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Rob, I don't listen to almost anything "obscure". Go to last.fm and look up some of the bands I like -- tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands of listens from only last.fm users. That's hardly obscure. I just listen to shit that doesn't always have the Thurston Moore seal of approval, which is required for 80% of this board to bother with a band.
Last.fm has really actually opened my eyes regarding the popularity of bands... Magik Markers have about 100,000 plays... that's actually really noteworthy and amazing when you consider the kind of stuff they're doing... Wolf Eyes has about 275,000 plays... granted, a lot of the plays may be by the same people but still. Pretty nuts.
Also... Glice, my point wasn't that they shouldn't cover sun City Girls at all -- my point is, why do they bother? The only albums they've reviewed are those three reissues and a Carnival Folklore Ressurection release (which was limited to like 400 copies)... when they've had a brand new singles collection released last month that pitchfork hasn't even bothered reviewing. I don't understand why they review Kanye West and shit like that, you know, literally reviewing "everything" to appear to be the be-all/end-all source of music, and then they just kinda roughly cover stuff like SCG... why even bother reviewing a reissued soundtrack when there have a recent more noteworthy album that they could be reviewing?
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