It's called SCORE. If you send Merge the money, they'll send you sweet stuff through all of 2009, totaling up to:
- 14 compilation CDs, put together by persons of varying (sub)cultural prominence, including David Byrne, Amy Poehler, and Jonathan Lethem.
- A CD of remixes of Merge songs.
- A CD of covers of Merge songs from musicians of varying (sub)cultural prominence, including Broken Social Scene, Bill Callahan, and The Mountain Goats.
- A book of Merge's CD cover art.
- A CD from Scharpling & Wurster that is sure to be laff-inducing.
- A box for everything.
- Possibly some other stuff.
I'm such a shill when I get excited about things.
5 comments:
There's no shame in shilling for Merge Records, one of the most consistently awesome American labels of the past decade.
More importantly, why did they leave off Superchunk's magnum opus, "Here's to shutting up?"
There's no justice in this world. Also, if they allowed more than one album per band, I imagine that #9-#20 would have been by Lambchop, somehow.
That's a great list, and they certainly got No. 1 right.
I'd add "Post-War" and "Transistor Radio," by I'm pretty much a teenage girl when it comes to M. Ward.
I once fell asleep during an M. Ward concert.
And that's no slam on him; I love his music. It's just that I had bought the ticket, but then stayed up all the night before working on a paper, went to the show anyway, and fell asleep during M. Ward's set.
Someday I will make it up to him.
And don't forget:
"Possibly some other stuff"
It could be anything, it could even be a boat!
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