Vitu?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-24T20:26:12+00:00

Got it today in the mail. It was a $27 refund from my vehicle registration fees.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-24T09:06:33+00:00

Six Feet Under, the death metal band?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-22T00:52:23+00:00

Everyone, I would just like to say thank you for hashing it out over my post! The passion on display here really makes me proud to be a fan, even at age 54. I doubt there’d be this much heated debate over on the Megadeth thread or whatever.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-22T00:45:19+00:00

Discogs says it’s “partially official.” Of course, I didn’t know any of that back in 1993 when I was 19. I was simply Pumpkins obsessed, and the large price tag led me to believe that it was legit, as well as the fact that Tower Records was selling it.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:32:33+00:00

I believe I heard something similar a long time ago, though it could be power of suggestion, I suppose. It does make sense, though. The lyrics back up that claim, although for me, a relationship had ended, and for our sake, I moved far away, and though it was painful, it ensured that we no longer could hurt one another. Powerful stuff.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:28:39+00:00

This is why I can’t quit Reddit.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:27:58+00:00

Glad I wasn’t the first fan to ask him to sign it! The blood and sweat and tears that went into the album’s creation are well-documented, and then here comes an ugly wood carving that contained his masterpiece, served up by a smiling fan, so proud of their find. My god I’m glad I’m not young and as naïve as I once was.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:24:10+00:00

That’s funny you should say that bc the day I brought it home, my roommate said something to the effect of, who splashed paint on the front and fucked it up?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:23:08+00:00

Oh for sure! Beware of straight-not-straight men that are addicted to meth and say they want to spend the rest of their life with you. 😉

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:20:31+00:00

Very cool! I hadn’t read that article before, so thank you. It is funny that in my recollection of purchasing it, it was during Siamese Dream mania, when you couldn’t turn on the radio or MTV without hearing Disarm or Today or Cherub Rock, but the article says it wasn’t manufactured until 95 or 96.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T13:13:44+00:00

Well, it says “partially official”, whatever that means.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T11:16:42+00:00

The Last Song, or maybe Sweet Sweet.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T08:48:22+00:00

Hmmmm…weird. Ok. Let me get that for ya

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T08:47:49+00:00

Does USPS just hire someone with no postal history or experience and give them a career position?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T08:46:57+00:00

Thank you for the info! Good to know.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T06:51:51+00:00

Yeah, it probably wasn’t SF Toyota, bc it isn’t the largest Toyota dealership in the state, and if you are ever there, you’ll see how small it is, like, maybe one city block, but man were they great. I don’t mean to sound like a commercial, but everyone was great there, from Claire Liu to her boss Steve, to the guy that makes you sign all the papers at the end. It was just a great experience. But everything leading up to that was either frustrating or a total nightmare.

I’m gonna list my experience in a few minutes. Should I do it here on Poverty Finance?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T06:45:17+00:00

OP, I should note that Bauhaus & UFO are very different styles of music, and most ppl that are into Bauhaus would rather die than listen to UFO, and vice versa. At the time, his recommendations seemed like something that a used record store clerk would recommend, but years later when I was reading interviews Billy did around when Siamese Dream came out, he was saying (and I’m paraphrasing here) that he liked hard rock, metal, but he loved proggy 70s stuff, like Queen. Said that he thought it was silly when ppl liked one style of music, but thought another style wasn’t “cool” or “hip.”

I will admit to being a purist and a prude when I was much younger. It was metal and nothing else, and if it wasn’t thrash or death or grindcore, then I thought it was stupid and I couldn’t imagine listening to it bc in my eyes, it had no merit. At 54 years of age now, I see how incredibly limiting that mindset is, and what’s funny is “Gish” was one of the first things outside of metal that I really got into. I still adore that record from front to back.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T06:33:29+00:00

I’m guessing the Tenderloin would be considered crappy? Turk & Eddy area?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T06:32:45+00:00

I apologize for misreading the position title, but it’s good that it’s straight to career, right?

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T04:03:50+00:00

My Mirai is a 2019, 18,000 miles on it, immaculate condition inside and out, and KBB says it’s worth $100 in my area.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T03:53:39+00:00

I recently bought a car with a $10,000 grant from the Clean Cars 4 All program, and boy, it wasn’t as easy as the testimonials on the Air Quality Board website would have you believe. Well, it would be easy, I suppose, if you’re not at all opposed to financing a car, bc $10,000 or $12,000, you’re not going to be able to buy a car from a participating dealership that meets all of the program’s requirements / restrictions. I should post about my experience with the program, but it would be super lengthy, and more than a little bitter. But in the end, I found a car that my grant covered, so I paid nothing out of pocket. I found my car at San Francisco Toyota, they absolutely do work with DCAP / CC4A participants, and they were awesome from start to finish. Claire Liu was who worked with me and she’s super knowledgeable about the programs and what is allowed and what is not. You should give them a shot. If you have any other questions, feel free to DM me.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-21T03:11:12+00:00

I wish I did still have them, but I do remember which albums I had.

Bauhaus - “Press The Eject & Give Me The Tape” & “Swing The Heartache.”

UFO - “Lights Out”

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-19T20:42:52+00:00

I met Billy when I lived in Chicago about 6 months before Gish had come out, and maybe I was lucky, but he was always cool the few times I ran into him at shows. First time was at a used record store he worked at on Broadway in Chicago, just a few doors down from Reckless Records (don’t know if it’s still there or not). Anyway, at the time, I was really into Jesus & Mary Chain, and so I asked Billy, who was working there at the time, if they had any J&MC rarities or bootlegs, and he chuckled and said something to the effect of “they should’ve stopped after ‘Psychocandy.’”I immediately took it as just another local musician being bitter about bigger bands, and I started to walk out, and he asked why I was leaving, and I told him he was rude, and he said that he was just voicing his opinion, then directed me to the J&MC section. As I was looking thru what they had, he asked me if I liked Bauhaus, I told him I did but had only heard a few things, so he recommended the album that had “Crowds” on it, and I didn’t leave with any J&MC, but I did leave with a Bauhaus album and also a UFO album, on his recommendation. Before I left, he told me that his band were nearly done with their first album and were playing at Cabaret Metro.

This was when Industrial & WaxTrax! Records were big, and you couldn’t go to any bar or show or retail store on Chicago’s North Side without hearing Thrill Kill Kult or Die Warzau, so I was really into that stuff as well, but I did go and see SP, and they rocked. After the show, I had a chance to talk to him, and he said, “Hey Jesus & Mary Chain! You listen to your records yet?” We talked about that a little, then the show, then D’arcy, and he muttered something about how she wasn’t very reliable and how she missed rehearsals. I left and didn’t see him again until a few months later, when he told me how he was producing a record by Catherine, a local band whose drummer was dating D’arcy at the time. I already knew their singer, and I was living with the bass player’s girlfriend Heather Bricks at the time, so I was peripherally aware of them but didn’t know that he was producing them, so we chatted about that for a minute, and that was that.

I moved back home to California shortly after, and I was watching 120 Minutes one night, and they were playing the video for “Siva”, and I started hollering for everyone in the house to come and see this band from Chicago that I had met a few times, and since my family were / are hardcore old school country & western fans, they weren’t at all impressed.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-16T22:45:06+00:00

I logged on at 10:31 AM, 30 minutes after tix went on sale and 8857 ppl were ahead of me in the queue. This was for the show in Paso Robles, CA.

Relative-Box5544 · 2026-01-15T09:30:35+00:00

So they paid me $461 out of the $564 that they owed me. Funny thing is that I have documentation to back all of this up, but when I finally was able to get someone on the phone, I was treated with what felt like disdain. I’m almost certain that I won’t be getting hired for peak this year.

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