The subject on hand needs no introduction. The conversation following was conductednot too long ago at the 'House' (in the quietof Arlington, Virginia), and was transcribedfor your reading pleasure.Thank You.

SoldOut-Howwas the labelorigi- nally inspiredto form? Ian- We were in the Teen Idles from 1979-80.We'd playedfor a year, did some recording, and wanted to put out a record. It became clear that we weren't going to get on a label, so we decidedtostart our own labeland put out our own rccords.A friend of ours, Skip Groff from Yester- dayandToday Records, saidhe'd help us. We'd been playing all this time and we'd never taken anymoney out, ever. We always savedour money, and we used that moneyto putout thefirst rec- ord and start it. By the time the TeenIdles thing cameout, they'd broken up and both Minor Threat and SOA were together. Henry put up his own moneyandput out the SOA,single, and we distrib- uted that. When the money came backfrom those.we Dutit all into the Minor Threat single, which sold a lot, and then we put it into the nextone, and soon. We were totally in debt for years. SoldOut- How areyou motiyated to do eachconsecutive release? Ian- First of all, Dischordis not a labelproper. It's a creativeoutlet for a community here in Wash- ington. We don't sign any bands or whatever. Everybody who is on the label are all just friends, and actually now increasingly younger brothers and sistersof other people we've released. Basically,it's all part ofa family. There's a responsibilitywe feel to continueputting out our friend's music; music that we feel is im- portant and music that we like. It's a documentationthat we rc- ally believe in. There's a lot of really important stuff happening here. There is a lot of important stuff happening everywhere, but to promote a band or whatever, SoldOut- Soyou takeone thing at everywhere didn't document it then we'd undermine our own a time? just and we did. That's why peoPle reputation. The label comesfirst Ian- Yeah, and we kept put- find ii so important with what's on thatlevol, andifthe bandwant ting stuff out. Jeff and I argue a going on here. or need a different kind of finish, lot, not argue anymore, but we SotdOut-You can't denythatit's then move on. They do and that's discussit alot. We both havea lot a fun thing to do. grear. of different ideasof what we want Ian- I don't know if it's fun. It's Soldout- Does it happenon a to do with the label, and some- nice to have records and it's nice good note? where between the two we were tohaveacompany I guess,but no, Ian- Always,I've neverhada bad able to hash out a fairly cohesive it's not alwaysfun. It sucksa lot falling out with a band. manner. I think that Jeff is cer- of the time. There's an over- Soldout- Screamreassured that tainly the one responsible for the whelming amount of work, Par- everything worked out mutually. really high quality, and for the ticularly for apersonthat wants to Ian- Grcat. Dag Nasty seemto control and good look of the rcc- be in a band. For me, I've always think, and I keep readingthis in ords. wantedto be in a band andthat's interviews, that it was terrible. It Soldout- So he deals with the what I want to do, andthe label is wasn't terrible at all, it was totally artistic end of the product? of a side thing. friendly. Brian called and said, Ian- Yeah, and I usually record sort "We're Not so much fun, but gonna be on Giant." I the bands. We sharethe business SoldOut- "Great, satisfying. said, man." I knew that sideofit. Dischordhas three other Ian- It's great.Idon'tregretit. If was what they wantedand I was people working for us that are as fact, god no. I'm totally very very happyfor them. Idon'tcare, much a part of Dischord as any- happy with what I've done. It's I'd rather have a band on another body else. There's Amy Picker- not a greatjob,it sucksto be self- label than to be dissatisfiedwith ing, Cynthia Connolly, and Jenn employed sometimes. Taxes and this one. It's not worth it to me. Thomas. They are a pan of Dis- all of that stuff is really a head- That's also why we don't sign chord. It's not a matterofhelping ache. When you're someonelike bands,we don't wantto getinto a out, they are defrnitely a pan of us, we're very disorganized...I businessarrangement. Every one Dischord.Without themwewould mean,we're prctty organized,but ofthesebands are friends ofmine, not be able to keep up at all. Jeff we have very weird organization. andwe don't sign themorenterin does not have much time at all. When you deal with friends and businessagreements with them He's got his own company,Pe- farnily, it does get a little tense becausewe don't want to havea destrian Press,making his own now and then. It's not all just businessrelation ship with them. postersand T-shins. He's rcally businesseloments. Also, when It's no fun and it's no good. We busy. I'm in a band and I'm not you're like us, you're not trying want to keep friends. We pay going to be able to do mail order. to be a standmdbusiness. The themand we're honestwith them. I don't havethe time to do it, I've recordworld is completelybusi- We don't screw people at all. got enough trouble trying to keep ness, and when trying to go at it SoldOut- The bandsdo getpaid? up with other things. Jennis here from our point of view, which is Ian- Oh yeah,everyone gets paid. almost every day working on sort of anti-business,it causes We pay more than most record stores.We move a lot of shit and enough problems and a lot of compaliespay. Wepay honestly it takes a lot of time, and without headaches. We're taken advan- and we actually pay them. We themwe'd be nowhere.Cynthia tage of a lot. don't fucking bullshit them. and Amy usually take tums, but SoldOut- Have anybands/people SoldOut- Obviouslythe label has Cynthia also helps out with art. you've dealt with ever want you grown. Is tlere a plateauor level Mostpeopleseem to think we're a to go beyond your limits or capa- at which you'd like it to stay,or storc, and that we have like a little bilities? are you content with its current warehouse. Ian- Yes. course? SoldOut- What is your situation Soldout- How wouldyouresolve Ian- I don't malCrass and was in- volved with Crass and all of that. the headquaners,and they basi- one,we didn't want to enterin any So, he came to see us and we cally work for us. We sendthem bad businessrelationshios. The talked to him, andhe wanted to put the tapes and the artwork, and we worstkind of "You rclationshipyoucan therecordout. We did it with him say, putittogerher." I do all haveis a long distanceone. When and it was a good arrangement. of the recording here and every- you havepeople you don't know, Basically, we have total afiistic thing, and Jeff does the artwork and you put out their record,they control and everything, he just andall ofthe mechanics.We send haveto wonderabout you. With pressesand distributes them. Eve- them the negatives and master people who we know here, we rything we've put out, with the exception of a few records, is printed in France. Soldout- Cheaoer? I:rn- lt'scneaper,and we get them over in suchbulk that we can still sell it cheaperthan most Ameri- can labels. It's weird,but it just worksout because we ship them in suchhigh quantity. The last time I went to the airport to pick up our shipment, there were 3400 rec- ords. It all works itself out. With- out him we'd be nowhere. That was a point in time where we reacheda point wherewe couldbe on a plateau,and where we had to makea decision. The big decision we made was to eitler continue putting out rccords,or...wherever we went,we couldn't getcrcdit at plants, so we had to put out one record, wait for the monevto come back in, and thenput ou; rhenext recordand noteven have repressed the previous record. Foi every one of the records we would have been able to put out only a thou- sand, and then put out the next record. John offered us the oppor- tunity to put out theserecords and to keep them all in print. Now, we've sold almost 50,000of Out of Step,and almost 50,000of the "What, Minor Threat 12" thing, and eve- me worry?"Photo- Trent "Run rything is in print, available,and tapesand say, with it." know what kind of people they distributed all over the olace. SoldOut- Where are they situ- are, It's alsovice versa.Wedon't SoldOut- So without him, things ated? have to worry about what these would not be the way they are. Ian- London, England. We re- people in the bands are like. We Ian- Yeah,that was one ofthe big cordedEgghunt there. know our friends are square and decisions we made in our SoldOut- It's understood that whateverbasically, so we can han g 1ives...we11,I mean with the label. Dischord "How only works with local with them. Weknow themandwe It was lilTouch and Go stuff. I mean,iflwas in a bandand pressing,but really it wasn't that is one of the only other labelsto wanted to do the label, I'd do that thepunk scenewas so dePressing, have survived from that time. for sure. I don't want to just own it was that the punk scenewas no SoldOut- What haskept you above a label,I want to be a musician' I longer the punk scene. It had water, yet the other labels of that want to be in a band. For me, the changedwith time. It's natural. day like X-Claim, Fountain of label comessecond. Also with the Generationscome and go, and Youth, etc. have all diminished? whole local thing, when we first people come into different situ- Ian- They've all got different got into it, there was a label from ations. As each punk comes into reasons and I can tell you indi- l,os Angeles called Dangerhouse. it, they've got a different set of vidually why. X-Claimwas never They were one of our favorite circumstances. Really, we just really alabel. Al Barile (SSD)Put labels.They werereallyrepresen- sort of secededfrom the nation out the fiist one on X-Claim, then tative of LA, andwe really wanted and went underground again and the second one came out, then to rcprcsentDC, we wanteda Dc started a new communitY, and guess.He didn't thing. We wantedpeople to say, that's all we did. It's great bs- therewasDYS,I "Yeah, even Dut that out, someoneelse this is from DC. This is a causein Washington the shows put it out, paid for it, andPut the X- DC label, and therefore a DC are so radically different. Like if Claim label on it. It was a great band." Then, everyone would Soulsideor whateverplayed, no concepl it was a free label. But know it was a DC band. It was a skinhead kids would come out to got out of hand be- geat feeling, man. It was great to thosethings. They rarely do, and then things "We cause people would saY, know it. Also really imPortandY, they'd never fight. It usedto be wannaDut it out on X-Claim." Al and this is something clear in our really crazy becauselike Rites of -say, "No!", would because he hean and minds, to keeP it Springwouldbe playingand these didn't want to have anything to do within...we're not even a DC la- skinheadkids would be out there we're a Dischordlabel. The fighting everybody. It was like, with it. Fountainof Youth, aside bel, "What from that they put out somereally peoplewedeal with arejust within the hell is going on?!" Dischordcommunity, because Finally theseskinhead guys real- rotten records...Imean, they Put the "We out a few weird, fucked uPrecords there'sa big punk sceneoutside of ized, hate thesebands, why that peoplejust didn't like. TheY Dischord. There might be a show arewe goingto seethem?Let's go didn't sellbut a couplehundred of with a Dischordband playing and see bands we like." It's great some. Plus, he entered unto a there might be like 300 PeoPIe becausenobody wanted them to be another comeand fuck with anybodyany- really screwylicensingdealwith a therc, but there will "Isn't distributor and got into a weird showon the samenight with maYbe way. Peoplewould say, that . scene.I meanthat's just individ- 1200people there, with like Ag- turning your back on the prob- man! Who ual stuff. There's also Persever- nostic Front or something. That lem?" Well fuck that ance with what you want to do whole kind of punk sceneexists caresabout skinheadkids? You with a label, and who the PeoPle too. so and think of the murder and involved with the label are. The SoIdOut- Do you prefer it that issault going on all across the label hasto make decisionswhen way, exclusive? world at every moment of every the times come and negotiate Ian- It's not exclusive. day.Tome, it's a matterofgetting things as they come...it's tough, Soldout- Well, with the sepam- rid of small barricades. I don't you know. Touch andGo madea tion... wantto spendmy energyarguing what?Heavy metal, with peopleabout whether or not bie decisionin their lives. When Ian- So Punk, "they Corey quit the Necros, he said, androckabilly. All of thesescenes shouldbe beatingup people "I'm gonnafucking do Touch and exist. No, I don't feel a kinshiPto for the colour of their skin" or Go.'' And that labelis all-inspir- a lot of the negative elementsthat whatever.I'm not going to spend ing to me. I think they're a great exist in the mainstream Punk my energyon little dumb things. label. I love them,man. I mean,I community.I don'tlike it, I'm not To me they're just dumb things. don't love every one of their re- interestedin it. Tome, it's alotof Clear, common sensedecisions. leases,but I respectthem more businessbullshit and a lot of really I'd rather get past that and not than any other labelin America uelv stuff soeson. Two or lhree spendenergy on that, and spend that I can think of. TheYare reallY yeius ago, I decided to descend energy on developinga bigger good people as far as their label from the ounk sceneand become community, working over all of goes. They do it all alone;CoreY, an altemative to the alternative. that.Take the thing about I'ighting his wife Lisa, and Boche. They You know, go undergroundto the with cops. Cops arejust tools of the government,there's no point. aryl89 sincemy first showI ever very... They're there to fight and why wenlto. Soldout- Efficient? don'tfight them? I'mnotgoing to SoldOut-Has the time goneby Ian- Yeah,we're very frugal. We stepin, it's not worthwhile to me. try very hardto not betotally waste- It's the samething when people ful. Also, the$8.98 thing is a list "We say, gotta stop these skin- price. It's anacceptedlist price by headkids." I say to ignore them, "Istillfeellikel'm the business,and we're not inter- they're just kids. The skinhead estedinbeinginthe business. (talk kids arejust kids. They fuck with goes into the CDlist price con- people, but there are other people still fuckingyoung spiracy theory) Independentma- that fuck with people too. You jors are generallyjust wannabe- think about it too much, and you and have tons majors. It's all fine and com- getwhooped into it andput a lot of pletelylegit with me, exceptthat I energyinto trying to correct them, moretodo.Imean don't like the fact that they take whenit's not wonh correcting. advantage of people. If people SoldOut- They're pettyproblems really, it's weird. want to pay ten bucks for a record, beggingfor attention,that willjust that'sfine. I think that sometimes wither away with time anyway. In contrastI feel it's worth tenbucks for a record. I Ian- They definitelywill. Itendto wouldn't spendit myself,but...the think that mosl of thosekids wan- old sometimes.but reason we put the records out for der around wanting to be hated so our prices is that frst of all, I'm much, in that to hate them would in reality...I still really stubbornabout the prices. I only inspire them. I mean, the don'tlike spendinga lot of money kids who I usuallytalk to arenice don'tevenfeell'mon records, and I want to keep that guys, and some are real fuckups in mind with my own music. and I feei bad for them for beine collegeage yet. I Secondly,we're trying to be hon- fuckups. But I do not get int6 est with people, grassroots.We hating a class of people, I'11 let don't feel I've want people to rcalize,that we'{e them go abouttheir business. some organic kind of business, Soldout- There are more impor- grownup yet." and that we're not some fuckine tant things to worry about. big business.lt's hard,really hardl Ian- Yeah,I could careless about After eight years,it's hardfor some them. Soanyway,Dischordis like people to take me in a realistic a Dischordcommunity, and a big fast? way. part of tl1atis that wo realize that Ian- Yeah, unbelievablyfast. Soldout- TheMinor Threatvideo sooneror later it has to come to an SoldOut- Doesit worry you? Dischord releasedcomes across end,and that is a really important Ian- No. I've seena lot, met a lot as totally direct, lacking any sort thing for us to think about. of great people, and have done a of insight or understanding. Is Soldout- Has the community lot of things. I still feel like I'm therea reason? gotten smaller? still fucking young and have tons Ian- We talked about it for a lone Ian- No, it still continuesto be more to do. I mean really, it's time. They wantedto haveinterl pretty lively. It's weird. Not only weird. In contrastI feel old some- views,photos, and other stuff, and are times different, but so am I. times, but in reality...I still don't my feeling was...theguy who did I'm asbusy asof all and I live the even feel I'm college age yet. I that footage also did a two-hour label everyday ofmy life. I wake don't feel I've grown up yet. interview with me, my par€nts, up everyday, I'm a punk, I'm still SoldOut- How does Dischord and with all of these different running Dischord, I'm in a band, manageto sell its productso inex- people. Jeff wanted to run it, but andl'm stillinvolved with people, pensively, as comparedto other my feeling at the time and still to 'indies'? "I'm a community, and with political this dayis, still alive,I'm not actionsand soforth. Thereis still Ian- We're strongly supported. dead." I'm not comfortablewith a lot of stuff going on. Every day But the difference betweenus and having a memorial video made, I wake up and I'm still going, so I a lot of those labels is that they which wasbasically what it would guessit's still happeningBut sup- spendtheir money on promotion, De. posedlyby design,it will cometo and we don't. We let the bands Soldout- Were the interviews an end. There will be no more sell themselves. Also, we don't only with you, and not the band? bands, and everyone will have need the samekind of orofit mar- Ian- Yeah. It wasuncomfortable. peteredout. But we'll find out. gin as everybodyelse-does. We I don't mind looking at it, but I'm 'Iook It'lI havebeen ten yearsrhis Janu- live a cheaper life here, we're not a back' kind of oerson. * r very happy and proud to have off for sure. interview. I sound terrible and I beenin the band,I like the band, SoldOut- Was the video origi- canbarely talk. Then,I wasinLA fine whatever.I iike allofthe stuff nally shotfor release? one or two years later and they I've done,but I'm still doing,and Ian- It was originally shot for a were working on the soundtrack that is more important to me than cable TV thing, for a half-hour and they askedme to dub in a part. They originally shot like They wanted me to redo the whole what I've done. Now is moreim- show. "No poftant than then, and now is more forty hours offootage. There was interview,and l said, way." It important tlan tomorrow. I'm so much documentationon Failh, wasstupid, butldid agreebecause hard at work now and I've got Void, us, andinterviews with me. they wanted me to explain what enoughtrouble with the baggage That's the only stuffl've seenout wasgoing on atthat show,why we as it is. You could just imagine of that. That era is so undocu- hadno PA. We got into abig fight what it would be like if I was mentedcompared to the Embrace, with the PA man and he took it deified any more by the interviews Rites of Spring-era. There-'s so away, but we lose PAs all of the and stuff. It was clearly thought muchvideo for that. I'vo gottons time. out, argued, and discussed for a of Fugazi video tapes. (Enter Brenclan(Fugazi) Canty) long time. Shit getsdiscussedlike Soldout- Will youdo anyreleases Brendan,how was work? fuck aroundhere.Itwas like,"No, with the Faith video? Brendan- Okay. I don't want freezephotos coming Ian- No, becausethe videos areno Ian- You love that job. Did my in, fading out, and stufflike that." good. One thing about Minor mom come down? You'd better live, we held it uP. fucking cut her a deal. Itwouldbe nice,I'dlike to havean Threatis that "Hey interview like that, but at the same We were good live, we sounded Brendan- I said, man, an time it's still too alive, it's not goodlive. I'm notsaying that we extra discount for the Queen of over,and I can't do tetrospectives werea grcatband, but someofthe NorthWest." Sheinvited me over like that. Anyway, the last song other bands like. Faith and Void for custard. "Good on the tape, Guys Don't weredodgy. Sometimesthey were (Exit Brendan) Wear White", I thought should really great live, sometimes theY Soldout- I noticed that on the 4 have been edited off. We argued weren't. Lyle, Brian, and Jeff 7"s on a 12" compilation, there aboutit. were fucking tight, it was unbe- was a letter included mentioning Soldout- Why? lievable. That showwas our sec- some hard money times. Have Ian- One ofthe camerashad gone ond to last show in Washington, such oeriods ever taken a toll on out at thatpointin theshow. Num- fifth io last show period. At that your enthusiasm? ber one, for me it was reallY clear point we were like fucking pistol. Ian- At thetime it waspretty dis- that it was taken from the middle We were so hot at that time, we couraging,but we had no choice of the set. The rest of the set is were so on. lt was a good time, in thematter. we were$5000 in virnrally unedited,and that's ex- and that was the last time we ever tho hole at the time. We borrowed actly how the show went. We played the 9:30 club. Another money to put out stuff, and sud- didn't cut out chatteror anything, Stateof Mind is anodrerthingthat's denly we weren't selling any rec- theshow just flew by. Butifyou on all the goddamnedtime. We ords.We repressedMargina lMan "Good look at Guys...",I'm wear- have a songon that, which is the and that thing was sitting'like a ing a shirt again. That bums me only fucking stomachablepart of dog on us, it couldn't sell. It that out, becauseI'm reallY into a that fucking rotten movie. It's sameyear, IRS Recordsused to documentary kind of thing and I supposedto be really authentic, have a distributor called Faulty don't like seeingthings taken out and that is why I hateit so much. that they canned. In turn, this of order. He took it out of the It's really full of shit. It changes distributor called Pickwick went middle becauseit was so shittY it's story aroundand tho chrono- out of business,When Pickwick looking,and put it at theend. TheY logical stuffis tumed around-They wentoutofbusiness, three smaller "If thought. you had a choice, keepchecking in with ShawnStem distributorswent out of business would you rather have it end with (Youth Brigade) and he's bald andall threeof thosoowed us lots "Steppin'Stone"," which l wanted playing, and then that night they ofmoney. In thatoneyear, welost becauseI thought it would have checkin with him andhis hair is $1200-$1500to distributors,and "would beenthe perfect ending,or, grown in. That kind ofstuffdrives we owed a lot of people a lot of you rather have a shitty version of me crazy. As a matter of faci, money. We were discouraged, "Good Guys..."." We arguedand when they interview me and I'm but we were also desperate.We they felt that people would rather talking and my voice is fucked had no choice but to continueat have it on there. That's weird, up... thatpoint, sowe took thefrst four becauseI'm usually the one that Soldout- It soundedlike a bad singlesandput themon one record "kave would say, it on!" I felt cold. as a way to raise money. The that aestheticallvit should come Ian- I'd sungthe night beforethe people in those bandsnever got paid for that rccord. The first labels with people from out-of- (drums)will makethe phone calls, record we paid royalties on was town. DSI is from Virginia, and and get quickly. 've they it done That's Faith/Void, andwe paid every- Druid Hill, who did the Reptile why they did their own singles. body since. We don't pay on the House single,is from Baltimore. The bands should really put out singles.The RitesofSpring single They alwaysasked us to put it out, their own singles, in my mind. lost money, Egghunt made us but we wouldn't do it. We didn't WhatJenny is doingis thatshe is money, and SaladDavs madeus want to sign bands like that, we basically distributing other local money. didn't want to put out thesebands, labels,like DSI, the Ignition rec- Soldout- Since then, has every- so I'd encouragethem to put out ords, lilte Sammich, Hellfire, and thing worked itself out? theirown records. We'dgive them Mark/Kingface records. What we Ian- Oh yeah, we're well in the the halfJabel to help them get do for them is distribute them to black. We shouldcut thatDart our started,and the idea was to help stores. In that way it works out of the poster. Peoplestifproba- them startso that they could con- bly think we're in serious...it's tinue. Most of them didn't last. funny actually, we alwaysget these Sammich started and have thank- letters with people sendingus a fullycontinued.That'smy sister's couple of bucks saying, "I hope label. things get better...". We could SoldOut- What about Scream's neverfigure it out, then one day I This SideUp with RoughTrade? realizedit saiditon theposter,and Ian- We were out of money and people probably still think we're Scream really wanted to put a really bad off. At the sametime recordout. Only thepink one is it's a coolletter, Jeffreally worked RoughTrade. It's a screwy situ- hard on it. It's also an apprecia- ation. Screamwanted to put out tion to the peoplein thosebands. an album and we couldn't afford Another important facet to that it. They'd spent way too much record is that all of our original money in the studio and we releasesare now availablein one couldn't afford it. They were fonn or anotler. shopping around for a label and SoIdOut- Not including the half- RoughTrade said they'd do it, but labels? Screamstill wantedto be on Dis- Ian- With the stuff we did on half- chord so we did a half-labeldeal. labels,we never really had noth- In theenditwas kindof a bummer, ing to do with. We just lent them becauseonce it cameout Irealized thename because it would increase we'd backedourselves into anex- sales. Dirichord 'The swung a big bat clusive RoughTrade deal, which Braincenfre'Photo- Otto and had a good reputation. Early was a real bummer. on, with someonelike Touch and SoldOut- What aboutthe Isnition really well, becausewe can al- Go, they'ddo a half-Dischordand singles? ways sell one or two of their rec- give us like fifty, a hundred, or Ian- They put rhem out them- ords. The more titles you have, whatever.It wasalso kind ofcool selves. The first one they did the more stores will order from becauseit showedthe conceotof alone,the secondone was a half- you. ff someone takes one of buildingthis network ofindepind- label. It came out on their own everythingwe have,that's a fuck- ent labels. We'd stick together label becausethey wanted them ing healthy order. When we had and if they fucked over one per- out dght away "Hey, andwe couldn't do only five records,it wasn't worth son,we'd say, you'd better it. The tradeoff with Dischord is it. Now they can call us because get squarc with these people or that you get bigger distribution we're a DC distributoras well. we're gonnapull on you too." We with Dischord,but it takosforever Soldout- I see you get lots of tried to 6eate that sort of thing. to get the recordout. That's why tapesfrom bands. With the Necros,we just wanted a lot of the bands break uo when Ian- Yeah,it's toobadbecausewe to help them out. With Double-0, the record comes out, the bands won'treleaseany ofit. I'11write a that was R & B Recordsand that can't last as long as the label. It postcardand respond to everytape. stood for Rich and Bert. Rich takes forever to get the different There's only one tape I didn't livedupstairsand I've known Bert partstogether. If you're like lgni- respondto. I forget the nameof forever. hon Cross was Sab, he tion and you want to put it out on the band, but they had this song lived in the front room. United yourown label,it's like ChrisBald c aJled"ZuckenZie Meinen Shlon- Mutation was just a local label. (Ignitionguitar) can do art,so he'I1 gen" or somethinglike that, and We actually stopped doing half- sit down and do the art. Dante that translatedis "Suck My Long Dick". Soldout- That explainsit. Ian- I just didn't like their whole attitude,theywere bullshit. I actu- ally respond to every tape sent, and that's why I'm so behind on my mail. Most of them arenot that good. When people send me a tape, I look at how they present themselves,and how much they rely on really beatenconcepts of self-promotion. If they sendme a I 0,: fact sheetor presskit, it betterbe fucking good becauseI hatepress i,.t kits. I don't make them, I hate them. I think they're shitty. I'm ,9' bumt on alotof music. I like to be challenged,I don't Iike to be se- dated. They are all good tapes,but how much music can a person listen to? I don't keep the tapes. I'11tell you that right now, man. 'The Dischord Dogs' Photo- Otto I'll listen to them, andif I like it I might set it aside, but generally puttingout thiscompilation called working on that. I'm too busy to I'll tapeover the tapes. I'll write State of the Union, which is a work on that,and to getrctrospec- "Thanks them a letter and say, benefitfor homelesspeople. The tive would pull the plug on my... I money is going to go out to a SoldOut- What aboutFlex Your very much for the tape. enjoyed 'Community listening to it." I'll tell them the grouphere called for Head? deal with it, and then I tapeover it. CreativeNon-Violence', and also Ian- Flex Your Head was fairly I've donemy par:t.I don't know if the ACLU. It's going to have retrospective,but itwas aboutwhat you've seenmy room,but I've got Scream,Ignition, Soulside,Bro- was happening at the time. It millions of cassettosand it's like ken Siren, Christ on a Crutch, cameout in 1981,and at the time an albaross. I hate them, I've Kingface,Rain, 3, MarginalMan, it wasfairly retrospectivebecause learnedto hate cassettes.I have One Last Wish, Fugazi, Thoms, Minor Threat had broken up the them' everywhere,I've got mil- Fire Party, Fidelity Jones, Red first time. Lyle went to college lions in my room. Peoplesend me Emma, and Shudder to Think. andwethought it wasall over,and a cassetteand I feel ethicallYbad That's a hefty lineup. It's agood sincewe hadno bandwe sPentthe to taDeoverit. I can't throw them record. If I felt retrospective,I nextfewmonths working ourasses a*uy. Aft"t I write them back, would out out miles and miles of off to put togetherthis compila- I've donemy part. They can't ask unreleasedmusic that would just tion. We put that out in January/ for anythingmore. I can't keepit knock people out, particularly 82,and lo andbehold we reformed asa keepsakeor anything,therc's historian-t1pepeople. I'd love to in ApriV82. It wasfunny because enoughof that. Dutout the Skewbaldstuff. I love before, Minor Threat was noth- SoIdOut- What has sold bestfor ihose songs. That was between ing. It wasn't until we got back Dischord? the first Minor Threat breakupand togetherthat it becamesuch a big Ian- The two Minor Threat 12"s tho refomation. It was me sing- deal. havesold about50,000 each, and ing, Jeff drumming, Eddie from about20,000 ofSaladDays. After Faith and Ritesof Springon gui- Info: 3819 BeecherSt. NW that, Dag Nastydoes very well, tar, and John Paul playing bass. Washington,DC Screamdoes good. Everything We recorded three songs in the 20007usA averasesbetween 3-5000, but the studio,and I love that tape. The Minoi Threat stuff is far above seconddeadline tape is fucking anvthinselse. great,man. It's dynarnite.There's SoioOu-t-What new is comingin unreleasedRites of Spring stuff, termsof releases? unreleasedBeefeater, unreleased Ian- We're not putting it out and everything.Itwouldbe niceto get it's not on Dischord ProPer,but thesethings out, but at the same we're definitely involved with timel don'twant to spendmytime