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NON COMPACT DISC POST // 21st January, 2025.

Today I listened to Super Cassette’s record “Continue?”

This album was released in 2023 and I originally found it through Spotify’s “daylist” feature. I have known about it for a while, as I strongly enjoyed a song from it that I found, but I just never got around to listening to it until now. The singer, Max Gerlock, has a fantastic tone and melodious voice. This in combination with a fun synthy sound, interestingly fresh effects, and lyrics about relatable and/or very human topics make for a really pleasurable and unique listening experience. TLDR: It sounds like candy for your brain. Not sure how else to describe it.

FAVORITE TRACKS: Bones, Sliver, Continent

RATING: 8.5 out of 10

DO I RECOMMEND LISTENING?: Yes!

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Hello! My name is Randal Thursday. You can find me elsewhere at capitalistboyfriend.neocities.org/

This is a new blog I have created to catalogue (and digitally archive, in the case of self-published and/or unknown records) and offer my ratings of each compact disc I own. I have somewhere around forty to fifty compact discs currently in my possession and I have acquired nearly all of them from thrift shops, the local library, and bargain bins of mysterious and depressingly cheap deadstock.

If I am remembering correctly, I started collecting them in 2021 or 2022. Since then I have very quickly found an excess in my hands, a number of which I only purchased out of pure archival instinct to preserve as much of this lost 2000s art as possible. They are incredibly cheap and generally never over at most $3 per disc. Most often, about $1.50. This makes it very easy to amass large amounts of them over time. CDs today are what vinyl was in the 90s and early 2000s… dirt cheap and in exceedingly large quantities. You need to take advantage of this now if you don’t want to be 30 and discless.

Anyway, the vast majority of these records in the bargain bin at The Dollar Tree(s) are shitty pop, educational songs for children, or in the most numbers: pop punk, emo, and indie rock. This is perfect for me… because I love indie rock. And dated scene kid nonsense. I usually buy based off of the cover and, no, it really hasn’t failed me at all because I know my taste and what it usually looks like. I found my absolute favorite band and record of all time by going off the cover art of a CD in The Dollar Tree’s bargain bin.

As for the records I find elsewhere, it truly is a 100% random selection of donated goods. I shop at many locations. I do generally go off of the covers for these as well when it comes to which I select for purchase because I know I’m most likely to find records that fit my taste that way. Sometimes, I buy bands or artists I’ve heard of but never got around to listening. Despite all of this, I have never actually found an album that I already know and like so I tend to burn my own in those cases, with a huge stack of printed photo discs from my grandparents’ old church and my trusty Panasonic Let’s Note from around 2009 which seems to be at death’s door.

All that aside, I will eventually compile an actual archive on my website for downloading of all the completely unknown, self published records I simply can’t find anywhere else or are incredibly sparse with little to no information about them on the web. I find it very important to extend the life of these works and show them to the world. There is so much music we miss, and we forget about, and we just don’t care about that could be so many peoples’ favorite album on earth (re: my favorite band, Fields).

I strongly recommend you follow along and do the same with your collections or any records you see in the wild that may be the only one still in existence. And please, enjoy my catalogue and reviews : )!

Love, your friend Randal Thursday

P.S. this is a sideblog offshoot of my personal, secret blog, so please send asks instead of comments if you would like me to properly reply.