Young Bostworld gets a lot of traffic from folks visiting her big sister, the ten-years-running Meat Puppets site. It’s not much of a stretch to guess that such visitors, hungry for band merch and guitar tabs, turn their nose up at the considerably less rocking offerings found here. Share blogs more firmly planted in the hearts of their readers rack up hundreds of download counts, while we’re lucky if we get a couple dozen. And yet it’s a shame to think that the only people taking advantage of albums by the Dovells, the Klowns or Frank Sinatra Junior are the occasional Googlers from Estonia who actually care about such great artists.
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By this time, any of us who cared about the mid-term elections in the first place are pretty good and sick of the whole thing and just want to forget about it and move on. Now is therefore the perfect time to rub my readers’ noses in the fiasco that is our dreary, exhausting political “system.”
Just when you think you’ll never find another good thrift store record — when you’ve waded through so many Christmas albums, faceless twelve-inches and complete works of Johnny Mathis that you never want to experience the feel of dusty, mold impregnated cardboard again, when you’re absolutely fed up with fending off conversation with all the other middle-aged sociopaths who also seem to gravitate to the Salvation Army record stack when not at their low-paying jobs (if they even work at all) — you run across the gem that thrills your imagination and fuels your expectation for another seven or eight gas tankfuls worth of crosstown forages. “Sound 73″ by The Les Humphries Singers is just such an album.