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When I was a young teenager, the local newspaper wrote a completely bonkers story that was entirely based upon my mom buying a @RATMofficial CD for me without knowing the lyrical contends. Thread.
When I was in junior high I got a Discman for Christmas. Up until that point I only listened to music casually and didn’t really have a favorite band. Most of the Albums I got were trash that I would end up never listening to again 3 months later, but I did get...
The Godzilla soundtrack, which contained the Rage song “no shelter.” This song blew me away and soon led to them becoming my first favorite band. Flash forward a short amount of time and I gave my mom money to buy me The Battle of Los Angeles album...
My mom was a very very early adopter of Amazon (as I , before 2000). Back then they had a feature in each product that said what area a specific item was popular from. The details are fuzzy, but IIRC it usually said just the name of the city and state....
However, someone a local journalist at the Quincy Herald-Whig somehow discovered it was purchased where my mom worked (a local phone and internet co-op). I don’t remember if the Amazon page listed her company or if this was found out some other way...
Anyways, this journalist wrote an entire article about how funny it was that someone at this local phone company purchase this album (it was in a small town of less than 500 people). Of course this wasn’t a good look for the company and my mom admitted to her boss it was her...
She had purchased the album on her lunch break so other than getting a talking to she didn’t really get into trouble. However, this did raise some unwanted attention to me about the lyrical contents of this album...
That night when my parents got home they made me bring them the album and they both sat around the computer with it blaring through the speakers. They ended up giving the album back. I’m not sure if they just couldn’t understand @ZackdelaRocha ‘s lyrics...
Through our small, distorted computer speakers, or if they just let it slide (I was prepared to pay double for another copy at Sam Goody if it came to it). Anyways, that album rules and it is possibly what opened the gates to me....
Looking at a lot of things in this world with a different view than I would have without getting into Rage. @tmorello also inspired me to briefly try and learn guitar, but I sucked. Also, I totally blasted this album today for my 2 kids to pass it on.
The moral of this whole story is that small town newspapers had nothing better to do than scour Amazon for leads apparently. The end
And damnit I just finished this thread only to see my typo on the very first tweet! Time for a drink I guess
