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From: andy
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:37 AM
To: info
Subject: thanks

hey guys
my names andy, and i order off your website at least once a month and i
just figured it was about time i got off my lazy stoned ass and say thanks
for all the great music, clever t-shirts, delivery so fucking prompt most
old folk’d say your gettin fresh , oh and all the bonus stuff you guys have
given me over the orders. that i gotta say is what i apreciate most anyways
gotta smoke a bowl b’fore work so thanks again .

your forever loyal customer

andy

p.s : why is it, on the back of the “red red meat – idiot son” 10” your
guys’ adress is writen as beverungan germany just curious ( also new wolf
parade rocked my fuckin face off)

From: Francis
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:43 PM
To: info
Subject: This is a Huge Complaint!!

Thanks again for handling my order in the polite manner you did. I spoke with one
of the people at Sub Pop (Lacey) and she was awesome. I gave you guys the wrong
address and she managed to fix my problem and get the records to me very quickly.
I really appreciate how well Sub Pop treated me.

Thanks again,
Francis

...or maybe he’s been frequenting poetry slams?
From: dj kingsbury
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:31 AM
To: info@subpop.com
Subject: DEARESTBruce, John and THE SUB POP CREW

i got NOFx, bad Religion, Bane, Gorilla Biscuits, Dead Kennedys, Sonic youth, Bad brains, Motley Crue, Bikini Kill,Le Tigre, Crass, Velvet Underground, Interpol, The cure, The Smiths,Screeching Weasal, The germs, X, Youth of Today, Shelter, NIrvana, The Queers, Born Agaisnt, Gohnorea, Skintree, Propaghandi, Mnor Threat, Minch, Jane’s Addiction, Psi Com, All, Black Flag, Mission of Burma, SST, FAT WRECKCHORDS,EPITAPH,A.T. etc, so on and so forth
laying in posters on my wall-
shirts in my closet
stickers on my guitars, drums, books,lockers,car
and I tattooed “Kill all the Whit Men” on my head
with my Mohawk-
I’m just sick at what I am seeing
and hearing about- I am
sick of what i am seeing-
Jello Biafra prolly does work for the C.I.A
the bloated rock star him and his Cronies have become!
Fat Mike sits like an aging psuedo Buddha
nubbing his dog with his hand,
his eyes out of angst- cause
EVERY SONG IS THE SAME!
he talk about George Bush Jr.(his friend?)
and takes the money to his condo
and laughs when he plays poker with his elitist friends-
PUNK IS DULLED
“punk is dead” once wrote crass
though they disbanded
and now make a living out of thier ashjes
brandon cruz replaced Jello in a reformed
DK- i just don’t get that-
all the label i mentioned
are by men
so why can’t katheleen hate men-
most of the punk HITS
talk of how they hate women anyway-
so why do we stay where we don’t belong?
punk is dulled
Mr. brett sold epitaph to the majors-
and all the sub’s make thier profit
BUT DOES ANYONE REALLY CARE ABOUT THE KIDS
WHEN THEY ARE LOST ADULTS THEMSELFS
THOUGH GOTTA MAKE THAT PROFIT,
AND HAVE YER OWN SHITTY SCENE
but desperation gone,
and people still look up ta ya
just the same
what about our hero’s?
‘KILL YR IDOLS’ screamed
thurston back in 85
though bane is doin the same thing
gorilla biscuits and YOT did back then
as well-
PUNK IS DULLED
it has become another stale cartoon
as once lamented J.Biafra occupant- Eric Boucher
where once we wanted to destroy now we only destroy our selfs
maybe that was it from the begining-
just as SID fell through the glass window
then being blamed for nancy O’d
then O’d himself….
and so many are tied to that LOCK
that suffocates them around
thier kneck-
and the needle that bleeds chance into
thier arms
“Kill YR IDOLS…SONIC DEATH, IT”S THE END OF THE WORLD, CONFUSION IS IS SEX?NEXT’ screamed sonic youth
through loud guitars- playing as distortion and noise-
BUT WHAT IS NEXT? AFTER CONFUSION? cause confusion
has only come to dull us-
and are we connected-
or just misaligned/misinformed/led the wrong way
because just as THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT own SPENCERS/HOT TOPIC
do the foces we “rebel” agaisnt own
what we so dearly love-
whether it be PETA or FAT WRECK CHORDS/ EPITAPH
or just punk it self-
there have been band named “BLATZ”
maybe we should have seen
it’s been coming all along-
it’s coming all undone
Early to finish, late to start
We don’t care.
We’ll steel your money.
We’ll steel your show.
“I got your money and I feel fine.”
i guess thats just the way it is
maybe i never understood now
maybe i’m to blame-
i’ll go fart, but i drink coffee
maybe as Kelly said i’m just naive
cause i thought we all belived
in something real and good-
i’m not apart of any elitist group
thats the problem with “punk”
now a days
it’s all classist-
look the same
dress the same
as long as you buy the same shit to
maybe Jello does work for the F.B.I
and Fat Mike does work for the C.I.A
I can see fat mike saying now-
“We don’t need this creativity!”
punk is dulled
i’m telling FAT MIKE!
i’m sick of seeing
the one thing i have loved
since i was a child
die before my eyes-
punk needs to stop being a system
and WAKE THE FUCK UP!

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From: Eric
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:25 PM
To: Lacey S
Subject: RE: Sleater-Kinney Order

Thank you so much! You are without a doubt the coolest mailorder person I’ve ever dealt
with, ever…..evar. I should draw a picture for you like I did for Bekah…..course, then Bekah
won’t feel special and she will have no need to give me stuff and talk nicely to me….

Which do I like more…..the LAL…..or the SK?
Well….

I think I would have to go with Sleater-Kinney. HOWEVER::::

I love Love as Laughter. Love. This album is without a doubt my second favorite album
of theirs ever. Here’s the thing:

I also love Sleater-Kinney, and I think they rock very hard. Their last album was very good,
I thought, but upon further listening it was more tribal than straight up rock. All the tomahawk
beats and choppy guitars. THE WOODS sounds like Sleater-Kinney drunk and listening to fucking
Led Zeppelin and making their own brand of scuzzy, bloated hobbit rock with shrieking and
distortion and jamming straight out of the darkest depths of Mordor.

Laughter’s Fifth is like the most catchy album LAL has ever made, I think. BUT, I like Sea
to Shining Sea more. Possibly my favorite song of theirs is “Temptation Island” which is funny
because that’s the most indie poppy version of Led Zeppelin’s “Communication Breakdown”
I have ever heard, and for that it is AMAZING!!

The thing is, I am totally OVER Led Zeppelin!! I have like 5 of their records, but I don’t bust
them out that often. When I do, I’m into them, but I never put it in the CD player to listen to
over and over again. HOWEVER, I seem to love band’s approximations of Led Zeppelin in
settings that the ZEP would never touch.

Sea to Shining Sea is all druggy and scratchy and pretty all at once. Laughter’s Fifth
is not QUITE that good.

Both albums are not as good as Comets on Fire’s “Blue Cathedral”, or, for that matter, the
live album you gave away during the pre-order for “Blue Cathedral” (got any of those around?
Check that out NOW) Those were unbelievable.

Hope that answers any questions you had!! Sorta…

Eric

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From: Jeff/Ninja Tune
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 2:33 PM
To: press@subpop.com
Subject: Wolf Eyes at CoachellaHey,This is totally random and I’m sending here because I couldn’t find a contact for Wolf Eyes, so feel free to pass it along, have a laugh, whatever.Big fan of Wolf Eyes. Wolf Eyes at Coachella…Possibly the most out of context thing I’ve seen in awhile. Watching them perform with 5 brightly lit palm trees swaying in the background…sure. But awesome nonetheless.Anyway, so I’m watching them play. Prodigy is playing 2 tents over so a lot of people are coming in the tent and realizing it’s not Prodigy then moving on. This young clubbed out/raver girl comes in and stands beside me. Her eyes are all bugged out, clearly fucked out of her head, and she looks terrified. She’s staring at the stage, hands clasped to her chest, looking like she’s having trouble breathing. After about 15 minutes of this I decide to ask her if she’s okay, and was going to suggest that if she’s that fucked up she may not want to be in the way of the noise assault coming from stage. She turns to me and in the most cautious and terrified voice I’ve ever heard she asks “Is this The Prodigy?”. After directing her to the proper tent she set off. But I laughed for hours at what those 15 minutes were in her head. Was she trying to figure out if that was actually Firestarter under all that noise? Was she wondering where the guy with the funny hair do had gotten to. And how terrifying would Wolf Eyes sound if you were that fucked and didn’t know what you stumbled onto. Hell I remember seeing Diamanda Galas do Plague Mass highon acid and I thought I knew what I was getting into.Anyway, that was a great way to end the weekend.Jeff