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Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse

Vulture Club, The: Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse (Utech Records)


 

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Limited edition of 500

Label: Utech Records
Catalog ID: URCD004
Squidco Product Code: 7502

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2007
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock foldover
Recorded July-September 2006 at Teenage Suicide.

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"The guitar is not dead. It is still humming and I believe in it. Copper wound is copper wound, today and yesterday. Magnets are magnetic, today and yesterday. Wood is wooden, today and yesterday. Electricity is electric, today and yesterday. These things shift in their own time and on their own basis. They are not forced and in my own capacity, I do not force them. The editor's role is Advocate. The rattle you hear, that is the energy and the idea. It is not all mine and it is not all theirs and it is not all yours. But it is all ours."

"There was darkness before there was light, I guess. We live in between. Name is Thomas Lee // borne somewhere and will die somewhere too // currently living in Lawrence, Kansas. I reside here because neighbors are not so close and most of them are old and deaf already. Downtown where the hipsters are, I can walk amongst them and no one knows about the amps and guitars. No need to scream about the weirdness because I am invisible and alive // they let me walk fast and away. These are my people is one way or another and I refuse to belong to them. Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse. I can't explain it any better than that."-Thomas Lee


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1. Ancient Nun Stripped Bare Her Head Exploding Foreign Deserts Even Audio

2. Intro to Ghost in a Foxhole Audio

3. Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse

4. Terminal Bed Wetter Enters Lighthouse by Force

5. Alleged Plot to Blow Up the Holland Tunnel During Rush Hour

6. Bringing Back the Monolith

7. The Charred Face of Navy Gnr Yeo



Total time 53 minutes

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