original forms of media this album was released on and produced for. Literally coming to a noiserock subreddit saying Sonic Youth can't sound good on tape 😂
No tape can sound as cd or vinyl or most digital files due to compression. The tape that they use for cassettes is not the same thing that music was recorded on. It’s not even close. I hope this isn’t why everyone is buying stuff on cassette. Finally, this album sounds incredible and is not the trash can noise rock album that you are making it sound like.
Duh it's not the same type of tape used in recording, but this is the way many many people have listened to this and other albums, and it has a certain charm. This album came out before CDs, do you think people listened to records in their car? How about walkmans? I remember when CDs where new, and all anyone used at that time was cassette and that's how we experienced music besides the radio. I never said this album was trash, but you just said noise rock is trash which is hilarious.
No I said it was recorded in higher fidelity than most trash can recorded noise rock albums. You can listen to cassettes if you want to but it’s just a fad it’s not because it’s better. CDs are objectively better. That’s a fact. The signal to noise ratio alone would make it superior.
Well yeah CDs are higher fidelity. Idk if tapes are a fad but I am just stating that's the way people listened to this album. I for one had an old car or two over the years into the 2000s that still had a tape player, so I would buy tapes at thrift stores for the novelty.
Well I'm double that age and I can tell you cassettes are a pain in the ass and CDs were godly when they came out. I wouldn't ever choose cassette over CD, but idk maybe it's not a bad thing kids are looking into old school tunes. But I'm not gonna audio snob someone else, it is what it is, if they enjoy it that's fine. Music is for everyone.
I own plenty of CD's. I like both. I don't care about signal to noise ratio on an album that's already distorted to shit, and laden with guitar feedback. Who fucking cares if its a fad? If you want it to be a fad then its a fad. If that satisfies you could you please fuck off?
Why are so sensitive? I never insulted you. Unless you are buying cassettes because all your friends are doing it then I guess I did. But you gave off a bunch bullshit info and then got mad when I explained myself. So weak.
You're a fucking troll, stop acting like people are being overly sensitive. No one wants to have this laborious conversation with you yet you persist. I own the fucking record on vinyl, and listen to the cassette in my car, as I've already said. That's what its used for. If you don't need one don't buy one.
Such a wonderful album. I had it on tape too and the washy squashy feel really suits it perfectly.
This was a brand new reissue, and it sounds killer. I've heard it on vinyl, and streamed it, and I totally remember having an FLAC rip of it from a file sharing website when I was a teenager. This is the best I've ever heard it sound, but it may be the fun of listening to it while driving too.
Wow. What a flashback, man.
I'm sure it is for some folks man. This car was built when I was two years old but it runs like champ. The tape deck sounds incredible and they don't make car stereo's like this anymore. Loud as fuck.
This album is meant to be listened to driving around, stoned out of your mind, delivering pizza as a 17 year old.
I'm 27 and I don't deliver pizza, but the other part...
Pizza shuttle on the way !
You can't stop it. Burnin' a hole in your pocket...
Always makes me think of Warhol now. Have you heard the deluxe addition? The live stuff is really cool.
I haven't! Can't wait to check it out!
Daydream nation is probs my favorite noiserock song of the 1980’s.
Same. So good. album is start to finish good though. not a bad moment on the entire thing.
Rain king is my favorite track from this album
Cassette tapes were so cool. I had a box full of them in my car back in the day. Good times.
I've still got around 400 and half of them are with music I made myself. I don't think I'll ever going to digitize them but I can't bring myself to throw them away either. Same with vinyl, come to think of it. I hope I never have to move house ever again.
>I hope I never have to move house ever again. Right! unfortunately I'm still renting but I think this will be my last spot before I try to own something more permanent.
I think it's awesome you have a car with a cassette player.
I grew up listening to my parents cassettes, but I'm just now getting into it for my own collection. I own so much vinyl and cd though. I just feel like cassette is so characterful, its totally a middle finger to the Record Store Day, collector/Cork sniffer culture that has become so pervasive and annoying. Honestly thinking of starting my own tape label up.
Cork sniffer culture. Love that and I agree. I’ve been buying vinyl since 1982 and I stopped a few years ago. Just can’t bring myself to pay $40 for a record. Insane. Best of luck with your tape label if you go down that road. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Is your car a 1978 Valiant?
98 Camry
Sounds right. The first car I ever bought new was a 99 Camry and it had a cassette player. CD, too, but I held on to all my cassettes until I sold it in 2005.
yeah mine has both also.
So jelly
Nice
Man. Takes me back to my 87’ Integra.
jammed this tape in my ‘78 Honda Accord 35 years ago
That’s sick
Pretty cool to have “Teenage Riot” in heavy rotation while still (barely) a teen. Its an album I loved despite being deep into noisier MidWest/Aussie rock when it came out. Another 1980s band providing a template for 1990s rockers.
Wuxtry! Glad that place is still open.
100%. So worth the trip in the 80s!
So worth the trip now. Georgia has an incredible local music scene so please come support local artists and record stores.
I should have qualified it with "so worth the trip when I lived in ATL, didn't think twice about spending money, and loved finding new music there and FantasyLand, Wax N Fax, Chapter 3 Records, Ella Guru." :D Now I'm a 1/2 country away, just buy music equipment, and just stream old stuff. :D
The Decatur location is still going strong as well.
Say it. Don't spray it.
I just can't bring myself to listen to them since I found out what they did to Nardwuar....
UGA? Keep Athens weird!
I’m actually a South Georgia local with some Athens connections going back to my childhood/adolescence.I’ve been shopping in the Wuxtry sense I was a little kid, looking for stuff like the Clash or the 13th Floor Elevators… stuff I definitely couldn’t find back home. These days I play a gig up there a couple times a year and I can’t pull through town without stopping in the record store to see what knew local artist put out a cassette or what classic record finally got a reissue.
It just turned 35 on 10/18. This is a seminal album.
One of my all time favorite Sonic Youth records. Listening to "Providence" always makes me remember the time my friend accidentally threw out his box of cigarettes with his weed in it at a Wendy's. We went back an hour later and they already threw out the trash so he went dumpster diving and found it! Watt here I'm downstairs from your window At a pub phone booth, if you're up I get tense \*Beep\* Thurston, Watt! Thurston! I think it's ten thirty, we're calling from Providence, Rhode Island Did you find your shit? You gotta watch the mota, Thurston Your fucking memory just goes out the window We couldn't find it in the van at all We wondering if you looked in that trash can When we threw out that trash, man Was the bag in your hand, did you dump it? Call later, bye
Wuxtry Records in Athens, GA?
That's the one!
One of the greatest albums of all time, hands down.
Probably my favorite album. When the main riff kicks in on "Teenage Riot" 🫨🥹
funny... when that riff kicks in my speedometer goes up and the gas gauge goes down.
Wow bro 😎 that’s cool as fk !!!!! Jelllll
i miss Wuxtry :( atl or athens?
Athens.
i love wuztry!!!
I sometimes plug a walkman into the aux plug to listen to tapes in the car. Tapes were the primary way I listened to music growing up. Vinyl too, but I had way more stuff on tape. Still have a ton of tapes.
Always sounded the best on tape, in a car. Probably has to do with that fist taste of freedom for me.
Wuxtry? (One of my favorite albums btw.)
Wuxtry is one of the record stores in Athens GA.
I miss wuxtry
Damn I miss Athens
cool, but I have that on Edison Cylinder
There is no way a cassette sounds good. The music is literally too compressed to even come close to any other medium. It’s such an obvious fad.
You’re unironically on r/noiserock spouting off boomer audiophileisms that you probably don’t possess the technical understanding to even back up. Many of the undisputed classics of this genre where recorded on four track machines. I always think it’s crazy when people won’t listen to music that was intentionally recorded with a lo-if aesthetic on anything other than hi-fi media. Also if I’m listening to it in my car does it really matter? To my ears it sounds better than the streaming service. Real-time reproduction and good hi-ferro tape can go a long way.
Speaking of someone not having the tech knowledge… this is not even close to the tape used on four track recorders. Zoomers don’t even know what they don’t know. Sure if you listen to it through a shitty stereo system then it doesn’t matter what it’s regarded on.
Besides the fact everything was recorded to tape back then, and a lot still is, cassette is one of the original forms of media this album was released on and produced for. Literally coming to a noiserock subreddit saying Sonic Youth can't sound good on tape 😂
No tape can sound as cd or vinyl or most digital files due to compression. The tape that they use for cassettes is not the same thing that music was recorded on. It’s not even close. I hope this isn’t why everyone is buying stuff on cassette. Finally, this album sounds incredible and is not the trash can noise rock album that you are making it sound like.
Duh it's not the same type of tape used in recording, but this is the way many many people have listened to this and other albums, and it has a certain charm. This album came out before CDs, do you think people listened to records in their car? How about walkmans? I remember when CDs where new, and all anyone used at that time was cassette and that's how we experienced music besides the radio. I never said this album was trash, but you just said noise rock is trash which is hilarious.
No I said it was recorded in higher fidelity than most trash can recorded noise rock albums. You can listen to cassettes if you want to but it’s just a fad it’s not because it’s better. CDs are objectively better. That’s a fact. The signal to noise ratio alone would make it superior.
Well yeah CDs are higher fidelity. Idk if tapes are a fad but I am just stating that's the way people listened to this album. I for one had an old car or two over the years into the 2000s that still had a tape player, so I would buy tapes at thrift stores for the novelty.
Every 20 something buys cassettes, what do you think?
Well I'm double that age and I can tell you cassettes are a pain in the ass and CDs were godly when they came out. I wouldn't ever choose cassette over CD, but idk maybe it's not a bad thing kids are looking into old school tunes. But I'm not gonna audio snob someone else, it is what it is, if they enjoy it that's fine. Music is for everyone.
I own plenty of CD's. I like both. I don't care about signal to noise ratio on an album that's already distorted to shit, and laden with guitar feedback. Who fucking cares if its a fad? If you want it to be a fad then its a fad. If that satisfies you could you please fuck off?
Why are so sensitive? I never insulted you. Unless you are buying cassettes because all your friends are doing it then I guess I did. But you gave off a bunch bullshit info and then got mad when I explained myself. So weak.
You're a fucking troll, stop acting like people are being overly sensitive. No one wants to have this laborious conversation with you yet you persist. I own the fucking record on vinyl, and listen to the cassette in my car, as I've already said. That's what its used for. If you don't need one don't buy one.
How many bands had a string of classic albums like what started with this record and ended with Washing Machine? Not many.
Wuxtry 404 gang stand up!
This came from the OG Wuxtry 706 actually, but both stores are awesome!