Stiff Richards – GFC / Empty Barrels 7" (plum) experimental Sonic Youth’s eponymous debut 12-inch

Sonic Youth’s eponymous debut 12-inch was recorded in late 1981 at Plaza Sound at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca’s Neutral label

And while the aforementioned releases came into being via cassettes on the great Roach Leg Records and from the band themselves respectively

Diverging from their regular two person line-up

all the songs and their constituent parts had been plotted individually by van Bakel

rocks of contradiction (in soft focus)

Stiff Richards – GFC / Empty Barrels 7" (plum) experimental Sonic Youth’s eponymous debut 12-inchDo you feel like your money is worthless? Dont you wish you could punish those who made it so? Dont you wish you could get your money back? Dont you wish you could go back to the beginning? Do you ever feel like youre being cheated? Dont worry were here to inform you that it is about to get worse.