Steve Albini - RIP

[Juninhoburger]

Jees, this is grim reading. Hard (impossible) to separate the artist and the art with such grotesque views.

His creative output was largely before my time (apart from Nirvana's In Utero - jesus that's going to be a hard listen now) but his defenders are saying he was very much an 80s edgelord - where pushing the envelope way past societal norms was seen as an artistic choice.

Fact is even up until a few years ago he was publicly defending his friendship with Sotos - a convicted child pornographer.

 

[jetpropelledgiraffe]

According to this article, and there are quoted sources and magazine clippings to verify, this guy wasn't the sort of person who should be getting RIP posts. The article makes grim reading so be warned.

The quotes are detailed and disgusting, they're real, and he wrote similar things in his own magazine, so he definitely wasn't misquoted. He knew his friend was making CSAM and he endorsed it. Those are the important takeaways.

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I had never heard of this guy but saw something on Reddit and I recognised the name again. Thought people should know.

He's called them The Pixies...so he knows nothing this fella

 

[king_hellfire]

In Utero and Surfer Rosa were two of my favourite albums growing up, still are.

Had no idea about some of that stuff he had wrote mind, seems very disturbing.

Mine were The Breeder’s Pod, and Title TK.

 

[Hap]

According to this article, and there are quoted sources and magazine clippings to verify, this guy wasn't the sort of person who should be getting RIP posts. The article makes grim reading so be warned.

The quotes are detailed and disgusting, they're real, and he wrote similar things in his own magazine, so he definitely wasn't misquoted. He knew his friend was making CSAM and he endorsed it. Those are the important takeaways.

Now you have no reason to click

Now That Steve Albini is Dead, Letâs Reflect on His Admitted Love (and Promotion) of Childâ¦

If you are reading this, then you probably have heard that the esteemed rock musician and producer Steve Albiniâââwho produced bands likeâ¦

medium.com

I had never heard of this guy but saw something on Reddit and I recognised the name again. Thought people should know.

Don’t know this producer Albini guy, but the quote about Hamburg in the linked blog is true. I hate stuff like this - we probably almost all do.

It was bothering me that such an obscure publication was being referenced. Hoping to turn up that it didn’t exist or content had been altered in some way, I found Issue #13 is available online and the Hamburg content is there.

https://www.etsy.com/pl/listing/1108395989/1988-forced-exposure-13-chain-gang-no-7?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

But the guy who produced the article says himself that he sometimes says things just for the shock value and is currently serving 10 years for extremist and illegal content / terrorism.

There’s a lot of self promoting crazy people posting all kinds of stuff out there.

The producer guy may have been exactly what’s been suggested, or maybe he also said this for shock value, but I would have chosen another source to cite, than this loon.

I now dislike both of these people and can’t get that hour back…

 

[Juninhoburger]

Don’t know this producer Albini guy, but the quote about Hamburg in the linked blog is true. I hate stuff like this - we probably almost all do.

It was bothering me that such an obscure publication was being referenced. Hoping to turn up that it didn’t exist or content had been altered in some way, I found Issue #13 is available online and the Hamburg content is there.

https://www.etsy.com/pl/listing/1108395989/1988-forced-exposure-13-chain-gang-no-7?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

But the guy who produced the article says himself that he sometimes says things just for the shock value and is currently serving 10 years for extremist and illegal content / terrorism.

There’s a lot of self promoting crazy people posting all kinds of stuff out there.

The producer guy may have been exactly what’s been suggested, or maybe he also said this for shock value, but I would have chosen another source to cite, than this loon.

I now dislike both of these people and can’t get that hour back…

Joshua Goldberg was released in April and immediately started writing articles for Medium again. He was able to publish articles written while in prison too, as Medium is a self-publishing journalism site.

 

[Hap]

Joshua Goldberg was released in April and immediately started writing articles for Medium again. He was able to publish articles written while in prison too, as Medium is a self-publishing journalism site.

I know. I read some of those articles this morning. Like I said; time I would like back.

The FBI said the guy spent upwards of 14 hours a day online, without leaving his mother's house for weeks on end, posting all manner of extremist content - including bomb-making instructions. He created numerous aliases, posing both as men and women, to argue both sides of contentious arguments, even staging arguments between several of his own alto egos.

Clinically diagnosed as being mentally ill, before recovering and then stranding trial and sentencing.

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Don’t know this producer Albini guy, but the quote about Hamburg in the linked blog is true. I hate stuff like this - we probably almost all do.

It was bothering me that such an obscure publication was being referenced. Hoping to turn up that it didn’t exist or content had been altered in some way, I found Issue #13 is available online and the Hamburg content is there.

https://www.etsy.com/pl/listing/1108395989/1988-forced-exposure-13-chain-gang-no-7?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

But the guy who produced the article says himself that he sometimes says things just for the shock value and is currently serving 10 years for extremist and illegal content / terrorism.

There’s a lot of self promoting crazy people posting all kinds of stuff out there.

The producer guy may have been exactly what’s been suggested, or maybe he also said this for shock value, but I would have chosen another source to cite, than this loon.

I now dislike both of these people and can’t get that hour back…

Albini himself reveled in his "edgelord" status for a number of years, and subsequently apologised, but there's a line even when you're doing things for shock value and he certainly crossed a few miles over it.

 

[Hap]

Albini himself reveled in his "edgelord" status for a number of years, and subsequently apologised, but there's a line even when you're doing things for shock value and he certainly crossed a few miles over it.

I'd never heard of Albini before today - not my genre of music. He sounds to have been pretty morally empty - even for the punk era.

I'd heard of Shellac, but none of his other bands. Obviously, I know of people he'd engineered for, like Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana.

Sounds like an awful human.

 

[Fattyfoggon]

Reading this as 6 music are playing a tribute to him not sure what to think now

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

I'd never heard of Albini before today - not my genre of music. He sounds to have been pretty morally empty - even for the punk era.

I'd heard of Shellac, but none of his other bands. Obviously, I know of people he'd engineered for, like Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana.

Sounds like an awful human.

I love Shellac, but feel a bit wrong listening to them.

Still at least we know that Ian McKaye is one of the good guys, and so they cant take Fugazi away from us.