The Hi-Scores 12" was a big deal to me. I had this font on my harddrive called OCR-something that was a dead ringer for the text on the cover and one of the best shirts I ever made in high school was ironing a homemade logo onto a shirt I found in a pretty close shade of blue to that of the cover-- shit looked legit, I imagine if anybody other than Nat and Geoff cared about sick beats they may have thought I had an official Boards tee, which I was pretty sure at the time didn't exist, at least not on my continent. I copped MHTRTC and loved it as much as I'm able to love records that are that long. I mean, basically I pretended it was only as long as Hi-Scores and played my two favorite sides. I think I have an attention span problem in this regard partially attributable to the many immensely satisfying experiences in the 12" EP format that became available in the years immediately following my discovery that by listening to weird and creative music in my walkman whenver possible I was able to protect a lot of the parts of myself that other entities around me seemed hell-bent on eliminating. Weird thing, though, is that I never tried really hard to find the earlier Boards stuff. I figured that if the band kept those things- which clearly, people like me wanted to get our slobbering mitts on-- difficult to find, for some reason I figured that meant they weren't totally satisfied with those tracks and then I wouldn't be either. Didn't seem like a funny sentiment at all at the time, but it seems peculiar to me now. Maybe it has something to do with all the time I spent in proto-metalcore bands, where a different kind of work ethic pervades, the good old story of striving for excellence, like a dude with a sword in a far-reaching brotherhood of dudes with swords.Anyway, I hope that this copy of
Closes, Vol. 1 I downloaded is the real thing, because the thing I downloaded kinda crushses. I'm amped. I mean-- a legit copy out there among pirates isn't that unthinkable, it WAS on CD, and as far as I'm concerned, if something was released on CD, it's gettable with enough effort. All CDs have been ripped-- at least all the ones of interest to people who are like me and listen to a ton of crucial shit. Hearing this demo/cover version of Roygbiv ("Original numerator") amps me up so much I think I could flip over a car if the volume was turned up high enough. So remember: when you rip your discs, encode in 256kbps or 320kbps at least if you intend on participating in a filesharing community. There's this new .flac thing that maybe you'll start hearing more about when iTunes gets on the fucking boat, but now don't sweat it if you don't already know and make sure to check your Preferences and make sure you're encoding at 256 or higher. I don't really trust variable bit rate, but I'm open to possibility that I'm just being old-fashioned, although I still won't ever use it myself.Yeah!
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