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Daaaamn, I need to buy a new record player. My current player changes the spinning speed randomly by itself. For a moment it plays normally in 33rpm and then suddenly changes the speed to 45rpm and stays like that for couple of minutes and then changes it back to 33rpm. Way too many things to buy at the moment...

This could be a whole new way of listening to music, maybe we should start manufacturing them....

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so, does anyone think my cousin Josh looks like Mike Patton?

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Also I think your cousin does look like Mike Patton. Only difference is the nose alittle bit. Crucial.

so i've just seen another piece of album art with a female being trashed. seems like the millionth one to date.



i cannot understand the need for these bands to denegrate women so much in their art? not to mention their lyrics (looking at you, cannibal corpse). whats the deal here? did they not get enough cuddles from their mommys when they were bubbas?

just seems like a huge load of WEAK ..... or that they have small cocks or something. its pathetic to me.

art is freedom and freedom is art and all that, but there is a moral obligation being stepped on here. imo anyway. men have got it so much easier than women in life but we still go around sprouting garbage like the shit as shown above.

oh, and serial killers are the weakest of the lot. little sissy boys.

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It's true, lots of bands (as well as artists in other forms) tend to view violence towards women as a 'thing' which, while not great, isn't bad either. It's more prevalent in some scenes than other, but I think it encompasses something about current masculine attitudes, which lead to problems like rape. I mean, honestly, I know people who use the word rape like a joke, as in "they totally raped that football team", etc etc. I don't really understand what they find funny about it.

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I agree, I never like music that tends to degrade or verbally abuse or threaten abuse on women. Album art as well, all bullshit i tells ya!

i find it ironic that, as you mentioned Storm, this 'scene' represents current masculine attitudes, where violence towards women is 'accepted', when really, i firmly believe anyway, that violence against women is about as un-masculine as it gets.

we as the 'stronger sex' (bah ha ha ha!) should be protecting the 'weaker' (oh damn, centuries old stereotypes coming to the fore) rather than destroying them. i guess that's why chivalry is a dying idea.

yes, i know we aspire to a society where everyone is equal, but whilst we want to believe that is the case, and strive to achieve it, within almost every single mechanism in our societies, it is currently not.

unfortunately, i think our world is becoming more and more acceptant of violence as a means of solving problems and accepting of the idea that it's easier to destroy someone weaker than you than to take the high road.

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I think the violence has always kind of been there. I was reading a book about underground Comix, I remember, and there was an essay in it about how, in these comix, the artists often found it hilarious to show violent acts, such as rape, against women. The more vicious, the funnier. The author of this essay being a woman, she didn't find it so funny, which is why so many women-centric zines popped up in the Comix scene, to combat what they viewed as a fundamental attack on their sex by males expressing some bizarre urge.

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yeah, i cannot comprehend this at all. desentization gone mad? this goes beyond what should be acceptable as 'art'.

its a good thing that the essay writer brought this to some kindof attention. i wonder how many of these testosterone fueled yobs that wrote these comix or got off on the content, read the essay and thought about the reasons why they like these comix, rather than just cackle at the essay itself.

i know its a veritable 44 gallon drum of worms that can opened with this type of subject matter and the repercussions for our freedoms and the like, but does it not come down the person doing the art to stand up to their moral obligations, rather than just going for the extreme for extreme-sakes.

i guess if that were the case, we wouldn't have the cinematic masterpiece's that were Hostel and Hostel 2...

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