Robin's music ephemera

a pint glass in front of a window. the glass says "the legendary pink dots" in pink

a pint glass in front of a window. the glass says "the legendary pink dots" in pink but because of bad shadows you can't even tell it's pink

Still coasting on photos I took when my lamp was broken. I can't actually remember what this Legendary Pink Dots pint glass came with - it feels early 2000s but could've been late 90s? Someone knows. I bet @brainwashed.bsky.social could tell me.

A VHS cover with a Louis Wain cat playing a mandolin and the title Since Yesterday

The spine of a VHS tape being held up by a hand to show the label - it says VeryVoice of VeryGod Since Yesterday: A Peek into the Pit: 93 Current 93

The back of a VHS tape with a bar code and the "Durtro demon" of Current 93

The text inside the VHS case (extensive and difficult to read)

The last VHS tape for now! Current 93's Since Yesterday. I do still adore their adoption of Louis Wain cats for so much imagery. And I do still detest their embrace of people like Douglas P.

The cd in the back of the long booklet

white poster with some rough folds - an ad for the single Die Laughing/Final Achievement by In Camera

With double-sided poster!

The cover of the long cd booklet (not quite the size of a longbox - slightly fatter and shorter)

The back of the cd packet

The front of the cd booklet open with one side of the very wrinkled poster (the side advertising IV Songs 12")

The back of the cd booklet open with one side of the very wrinkled poster (the side advertising IV Songs 12")

In Camera - Era (2015) cd. These songs are all from 1979-1981 and I don't understand why all the best music happened then. And yes, I hear myself. (1/2)

It's got some etchings but not enough for me to really tell which version it is! Probably if I had enough time to dig through each version I could work it out, but it's otherwise mostly the generic FACT 10 - INSIDE/OUTSIDE and STEP and THIS IS THE WAY

I don't remember - I paid more attention to which stores I shopped at as I got older but in 89 I was just a little kid wandering starry-eyed around all the record stores!

vinyl cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, photographed so you can see the texture

vinyl cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, photographed so you can see the texture

Textured sleeve with the inner white sleeve on top of it

textured sleeve under the corner of the inner white sleeve

I don't know for sure which edition of Unknown Pleasures this is - I've had it since about 1989 or 1990, and I know I got it at some little hole of a record store in NYC. It's got the textured sleeve, but discogs tells me there are at least 6 or 7 textured versions from 1979 and 1981.

That's correct!

ticket stub for Joanna Newsom with Smogh, December 2, 2006 at WOW Hall in Eugene, OR

This was in Eugene OR, the first time I ever saw Joanna Newsom play live, and it quite literally changed my life. Absolutely breathtaking. I've seen her a dozen times since then, but I don't seem to have the stub from when we drove up to Seattle to see her play Ys with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra

a cream-colored mug with 4,A,D on it

the side of the mug where you can see both the handle and the 4

a mug that reads 4,A,D

I fixed my lamp but not before taking terrible photos of my 4ad diner mug!

There was going to be a Liquid Sky 2?!?

Front of a VHS tape which is clearly just a blank with a sticker slapped on it for Mojave 3's Out of Tune- The New Album, Out 1.12.99 featuring the single Some Kinda Angel. 4ad/Sire

the vhs tape half pulled from the sleeve - on the tape itself is just a printed white label that says Mojave 3 - Some Kinda Angel, Sire Records

Another random VHS tape - a promo for Mojave 3's "Out of Tune". The lowest of low-tech.

Would love to see it!

an envelope from Media America to a radio station in Woodstock NY, with notes about the CD and run times, and the cd which says All Access

Throwing Muses / Dishwalla All Access cd and press kit from 1997. I haven't actually played this in years - my memory was there was at least 1 version on here that, in 1997, was not available elsewhere, but I can't be sure. (Discogs doesn't seem to have this release so who knows! Someone, I bet!)

2 black dice, one says Belly and one says KING

2 black dice, one says Belly and one shows a standard 5-dot configuration

2 black dice from the side - you can see the words Belly and King, and the numbers 4 and 5

Belly dice from King!

They're definitely never boring.

A VHS tape in a TDK sleeve with "timeSTEREO Movie Nite" written on the label

You can barely see Movie Nite written on the front of a normal TDK VHS tape

Ok, I don't even know what to say about this one. This is a Time Stereo VHS called Movie Nite. You can see it's literally just a dubbed tape, but in the last 25 years I no longer remember what's on it. I think it's a Noise Camp (Haunted Tube?) recording, but do not quote me on that. I need a VCR!

Amazing! I can't say when mine quietly saw its end. I assume it broke and we tossed it during a move but I couldn't swear to it!

Now all we need is a vcr!

VHS cover, reads Kristin Hersh: selected videos from Throwing Muses and Kristin Hersh

the back of the VHS - Kristin Hersh (with logo). 1. Echo 2. A Loon 3. Shark 4. Bright Yellow Gun 4ad M3

a VHS tape resting on the case that says Kristin Hersh

Selected videos from Throwing Muses and Kristin Hersh on VHS, 1999 4ad

White book called Songwords 1978-1989 The Cure with stylized artwork in black on cover

Copyright page of the book

A page of the table of contents, showing dozens of song titles

The book, open, showing the lyrics pages for The Holy Hour and Primary

My ancient copy of The Cure's Songwords. I got this when it was brand new in 1989 and you can absolutely tell. This book has seen some shit.

Woman with green hair and glasses wearing a grey Kristin Hersh tshirt with a red star and the stylized KH logo while sitting in front of a bunch of books

A rare Robin selfie just to show I'm wearing my Learn to Sing Like a Star t-shirt to work today after all our band t-shirt talk yesterday

Oh I don't know if I knew that!! My condolences!

I have a degree from there and I can't tell you how many people insert that phantom p

(The alt text on these was much better the first two times I tried to upload them!)

cover image of the 7 inch

interior of the wraparound cover featuring the band

the clear flexi with some dog hair

the back of the flexi with information about the band and their forthcoming album

Gonna throw my laptop into the ocean if image uploads don't start working again!

Since we were talking about Strawberry Switchblade, here's an old flexi!

a packet of Mountain Goats pogs from the record Dark in Here (I don't know how to describe pogs. They didn't make sense in the 80s and they don't make sense now)

a packet of Mountain Goats pogs from the record Dark in Here (I don't know how to describe pogs. They didn't make sense in the 80s and they don't make sense now)

Remember the Mountain Goats? They're back, in pog form!

I did wear my Wax Trax t-shirt yesterday but it was under a sweater all day!

It's true. But since I'm mostly a house-leaver for work and kid events, my band t-shirts see shockingly little action!

I know! I don't even get to wear my band tshirts nearly enough already but... I mean, what am I supposed to do, *not* buy it?? Hardly seems like a real option.