Sometimes I am pretty late to the party, and here is yet further proof. Back in 2008 when this blog was six months old, I picked up a 7" on Livewire Records by a band called Cheap Tragedies. And here we are seventeen years later and I finally got around to picking up their LP, 'Volume 1: Souvenirs & Evidence'.
The band was from Cleveland, which explains why they used this famous mugshot of Jane Fonda holding a CLeveland sign. The story behind it is that she was arrested at the airport charged with smuggling pills, but it is felt that it was really just an excuse as she was at an anti Vietnam war activist and the authorities had her marked as 'trouble'. ANyway, she was released without charge, but the mugshot will live on in popular culture forever.
I remember when the LP came out in 2009 that I was wanting one of the clear vinyl copies. It wasn't a high priority at the time, and a few times I have seen black vinyl copies for sale over the years for cheap, but it's taken this long for a fair priced clear copy to fall in front of me.
Sometimes timing is everything, and even though the 7" didn't make a huge impact on me when it came out, in 2025 this LP sounds great. Fast and dirty hardcore punk rock and just right for Autumn/Fall and Winter. It's just a shame that Volume 2 never came out.
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