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Well worth $7.
It was sad seeing how the scene degenerated in the mid 80s.. I discovered hardcore several years after that and wondered why people were so bitter and cynical towards Vomit Thrower -- it was all new to us, we'd didn't have any scene to copy nor did we have the internet.. but our path was certainly made smoother by thousands of bands before us. We didn't have the desperation of bands 10 years before us. We were never into aggression and violence for the sake of scene purity and image. We were just angry geeks with guitars, sick of jangly imitations of Shiny Happy REM and widespread panic, confused about our gender and sexuality, irritated by our parents, distrustful of America's established way of life.
It was sad seeing how the scene degenerated in the mid 80s.. I discovered hardcore several years after that and wondered why people were so bitter and cynical towards Vomit Thrower -- it was all new to us, we'd didn't have any scene to copy nor did we have the internet.. but our path was certainly made smoother by thousands of bands before us. We didn't have the desperation of bands 10 years before us. We were never into aggression and violence for the sake of scene purity and image. We were just angry geeks with guitars, sick of jangly imitations of Shiny Happy REM and widespread panic, confused about our gender and sexuality, irritated by our parents, distrustful of America's established way of life.
