April Fooled

Hey guess what? Loads of turds bought those Broken World Media 'April Fools' products this year. I think that there was a compilation of every song The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have done played at the same time on a tape. Then a lathe cut of cats. Maybe there was a terrible t-shirt design. Don't get me wrong I love a large portion of their back catalogue; but that is essentially buying crap for a laugh. Expensive crap at that (the lathe was about $10?). I avoided it like the plague, as I got sucked into the same dumb trick last year. I even picked up the Dank Not Stank lathe by Dads (granted I got it from a UK seller for damn cheap), and although I've not sold these dumb novelties I'm definitely over it. 

The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - ssensselmroF - Broken World Media - 1st Press - Clear Shell /50 (April Fools 2013 Exclusive)

Being completely honest, I read 50 somewhere (and that's what is listed on Deadformat) but it could be less or more. I think it was a 24 hour pre-order that was made to order. 

Back Cover // B-Side

Not only is all the lettering back to front, the track-listing is also backwards. It is legitimately the EP played in reverse. 

Hand lettered A-Side. There are no markings on the B-Side. The tape very well may play on the B-Side too, but I never made it through the A-Side so I'm certainly not going back to check. 

Spine view

The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - 4'33'' - Broken World Media - 1st Press - Blue Shell /50 (April Fools 2013 Exclusive) 

Same deal as before with the pressing number issue. 

B-Side // Back Cover 

4'33'' is a cover of a John Cage composition, and for people who don't know what that is this probably seems a reasonable idea. However, John Cage decided to produce four minutes thirty three seconds of nothing but floor noise (and a little drumming in the last few seconds). There are people out there who actually deem this utter tosh to be artistically viable. Obviously all creation is subjective, but this does take the piss, and that's exactly why TWIABP did this (and hence the cover art being a blank set of staves). Do some reading on this if you've not got much going on, people get real uppity about it somehow. 

The 2nd track on this tape is Blank #69. Again, to a TWIABP fan, Blank #69 is a semi-reasonable request as they have various interludes in their releases under the 'Blank #' designation. But the number 69 should have given it away. This is a cello(?) cover of 96 Quite Bitter Beings. Well kind of, it's just the first 4 bars of the song (the intro riff). Thankfully I can hang with those first 2 CKY records all day long, so this gave me a bit of a chuckle and all was right with the world again. 

Spine view 

Here you can see the hand lettering again. Also again, I only made it through one listen of this tape. The B-Side could be completely blank. And to add insult to injury, these are on their bandcamp. It's not even a free download. Utter balls. If some goon would offer me a decent trade for these, they would be soon gone. They'll not get much love from me. Lesson learned eh?