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cover photo of Poguba by @unterhund_ormoz
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! Sorry we didn’t get a newsletter out last week… Jeff and I were loading up a big-ass collection on Wednesday and that ended up taking pretty much the entire day, so I didn’t have time to put anything together. And, honestly, we were all grateful for the break because things have been so busy around here. But don’t feel bad for us at all, because we are stoked to do it.
If you notice this week’s newsletter looks a little different, it’s because we’re testing out a new email newsletter platform. We have been using a service called Mailichimp (which I’m sure many of you have heard of), but after years of price increases (most of them “justified” by upgrades I will never use, like all these stupid fucking AI chatbots that are slowly infesting every piece of software I use) I started to think, “why am I paying someone this much for the ability to send out a few emails per month?” It turns out there are people who do basically the same thing for much cheaper, so we’re trying out one of those. In trying to find a new provider for this service, it makes me think back to the late 90s and 2000s, when basic functionality like this was almost always free. Now half my fucking life is on a monthly subscription. I fucking hate it.
Another note about this week’s newsletter: I decided to do something a little different with the featured releases this week. They’re all records that came out a bit earlier this year, but sold out before I got to write about them in detail for the newsletter. Now they’re back in stock and I think they deserve more attention than they got the first time around, so I’m doing something about it. I hope you check some or all of them out.
Aside from that, it’s mostly standard operating procedure around here, which means killer punk from all over the world. We have a double-size new arrivals section featuring G.I.S.M. DVDs, reissues of classic Kiwi pop post-punk, and plenty more. We have some pretty good staff picks for you this week too. So let’s dive in!
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