Reliving one of the best punk albums EVER!!!!

So today I broke down and got an Itunes copy of Leatherface "Mush". I'm not the hugest fan of Leatherface. But there is just something about this album, and for such reasons it's rated as one of the best 50 punk albums of all time by too many sources to site. Frankie Stubbs, the lead singer, has a voice like an angel, who's smoked 50 packs of cigs, has had it's heart ripped out, and voice tortured. The melodies have meat hooks in my heart and the choruses are catchy in all the right ways.

As many of you know I hate the Itunes store. I feel it is basically just a way to find a song. They rarely give you the liner notes from old albums and such. At the same time I also refuse to Illegally download anything either. I always buy the albums and rip them to my Itunes. Why... cause I like to know my money is going to the right places (record labels, bands and such), but more importantly I have to get the cover art and liner notes in my hands. Ever since I first got into music I would go out and buy new albums from bands I was into and listen to the whole thing in my car while flipping through the liners and smoking. It was a process, it gave me an educated opinion and really let the music set in. The process was the same with discovering new bands that already existed, like the Clash, Ramones, Snuff, Jawbreaker, and others.

In the digital age, everyone has Ipod (including me), listens to just random or popular songs by artists, the experience of an album is all but dead. I still make the effort to go through the process, and that's what I did today, I haven't heard "Mush" the whole way through in 8 to 10 years. So I downloaded it last night and took the long way to work today, smoked about 4 cigs and reminded myself of a time since past. It was exactly what I needed.

I hope this vinyl revolution that's been teetering for a couple years now eventually gets bigger. I like getting a free Itunes download of the album I just bought on vinyl... I can put it on my Ipod, but I can also just sit down and listen strait though and have the giant original liners an covers... It's an encouraging thought.

Post sequitur - The whole reason why I downloaded "Mush" and reason I started writing this... Leatherface "Mush" is no longer in print. Unless you got a G to drop on the vinyl it's virtually impossible to find on CD. Sorry I should have mentioned that in the above but... well ... I forgot, fuck it!