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If that is real then that is absolutely insane. I had no idea. I only learned of him recently during a Rick Beato interview, didn't realize the guy was this nuts.

I wouldn't be too surprised if they're real, and yeah it's pretty gross.

Albini was a well known edgelord in his 20s, and liked to say shocking bullshit to provoke & upset people. It's hard to say if this is evidence of anything beyond that.

He has been very apologetic for at least some of his past antics, band names, lyrics.

- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-...

- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/steve-albini-counsel-cul...

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Hard to overstate Albini's influence, both as a musician and producer. Big Black? No one was doing stuff like that in the mid-80s. His production on PJ Harvey's Rid of Me took her compositions to a new level. He also produced a lot of very fine albums in the 80s and 90s by the Pixies (Surfer Rosa), Nirvana (In Utero) and various albums by The Jesus Lizard, Superchunk, and others. Yes, he was cantankerous. Marched to…

He was a legend as musician, and as producer, despite destroying PJ Harvey's Rid of Me. What a major fuckup! Anyway, the way he talked and explained the music business was always legendary.

Search 6+ comments up for somebody with exactly the opposite view of what he did to that track: de gustibus and all that.

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Being hardcore about wearing a uniform by choice is one of those 'I could, and arguably even I should, because it would remove unnecessary choice problems from my life' -But the thing is the people who dive into normcore and buy a wardrobe once of the identi-kit tee and trousers wind up being Steve Jobs fans and nothing, nothing kills the feel more than somebody who is obsessed with Jobs, unless its somebody obsessed with Elon Musk.

I think because he actually was a working creative, this side of Albini's character is less important to the story, but its a side I do reflect on: If I ditched 88% of my wardrobe, I might well be happier. The problem is I have bits of several distinct uniform choices I could select from to be "the one" and I am unsure I am ready to face that decision-battle. He obviously was. I live in tech conference tee shirts which tend to black. They are over-logofied.

(Australian's can elect to wear a particularly odd front-zip or front-popper sleeveless boiler-suit made by Hard Yakka, which I did briefly. I have shy kidneys and peeing standing up is agonisingly slow for me, so I wound up getting tired of the constant bathroom striptease. But that said, I did like them.

https://www.workweardirect.online/collections/hard-yakka/pro...)

For a while in York I wore an ex-USAF flight suit, the one without all the strings for G forces. It was fine but being high-artificial-fibre content, it simply stank. Cotton is better.

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In the full context of the article posted, I think it’s hard to not consider that as anything but an unfiltered fascination with shock depravity - where I think many in society are generally comfortable with the more filtered form (rotten.com, 4chan, etc…)

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I was looking back in time over his catalog of 194 produced records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Albums_produced_by_St...

and boy, there were the hidden masterpieces: Electrelane's Power Out and Axes! Pixies Surfer Rosa, PJ Harvey Rid Of Me (though seriously misproduced), Slint Tweez, Breeders Pod, 4 Scout Niblett albums.

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He was a legend as musician, and as producer, despite destroying PJ Harvey's Rid of Me. What a major fuckup! Anyway, the way he talked and explained the music business was always legendary.

Search 6+ comments up for somebody with exactly the opposite view of what he did to that track: de gustibus and all that.

Search music producer forums and you will the see the same totally opposing viewpoints as for Napoleon Dynamite. They love it or hate it.

Rid of Me is extremely devisive. Excellent record, and extremely influential. Just think of Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days take on it. But Albini's laissez-faire (non-)production??

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