Last fall we released XMAS 3: The War on Christmas in a limited edition of 100 copies packaged with a comic book and sold out the run in a couple of days. We happen to have 50 copies of the CD left over so we are offering those copies for sale this year with a bonus - everyone who orders the XMAS 3 CD will also be entered in a random drawing to win a copy of the long out of print Christmas in Stereo and XMAS 2 CDs.*
Also in keeping with the fact that the original version of XMAS 3 was a benefit for Oxfam, $2 from the sale of each of these CDs will be used to buy toys for kids who would otherwise go without at the Athens Boys and Girls Club.
Of course you can still buy the digital version (including the comic book) from iTunes
The CD includes 20 tracks the Kindercore stable of talented entertainment makers!!
1. Rump Posse - Carol of the Manbarks
2. Folklore - Christmas Ape Goes to The Moon
3. The Observatory - Xmastime (is Xmastime)
4. Fabulous Bird - Everybody Knows It’s Christmas Time Again
5. King of Prussia - Christmas on The Other Side
6. The 63 Crayons - Holiday
7. Ruby Isle - Jack’s Obsession
8. The Buddy System - Xmas on TV
9. Blak Thor - Noel (I’m Giving Love For Christmas)
10. Murder Beach - All Around
11. Mumbletron 2k12 - Outta Bed
12. Je Suis France - Baby, Please Don’t Get Stoned (It’s Christmas)
13. Bunnygrunt - The Blues for Xmas
14. Koncak - It’s Christmas Time
15. Headlights - Kicker of Elves
16. The Show is The Rainbow - Silent Night
17. The Snowsuit Sound - The Ballad of Black Piet
18. Venice is Sinking - The Grey Line
19. The Jersey Barrier - Grey Skies
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Speaking of Ruby Isle (who have a track on XMAS 3), don’t forget to pick up their epic mash of classic rock and party pop on the debut disc Night Shot!
Everyone here is about as pumped as pumped can be about our new President-Elect Barry O and to celebrate we are offering the remaining few ObamaRad shirts in the shop. Pick some up and be the talk of your Inauguration party!
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While you are at the Shop be sure to check out some of the long out of print vinyl from before the fall (which I found in my shed) and have listed for sale at olde timey prices that put eBay to shame!
Before I head off to pack up orders I wanted to let you know about the forthcoming Ruby Isle/Buddy System colored vinyl split 7″ and the first Kindercore release of 2009 - The Songs of the Young Sinclairs. Check out the album art below and friend the boys on the MySpace for sights, sounds and news of touring. Keep your eyes peeled for all of this plus new Buddy System songs (and videos)
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EXCELSIOR!
RYAN
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*The drawing will be held sometime before the end of the first week of December (or sooner if all 50 copies sell out faster) and the winner will get their prizes mailed for delivery before XMAS.
Today’s classic McCain moment comes from August 29, 2005:
Here we have McCain and Bush celebrating McCain’s 69th (yup was even old 3 years ago) birthday while New Orleans was being obliterated by hurricane Katrina.
If you invent money and introduce it into an economy, that doesn’t matter (WRT impact on human lives) as much as where you insert it in the food chain.
It seems criminal (AS HELL!!!1!LOL) to bail out one class of debtors while throwing another class of debtors to the wolves.
If you give the bank monies in an amount equaling the cost of the defaulted mortgages, effectively paying off loans designed to fail, why can you not give the same amount of money to families in financial crisis with the stipulation that they use it to pay off their sub-prime home loans?
The bank ends up with the same amount of money either way, but fewer lives get ruined in the process (poverty kills, mofo!).
If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but please, somebody splain this to me.
Oh right.
My bad.
A nation of happy, financially secure families creates conditions less conducive to the rise of fascism, and thus, is bad (for fascists).
Our friends at Noise Pop have launched The No Free Lunch Campaign with Lewis Black to show support for service industry workers being screwed by buyout firms. They can describe it better than I can so here you go…
“Comedian Lewis Black filmed a “rant” against the greed of these “Buyout Barons.” Indie rock band Radio 4 contributed a great track for it too. Go to http://www.july17action.org to check it out, and find out how you can get involved by signing a petition or registering to attend an action on July 17, 2008 in your area.
Noise Pop became friends with SEIU, the largest Union in the country that represents hospital and healthcare workers, doormen and other service employees, last year in Austin when they partnered with us at our show and Zach Galifianakis brought some comic relief about the healthcare system in this country. It was a great way to engage our audience about an important issue. Now SEIU is taking on Private Equity and once again Noise Pop has teamed up with them to produce our first short film entitled “No Free Lunch”, written and directed by Antonino D’Ambrosio of La Lutta NMC and starring hilarious political comedian Lewis Black with original music by dance-punk band
Radio 4.
Check out the video here - http://www.july17action.org/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASCAama93R0
Below is an article in today’s NY Times about the campaign.
BUSINESS / WORLD BUSINESS | June 4, 2008
Union Takes Anti-Buyout Campaign Worldwide
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
The Service Employees International Union, one of the country’s biggest unions, will call upon people to attend protests against buyout firms in July in 100 cities in 25 countries.”
The perennial Christmas-haters at Lowe’s just don’t know when to surrender, do they? I guess they forgot the fallout from their 2005 attempt at rebranding Christmas trees “holiday trees,” because they’re at it again.
Whether they were trying to wage a daring attack on Christendom or just lighten up the holidays by evoking the excitement of genealogy (or boost disappointing sales by reaching out to non-Christians, but that’s crazy talk,) culture warriors across America were having none of it! Last week, as news spread through the conservative grapevine, Lowe’s customer service lines were flooded with angry calls from thousands of -presumably unemployed and hobbyless- Christians. Not only were they furious that Lowe’s was trying to erase Christmas from national consciousness, they were also upset by the upside-down Christmas tree.
Seriously, who does that?! Forget that upside-down Christmas trees have been around since the Middle Ages and represent the Trinity. They also fit snugly into a pentagram, and if you put one behind a right-side-up tree I think it forms a star of David.
Strategically, we have a lot to learn from our tenacious Christian brothers and sisters. They weren’t slowed by the fear that their attack on family trees might damage their pro-family image, and they showed once again that the best defense is a strong offense. Lowe’s released an official apology, dropped the C-word a few more times on their website, and have sworn to change their catalog before the next pressing. Some people would say that the only thing dumber than denying that those big, tinsel-covered pines are Christmas trees is overreacting about the whole thing. Those people will probably get a lot of angry phone calls very soon.
So far, the score for this season of the War on Christmas is Christians-1; Atheists, Jews, Muslims, hardware stores, and the liberal media-0. Updates as they come.
