watch out, baby boys: they found an old minor threat tape and they gonna shove it down yo’ throat!!
i’ve still got a minor threat tape (the cassettes are blue, cd’s are red) that i got at wall’s so many years ago. it was wrapped over and over in packing tape, and i had to cut it open. it’s still that way; lumpy and shiny in the floor of my kitchen, waiting to jump into my tape deck and get all ‘80 on me.
God I love Minor Threat: Out of Step.
I had a boyfriend in high school that tried his hand at art only once, to draw in sharpie on a white t-shirt “Minor Threat” with some sheep underneath.
My God, was that brief period Wall’s in Columbus not the best ever?
For the non-State-sters: there was this fire-sale place in Columbus (30 mi east of Starkville on 82, where the beer was cold) that got a shitload of CDs and tapes and shit from some rekkid store that had burned somewhere. Since it was east-central Mississippi, all the really cool shit was left behind by Wall’s usual clientele. My GOD how we made out like bandits at that place. They had NO IDEA about the shit they were giving away for $1 or $2. I made at least 4 trips over there for loot. It was amazing—and it seemed only an isolated group of MSU students (all employed at one place, which shall go unnamed) knew about it. Lordy, we cleaned up. I still listen to shit I scored at Wall’s.
I got every Big Star record there for $5 even though I already owned them…I gave them away to people. I also bought a bunch of Sebadoh records and Mark bought a Japanese Rufus import. Weird. I got, no lie, about 125 CDs there.
preach on, sass!! me & lucas used to go a lot. do you remember how it was such a big deal? i swear folks, i haven’t felt that kind of a feeling—that electric christmas tingle—since those days at wall’s.
the cd’s were CHEAP—like four bucks, max! i got big star’s first two (changed my life), that minor threat tape, a sam cooke 2cd box set, a 3cd set of all-covers by britpop stars galore, and . . . i can’t remember what else. it was wonderful.
lucas, you also got a mc5 cd there, i remember. we got so much stuff. i got a lot of cassette tapes—an eric’s trip one, i remember, that i gave to steve. i wish i still had a list in my head—or could go find the old e-mails to see what we got!
it was a wonderland!
Here’s a short list of some bands whose stuff I snagged at Wall’s: Til Tuesday, Talking Heads, Candy Skins, Lone Justice, Church, Byrds, Jules Shear, The Jam, U2, Jesus and Mary Chain, Elvis Costello, Darling Buds, St. Johnny, X, Waterboys, Hoodoo Gurus, Idaho, and Gumball. There’s more, but I’m too embarrassed to say what they are (i.e., Wham!).
how could i forget? the jam’s greatest. so wall’s taught me the jam and big star—awesome.