Back in the hey-day of grunge, nothing could get you more kudos than saying you’d been signed up for Sub Pop’s Singles Club subscription service… to the extent that, had everyone who claimed to have signed up actually done so, the guys at Sub Pop would be currently dog-fighting through the upper atmosphere in spacecraft made entirely from cocaine and supermodels.
It was a novel idea, and fairly successful at getting some great obscure bands onto people’s stereos. So good, in fact, that Sub Pop revived it once already - and this year the Singles Club rears its head for a third round.
How does it work? Well, the Sub Pop Singles Club website page should tell you all you need to know, but in essence you pay a one-off fee of US$90 (or only US$75 if you’re a US resident), and then Sub Pop send you a single every month for a year, starting this August coming. There’ll only be one and a half thousand of each single pressed lovingly into real vinyl, and so there’ll be a correspondingly small number of subscriptions available.
Not got a record player? No problem - Sub Pop are hip to this digital thing, and you get a link for downloading high quality mp3 versions of the tunes as well. Artists slated to be included in the twelve offerings include Om, Black Mountain, Black Lips, Blues Control and Notwist.
So, a bargain then. Plus a chance to be the hippest scenester in town - how can you resist? Best get in there quick, or you’ll be reduced to bluffing about how you signed up, but can’t show anyone the records because you want to keep them mint and untouched by human hands…
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