On the verge of Manson bringing out a new album (I dig the 6 new tracks btw, immature and emoish, yes, but thats Manson for you), I was curious if there’s any Spooky Kids fans here. I’m sure a few based on previous threads.
Anyone know what the deal with the mass of Spooky Kids demo CD’s being released officially is? There are tons of them, is Scott just selling rights to distribute to whoever is paying?
I saw one yesterday at JB Hi-Fi, a 3 disc box set of Spooky Kids demos, for $28 (AUD) which is around what we pay for a new release CD.
I personally haven’t bothered with these, I have hunterMCs FLAC collection of Demo’s, plus those unreleased ones that I leeched from JLW and Bisquit a few years back, plus numerous horrible quality live boots - so I am content with what I have.
But does anyone here have any of these “official” releases? Is the sound any different from the terrible quality of some of the Demos? Have they done any remastering or whatnot, or just banged them straight on a disc and selling direct to the public?
Of all those releases, I did actually buy the “Birth of the Antichrist” dvd a few years back actually, and I have a “genesis of the devil” LP… both of which seem to have been repackaged and renamed more times than… something that changes quite frequently! (Suggestions for a witty end to this sentence welcome).
Yeah a friend has that release, original issue with the shithouse DVD.
It would have been really cool if it had the original Audio (or even a complete performance from these uncirculated early shows) but instead scott dubbed over it with the studio version of the songs.
I dont get how these “bootlegs” can be sold in places like JBHIFI or Virgin megastores though… thats why I thought they must have some sort of “official” thing about them… otherwise Manson surely would have sued them by now for ripping him off? Or Scott, but maybe he hasn’t noticed lol.
Well if you were on slsk five years ago the MP3’s you downloaded from me were sourced from the discs Scott personally sent me, aka the two volumes of what he was going to release in full. The first volume was released, then recalled due to artwork issues.
Volume two hasn’t been released. Chances are if you grabbed them from hunterMC you have the official released demos.
remember gagfish records back during the SLC days? It was an internet guy who had an obscene amount of all sorts of bootlegs and all the demos and sold them till he was shut down by the reverend
The guy behind Gagfish was a poster on some BBS’s, he also leaked Golden Years early and some other material. Didn’t take long for his site to go down…
Yeah, I remember Gagfish, he put together a compilation called “Someone Sung These Songs For Satan” which at the time was probably the best quality copies of the Spooky Kids demos out there. But I guess he got to be such a big bootlegger that he eventually attracted the attention of Interscope and got a cease & desist letter. At the time, I was still waiting for my tapes to come in the mail, but luckily he still sent them out a few weeks later.
As far as those endless reissues of those Spooky Kids semi-bootlegs that show up in legitimate retail chains, from what I’ve gathered the producer or someone who owns the rights to the original recordings keeps putting them out. The fact that they keep re-releasing the same three discs worth of material shows that they don’t have anything else worth releasing unfortunately.
Putesky owns the rights. Maybe it’s easier for him to let the cheap-ass bootleg companies pay him a couple of bucks then it is to put out a second official disc. Which is a shame, because the official versions were taken straight from the four-tracks and cleaned up in Protools. I haven’t heard any of the current crop of bootlegs, but if they’re like the ones I bought in the mid-90s, they’re just dubs from the tapes the band sold at early shows.
At about third-generation, yeah. ATRAC shot me some copies of the originals a few years ago and they were real nice, it really made the shit you heard from those Italian bootlegs sound like total ass.
Why the fuck is Scott slacking? That second disc is gold, jerry!