note from thurston
 

Friendz, family, petz and alienz --- we, Sonic Youth, are hitting the heavy highwayz of America starting promptly June 13th.

So believe this: RATHER RIPPED is OUT!!!! that day as well. We are celebrating at an already jammed out CBGB. We will then commence to crank the raunch non-stop. Itinerary is on this site, check it. The record is easily found on CD. If you look deep enuff (try our webstore at sonicyouth.com) you can find RR on vinyl LP with completely different cover art. We've also released a 7" of tunes we didn't put on record which are RRAAWW. 1st week of dates are with nashville teenster dynamite Be Your OWN Pet and the rest of tour is mostly with Brooklyn goodtime groovsters Awesome Color. West Coast we're jamming on the Pearl Jam stage, doing some shows with Flaming Lipz and ending it all in a Brooklyn pool with Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We'll be doing some righteous TV destruction along the way, LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (this friday june 16th), and extra face shred with Conan on NBC and Kimmel on ABC. Bust out the Tivo, momma!

Later,

thurston/sonic youth

Wow, we have been in the presence of royalty!

hasent this already been posted?

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=2845

hey, if that's t posting that, a request.

let lee play rats on one of the tv shows in the us of a. he hasn't played late-night in . . . uh, ever. think about it: 100%, bull in the heather, diamond sea, sunday, nevermind, unmade bed, pattern recognition . . . all t or k. no hoarfrost, genetic, skip tracer, paper cup exit, nyc g&f . . .

You know, it's bad form to call "n00b" on one of the actual band members...
Sayin'.

That may be so, but this is an OFFICIAL missive. Bow down, for ye are not worthy.;)

Can we like rep that post? :)

*bows down*

Marleypumpkin's gonna be gutted to have missed that.

Good lass.

our day has arrived! rip the world!

Coo El.

Any chance of some other UK dates Thurston?
I just can't get outa work for the xmas thingy.

hey, why won't you youth show florida any love this tour?

no kiddin!

** "Rock Stars , Is there anything they don't know ?"**

Is this him? Someone already posted the exact thing and it was from Myspace.

If so, hey Thurston. Where is that 39 bucks you owe me?

Go Forth,go Forth And Thrash!!!!!!!!

What Does Rather Ripped Mean

Quite Torn.

years ago, my friend found out thurston moore's aol email address. so he tried emailing it but got a message saying the account no longer existed. he decided to register the account for himself and ended up getting an email from Courtney Love and having an AIM conversation with the chick from Babes in Toyland. When he emailed Courtney back, trying to pimp his band, she responded with vitriol and told him "yeah whatever, go bother my management..." she was angry cuz she thought she had emailed thurston.
apparently her original message read "hey Thurston, lovin ya!"

Be Your Own PET, love 'em, hate 'em, seen 'em?

I saw them with Le Tigre at the Emerson Theater (Indianapolis, IN) last summer. SO good and fun as hell.

aye

hello one & all. i am new here, but not a new sonic youth fan by any means.
i just wanted to ask if that was really, for sure, thurston that posted on here? cause if it was that is very awesome!!:D

it's short for "rather ripped off", which is how you feel after buying the album.

I'll rep if you if I can. You speak the truth, brother.

rather ripped is a very good album. so what if the band's getting a little mellower and simpler nowadays??? They have been together for 25 years now; have we not forgotten? All bands tend to chill out after that long. I mean can't expect Lee and Thurston to play as intense as they used to. Ack. Some of you people expect too much.

Thurston needs to drop the sassy act, he's 65 years old. fucking sonic geezer!

Ahh damn this song on the radio sux ass... "im pushing an elephant up the stairs"

Why aren't you, sonic youth, hitting the heavy highwayz of Austria?????
I even have a ticket for the show in brussels, but i won't be able to go there because i start doing social service (instead of the military service, which is obligatory in austria) and during that time (october 2006 - june 2007) i'm not allowed to leave the country, so i have to give my ticket to a friend of mine.....but i'd love to see you this year....so, why don't you come to austria???

Thurston is just an old-ass man leeching off the noise scene because it is 'hip' and 'underground'.

hahaha
have you even heard his solo stuff? he has been into noise since the early 80s, since before you were even born, you stupid child

Ha ha.

Hrmmm, rather interesting that you and AssBlaster have the very same signature! one in the same i'd have to believe as you also behave very much the same way, always saying negative shit to instigate an online debate...

all your posts and cred points are bogus fool.
everyone knows you're a loser...

stupid child indeed,
but don't bother reasoning with him,
can't reason w/ something dumber than brick.

New albums. good. Kim's songs better than thurstons. Hayden yr a fucking douchey ass prepubecent cunt. Noise is the building block of sonic youth's whole musical creations. And if you think thurstons really trying to be hip then you need to see his tied died tiger t-shirt that he wears. That shits so unhip my dead grandfather wouldn't even wear it. Yr dumb shut yr fucking mouth.

s

very well said, thank you very much. if someone doesn't have any respect for the members or music of sonic youth, then why are they on here?:rolleyes:

hahahahahaha, adam stole that line from me; i posted that a while back!

i feel rather ripped off.

go take it back to the shop then cry baby

No shit!

Ditto.

this is all too funny. i'm highly amused. please continue.