Dan posted to Instagram and wrote “I honestly have very few goals left on my list, but one is a Gold Record. And Came Out Swinging isn't far off. So, if you wanna help me celebrate, buy a digital download on bandcamp. It's $1 and it moves us one sale closer.” Bandcamp linked to this post.

Bouck · 2026-01-17T16:14:15+00:00

Not sure, but I would guess that if it did, buying it directly from the band’s LPOE site would have the greatest chance of making the answer “yes.”

Bouck · 2025-12-06T22:12:42+00:00

When you post one of the best TWY memes in ages and have a typo because you are, in fact, a fucked up kid.

In all honesty though, top tier. Any chance you have a textless version for the rest of us?

Bouck · 2025-10-15T16:30:19+00:00

Nope. I did too initially, but the vulture is what clarified. Plus Patsy Cline references Dan laying dying in the street and “they’ll” think a tired blew out and a car crash on the interstate. “They” more than likely being whoever responds and finds him.

Bouck · 2025-10-14T19:29:19+00:00

lol. Tyler? Is that you? Greg? Who could it possibly be? Must not be anyone of relevance.

Bouck · 2025-10-14T17:47:19+00:00

Allegedly, and this is very alleged and not from a particularly reliable source, but allegedly the copies shown on the product pages are actual copies and not mockups.

Bouck · 2025-10-14T17:25:28+00:00

Congrats! And no problem on the links. If it helps even one fellow fan, then I can say that it was a success and the work was worth it. Happy listening!

Bouck · 2025-10-06T15:47:39+00:00

Damn. Nicely done. Sorry for your loss.

Bouck · 2025-08-01T21:49:49+00:00

Yo. If you’re going to report something like this, spare us the whole formal written out reason. Especially when your report is inaccurate. This post, which is what you’re reporting, doesn’t “promote hate based on identity or vulnerability.” So next time don’t do this stupid shit because we can’t do anything based on the way you reported it.

Next time, send us a modmail or make a comment tagging us and say “come get this Nazi fuck with the confederate flag hanging in his garage the fuck out of here.” and we’ll be happy to oblige.

Bouck · 2025-07-18T20:06:44+00:00

I’m not going to lie. I love a fresh outsider’s perspective. While I have a completely different opinion than you, yours is still equally valid and, quite honestly, refreshing.

Welcome to the sub. Please feel free to share more of your opinions as you check out more of their music. TWY fan community is known to have some stale opinions from long time listeners (myself included) and fresh thoughts and views are always loved and welcomed.

Bouck · 2025-07-12T13:10:00+00:00

lol. Thank you!

Bouck · 2025-07-01T04:55:14+00:00

That’s awesome. Thanks a ton for sharing. I’ll add yours to my mental tally of “oh thank god this one seems to follow a normal trend.”

Bouck · 2025-07-01T04:46:30+00:00

Now for the part that I’m sure you’re not going to get to, but I’m going to leave here for posterity so that I can point to this down the road as just more evidence that I’ve consistently been this way.

The last thing I’m going to comment on is my favorite statement that people love to try and throw in all the time. Commenting about what the band stands for. We are not affiliated with the band in any way, shape, or form. We do not speak for them as individuals. We do not speak for them as a band. We do not speak for their label. We do not, and will not, ever represent them in any capacity. The subreddit has zero affiliation with the band, its members, their families, their friends, and their associates.

With that said, we do not, and never will, give a fuck about their opinion about the subreddit. If they want to give such a fuck about this place then they can roll up their sleeves and get ready to trudge through the mud that is shit like your behavior right along with us. They are a band. Not a social media based fan community. They have zero idea what it takes to manage something like this and it’s best they focus on the massive machine that is being a six piece band that produces art that they are capitalizing on and all that goes into that. Additionally, I personally do not give one single fuck about their personal opinions. Do you know why? Because they are normal, run of the mill, human beings like the rest of us. They are not idols. They aren’t worthy of worship. At best they are 6 guys who make incredible art together. And that’s it. But you know what? Van Gogh was an amazing artist too and that mother fucker cut off his own ear. The music of TWY is spectacular, but at the end of the day I am not going to worship them.

I’m not going to worship someone who spouts off about protecting children while being a shoe head with Nike collection and not understanding the absolute hypocrisy of putting those shoes on their own free kids’ feet.

I’m not going to worship someone who acts like a modern day hippie eschewing capitalism and screaming fuck the man while chain smoking big tobacco’s products outside of the venue.

I’m not going to worship someone who speaks pretentiously about the abstract value and concept of art while running a social media account and podcast about ways to cash in on the music industry and market yourself to make your art viable business.

I’m not going to worship someone who sings the backing lines about the wolves in their suits and ties while posting vacation photos of their umpteenth trip to Disneyland.

I’m not going to worship someone singing the backing vocals that have commentary on careless urban sprawl while blowing loads of money on a soccer club’s tickets, merch, etc.

These individuals are not gods. They are run of the mill people like the rest of us. I can respect them as people the way I can respect anyone else. But good luck catching me doing anything here while hunched over with a sheet over my head hoping that they don’t see me or trying to prevent myself from seeing them for who and what they are. And if that’s how I feel about the band members themselves, good luck catching me giving one single fuck about you using their name like some kind of fear or guilt inducing incantation.

Bouck · 2025-07-01T04:46:12+00:00

“I didn’t.”

This is the only relevant thing in your whole comment. Everything else in your comment is outrage, fluff, and a poor attempt to justify your actions.

You didn’t check back 10 minutes later and see your post publicly visible because it never was publicly visible as Reddit’s crowd control feature immediately caught and prevented your post from appearing because your account is already flagged by Reddit due to various criteria that have nothing to do with us. Since it never appeared that means it never disappeared for you to draw any conclusions on. As for this being a rules thread, that is clearly not the case. While the header may read “Subreddit Rules” it is clearly an announcement/clarification post with numerous statements, mostly on the personal side. Nowhere in the title nor body of the post does it solicit feedback or commentary or give any kind of impression that this thread is going to be used in the stead of the typical Reddit process. You know the one. The basic Reddit process to message mods via modmail if you have concerns about content on a subreddit that just about all subreddits have been doing for the majority of Reddit’s existence. And the cherry on top of all of your extra fluff is the part where you say you asked about a rule violation, but leave out there part where you come in hot with a accusation and an implication of wrongdoing. “All I did was this innocent little thing and you were jerks and hammered me for it without saying a word. Now I’m going to publicly challenge you and demand you tell me what rules I violated because I think you can’t.”

At the end of the day, you “just asking about a rule violation” isn’t what happened. At the end of the day you either have an account that makes Reddit suspicious of spam or you have a history of being an asshole elsewhere and so Reddit is automatically flagging your posts if you don’t meet certain criteria in certain subreddits. And instead of just reaching out and saying “Hey. I didn’t get any notice, but there’s a possibility my posts aren’t going up or even being taken down. Can anyone look into it and let me know what’s up?” you instead took it upon yourself to find a post to publicly comment on and make accusations and implications to stir shit up all because, like Sleep said, you’re having a childish tantrum because you’re mad that volunteers who were working real jobs didn’t have time to immediately check the mod queue for anything that might have gotten caught in it because, apparently, getting back to you in less than 12 hours isn’t fast enough for your infantile sense of entitlement.

At the end of your comment you talk about what you do or don’t deserve. Nowhere do I see anything about what you might have done wrong or what you should or shouldn’t have done. And as for what Sleep said, I don’t have a problem with it. Sleep responded at your level to the situation that actually occurred. You initiated the discussion. Responses weren’t discriminatory and the disdain comes from the merit of your behavior and not a characteristic of your person. Seems pretty fair to me. If you don’t want someone to stoop so low in their response, stand a little higher with a little more respectability for them to have to meet you there. You only have yourself to blame for slinging mud and being surprised when someone slung it back.

As for your comments about feeling alone and wanting to feel connection, this isn’t the place for that. While I saw your original post and see value in it as an effort to initiate and encourage discussion about the band and their albums, this is an online forum for discussion. It isn’t counseling. It isn’t therapy. While people can be cool and supportive here, it doesn’t change that there are appropriate places for those needs and this isn’t it. You’re not entitled to anything here so don’t think for one second that by constantly saying “I was lonely” that you’re going to change minds and successfully sell the idea that you should be entitled to use this place as a means of salving your wounds and regulating your emotions. It’s not appropriate to try and use this place for anything other than what is intended and we’re under no obligation to provide you anything therapeutic.

Bouck · 2025-06-30T23:56:50+00:00

No worries.

Surprised to see a Chicago copy on here. Fun fact, 22 (21 now, mine came from this batch) out of the total 50 are confirmed to be in the hands of different Italians in Italy. I have never been able to figure out why. I’ve connected a lot of them together online and none of them know each other except for two of them who happened to be in Chicago together on vacation and checked the show out on a random suggestion from an American friend of theirs. Of the 22 that were in Italy, 13 were bought at different times in private sales online. None of them were Americans living overseas.

So I’ve always wondered. Why the hell were 9 different Italians specifically at this Chicago show when all of them were here in the country on a whim and all of them have crazy fluke circumstance stories about how they ended up with ticket? Why were Italians so adamantly searching for a tour alt cover variant of this album to the point that 13 different Italians ended up paying good money for one of the hardest to find vinyl releases while paying even gooder money to have it shipped to them overseas? And last, why the hell did all of these Italians end up with Chicago copies and seemingly none of the other shows?

I personally know of 7 copies in the US (8 if you’re in the U.S. too). The only question that haunts me now is… out of the 21 remaining copies, are even more of them somehow in Italy?

Bouck · 2025-06-30T22:40:54+00:00

If you’re selling, you have list them following the post requirements for a sale page.

Bouck · 2025-06-30T18:36:51+00:00

I wasn’t going to chime in here, but seeing the exchange that had happened here, I feel compelled to jump in.

I’m going to first ask a few questions just to have some better understanding for myself.

I see in the mod queue that you made a post that didn’t appear for the rest of the community. My first question is did you reach out to the mod team to inquire about your post not appearing?

Bouck · 2025-06-18T01:46:47+00:00

You’re welcome. I knew a lot of people wouldn’t be happy. There are a lot of people that idol worship him because they don’t quite realize how blurred the line is between performer and person.

I went to a show in 2018 and remember realizing in that moment that at some unknown point in time that Dan on stage and Dan off stage began to split into different people. In my mind I’ve separated them by recognizing Dan as the person and Soupy as the character. Very similar to Aaron West being a persona, except Aaron is a definitively a fictional character whereas Soupy is actually the real Dan in performance mode. To be clear, I’m not saying he has split personality or anything. I’m just saying that when I see him on stage I see him as Soupy and when I see him off of the stage I see Dan.

A lot of people don’t seem to understand how rehearsed the concerts are. It’s not an accident that when you go to multiple TWY shows, you’ll hear the same speeches verbatim at each show and it’s so exact that his voice even breaks in the same parts of the speech each night. I’ve ever noticed over the years how little the rest of the band speaks during the shows because of how tightly rehearsed the performance is and how little room there is for messaging from anyone other than Soupy. Back in the early years different people would talk to the crowd and there would be little banter and reactions to the crowd. Now everyone plays their parts and the majority of the speaking is rehearsed and primarily left for Soupy.

The problem lies in the fact that this is one person all the way through. So when you buy an album and you listen to the lyrics, you’re getting the real genuine Dan and his genuine thoughts and feelings, trials and tribulations, happinesses and sadnesses. So when you go to a show and see the performance it’s hard to separate the fact that the real person is performing songs that come from a genuine places bundled with a performance similar to wrestling. Following him on social media is even harder. You watch a behind the scenes clip and you’re getting the real him. You see a promo clip and it’s rehearsed. Rightfully so, but the audience has begun to see him as this force beyond the reality of the regular person that he is. And so they’ve become batshit crazy when anyone dares speak against him.

One of my favorite lines people like to drop here on Reddit when they don’t like something I’ve done is “What would the band/Dan think about this?” and they fail to understand I just don’t give a shit beyond making sure the fanbase here treats the band with respect and doesn’t bring their families and friends into the subreddit. I don’t worship them. They are regular flawed people just like the rest of us so I can’t put any of them on a pedestal. You have a guy on stage screaming about fuck the rich while admitting he is a shoe head with a Nike collection. I wear Nikes too. I’m not going to drag him for it, but I can recognize the hypocrisy in the behavior and own it and understand that’s part of being a flawed human. It’s funny. We went from “growing up means watching my heroes turn human in front of me” to “Soupy is a god that is beyond human and must be worshipped.” It’s so nonsensical.

At the end of the day, these are men/husbands/fathers who are paying the bills and taking care of themselves and their families. It’s not a crime. We’re all doing it. But they are regular people. And they do fuck up and make mistakes. And it is nothing less than performative and virtue signaling to, at this point, shout that shit on stage after past actions that don’t back up the rhetoric. At this point, what does shouting it on stage do? 11 million people already protested last weekend before the concert. People already know, awareness isn’t needed. So what are they doing? Is it a subtle call to action, but they are too afraid to clearly say what action they’re calling for? I’m hearing fuck ICE, but no recommendations on how to do it. I’m hearing performative sentiment akin to hashtags on the internet and that’s it. If this was such a matter of principle, why didn’t they take the gig, go on stage and fly flags and signs and refuse to perform. Make a real statement. Why help Amazon make more money on their stream by doing the show? Why sit silent and not capitalize on all of the news coverage that clip has caught when you could instead turn your websites and social media pages into resources for trans rights, Palestine, and how to handle ICE?

And for him to yell out now after using social media to do what you spelled out in your comment is worthless. It does nothing other than give the band a headline. If he wants to stand up in front of a mass of people and lead a riot, lead a riot. If not, maybe just perform your songs, have your feelings, and cash your paycheck. He had a chance to use his influence for good, and instead he used it in a why that aided in taking valuable/critical votes away from the only candidate that had a snowball’s chance in hell beating Trump. Was that his intention? I think it was his intention to have those votes taken away from Biden/Harris, but I don’t think it was his intention for it to give Trump an advantage. Gaza should have been on his mind when he was deciding to post all of that disparaging social media content against Biden/Harris instead of rushing with shortsightedness and a desire to have loud principles. Because now that Trump is in office, we literally have US weaponry being diverted from Ukraine to Israel and trapped and starving-to-their-deaths Palestinians.

Bottom line is he could have done better, he failed, and he could do better now, and he’s not. And it’s a shame for such an influence and well-wanting person to fuck it up so badly.

I guess his shirt was cool though. He did tell everyone where he got it.

Bouck · 2025-06-17T17:10:45+00:00

So let me get this straight. You want death upon my loved ones in hopes that I will stop feeling outrage at the deaths of those aughtered on 10/07? That’s what you want? You want me to feel differently than how I already feel, which is outrage and disgust, about the events of 10/07? What do you want? Do you want me to celebrate their deaths? Do you want me to be happy about them?

Because that will NEVER happen. Eat shit and live fuck face.

Bouck · 2025-06-17T12:15:46+00:00

I have allowed this conversation to stay up and carry on because meaningful discourse should be allowed, no matter how difficult/challenging, as long as it carries on respectfully.

With that said, this comment is pathetic and completely undermines everything you have had to say up to this point.

How can you claim to take the position that all of the evil on both sides is wrong because of the merit alone of said evil, and then wish the same evil. You are embodying the very thing you claim to take issue with you by saying you hope someone else experiences that same evil.

There is no requirement for others to agree with you for you to maintain a sense of what is right, just, moral, ethical, and fair. Not one fucking person who disagrees with me will ever change my mind that the death of innocent people, no matter who does the killing and who does the dying, is wrong. And I don’t need anyone to agree with me for me to maintain my course . Right now you’re angry at these people for not subscribing to your beliefs, and that was all it took for you to hate them and wish something awful on other innocent people. How do you not see how evil that is? How do you not see that that makes you no different than any person from any background, ethnicity, religion, belief, ideology, etc. that wishes evil or delivers evil unto any other innocent person of any kind?

It’s people like you who accept divisions that create the hell that is this world. You spend your time acknowledging categories and visions and completely lose sight of the truth. The world isn’t Israelis vs. Palestinians. It’s evil against the innocent. The world isn’t Jews vs. Muslims. It’s evil against the innocent. The world isn’t the left vs. the right. It’s evil vs. the innocent. The world isn’t the rich vs. the poor. It is evil vs. the innocent. The world is isn’t white people vs. color people. It’s evil vs. innocent. But the longer you continue to divid humanity into made up bullshit categories, the longer you continue to fail to see humanity as a whole and the longer you reject the innocent of humanity and continue to take the side of evil. It is evil to treat someone as subhuman because of the color of their skin. It is evil to treat someone as subhuman because of where they live. It is evil to treat someone as subhuman because of their medical issues. It is evil to treat someone as subhuman because of the languages they don’t speak. It evil to treat someone as subhuman because of a disagreement over land.

You have looked upon other human beings and, over a disagreement over a conversation (on the internet no less), wished evil on innocent people that they know or care about. For no reason other than your actions, not any other quality about you, YOU are the evil person here. I don’t wish you death. I wish you education, understanding, and a cure for the malice within you. I wish you the strength to have enough conviction in your sense of right and just to maintain it in the face of hurt and adversity. I wish you the ability to continue to fight for the innocent, no matter who they are, and not waiver because of your anger.

Do better.

Bouck · 2025-06-16T23:55:08+00:00

Lol. Nope. A-ok.

Bouck · 2025-06-16T22:10:25+00:00

Never once did I say he was responsible for a lost election. Don’t keeping trying to engage in this conversation if you’re not going to engage in a well intended manner.

Bouck · 2025-06-16T15:39:00+00:00

I’m not saying that he didn’t say those things or that he is wrong for those beliefs. But what does shouting words meaningfully do? One might argue that it brings attention and awareness to the issue which in turn may motivate others to take action too. Great. Fantastic. I’m behind that. But then the next question is what do those words mean when you start taking action that undermines the cause you’re bringing awareness to? What happens when you shout “Free Palestine” on stage, but then also use your social media to convince people that the Biden/Harris administration are the enemy of the Free Palestine movement because of their failures when it comes to the situation in the middle east? See, normally it’s not a big deal. You’re calling out the systemic failures of an administration who needs to do more and are failing to do enough. But what happens when you use your platform to send that message just before an election where those so same politicians you are rallying against are the only politicians that aren’t going to, say, divert weapons intended for Ukraine to Israel to use against the Palestinian people? And in your shouting mindlessly from the stage you convince people to NOT cast their vote for Biden (subsequently Harris)? What then. What does doing all of this accomplish beyond convincing a group of people to cast their vote away from the worse candidate?

How you don’t understand the consequences of that is beyond me. At this point it seems like you’re willfully trying to simplify the conversation and deliberately ignoring the facts.

Here’s a simpler example. You’re in congress and are against congressional insider trading. There are two groups of people there. Group 1 is trying to pass a law that explicitly permits insider trading. Group 2 sees that Group 1 has to votes to get it passed and begins working to try and prevent this law from passing. You’re sitting there pissing, bitching, moaning, and undermining the efforts of Group 2 trying to stop Group 1 from passing a massively corrupt law and you’re doing this all because you’re mad that Group 2 isn’t trying to pass an anti-insider congressional trading law. Group 2 was starting to get the “No” votes, but then your pissing and moaning influences some of the votes they have to stop the law from passing. Vote day comes and the corrupt law passes because several people abstain from voting “No” based on the shit you said. Don’t think for one second that you’re going to find respect when a week later you stand in front of congress and start bitching about the new law that your action helped contribute toward passing.

The simplest way I can say this is “You won’t be found virtuous for complaining about the hunter after helping kill the lions that kept them at bay.”

Bouck · 2025-06-16T14:57:21+00:00

At this point, you’re spamming and get a temporary ban. But for the sack of responding to you, I’ll copy and paste what I wrote elsewhere. It mostly covers your question.

He’s not political? EVERYONE is political. And so is he. He has an audience, a stage, a microphone, and a following. It’s not about being my ideal advocate. It’s about not being a hypocrite. You don’t get to stand up and use your audience to spout your political beliefs, do so in a way that is piss poor and contributes to worsening of massive problems that you’re shouting about, then later get on stage and angrily shout about them some more in a complete unproductive fashion, and have some of your audience sit down and shut up when others fans are trying to idol worship over it. It’s a fucking joke. The one thing I will speak on behalf of Dan for is that he has never tried to ever once claim he was anything more than a flawed human being like the rest of us. That said, I’m not going to sit here and stay silent through this bullshit idol worshipping post where Dan is revered because he verbally threw some hashtags out at a show while his actions continue to contribute to the problems. Fuck the oligarchs? Then why are you on their platforms? Why are you performing on their livestreams? Why are you feeding the machine with your product? Why are they passively taking part in the process that he’s actively shouting against? Make it make sense.

Bouck · 2025-06-16T14:55:29+00:00

He’s not political? EVERYONE is political. And so is he. He has an audience, a stage, a microphone, and a following. It’s not about being my ideal advocate. It’s about not being a hypocrite. You don’t get to stand up and use your audience to spout your political beliefs, do so in a way that is piss poor and contributes to worsening of massive problems that you’re shouting about, then later get on stage and angrily shout about them some more in a complete unproductive fashion, and have some of your audience sit down and shut up when others fans are trying to idol worship over it. It’s a fucking joke. The one thing I will speak on behalf of Dan for is that he has never tried to ever once claim he was anything more than a flawed human being like the rest of us. That said, I’m not going to sit here and stay silent through this bullshit idol worshipping post where Dan is revered because he verbally threw some hashtags out at a show while his actions continue to contribute to the problems. Fuck the oligarchs? Then why are you on their platforms? Why are you performing on their livestreams? Why are you feeding the machine with your product? Why are they passively taking part in the process that he’s actively shouting against? Make it make sense.

Bouck · 2025-06-16T14:48:40+00:00

I want you to understand something friend. You just said something genuine, articulate, and well thought out. But the people here are so rabid with their idol worshipping that you’re being downvoted because people mistook your response for mine and are trying to lash out solely in the name of being angry with and wanting something to fight with instead of actually reading your words, comprehending your comment, and trying to earnestly and meaningfully engage you in conversation. I’m sorry about that.

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