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Hi there and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! Not a huge week for new releases, but looking at the list of incoming orders we’re expecting, it’s merely the calm before the storm, and even this week there are several gems. And, of course, there’s always a reason to open the Sorry State newsletter, as our staff is always here to tell you about new and old music we’re passionate about whether or not it landed at the shop in the past week.
The other day I was talking with an old friend and they complimented me on my blog that I used to write 20-something years ago… I told him that nowadays my blog kinda lives in the Staff Picks section of the SSR newsletter, and he had no idea! He just followed Sorry State on social media and thought he was getting the whole story. Not so! I have been really annoyed with social media lately. What started as a fun way to keep up with friends has enshittified itself to where it’s barely even usable anymore… Instagram tries its damndest to avoid showing you any interesting hard posts, I can’t seem to watch stories without accidentally clicking an ad every 3 seconds, and fuck a damn reel. And that’s not even mentioning all the information these platforms are actively suppressing and censoring. We’ve been using social media less at Sorry State, which means the newsletter and website are more important than ever. Keep an eye on them, and if you have a friend who is a fellow music fanatic, do us a favor and let them know we’re here (nearly) every week doing our thing, trying our best to rise above the level of your typical label/shop spam email.
We hope you’ll order from us every once in a while, but if you check out the music we write about on Bandcamp or YouTube or buy it from your own local shop, that’s totally fine too. It’s not about making money (if it was, we would have quit a long time ago), but about keeping punk going. So, rant completed, let’s push the boulder uphill another couple of inches…
Read the rest of the newsletter here!
White Cross photo from Punk Wiki.