Catalog
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BANDIT RELEASES
P.T. BURNEM
Paper Cranes cd
$6-$8 ppd sliding scale
out now!
PAULIE THINK
Feel This cd
$8-$10 ppd. sliding scale
shpis w/ full color poster while supplies last
One of the best underground hip hop albums of 2010! On Feel This, Paulie Think mixes his conscious lyrical style with his sense of humor over feel good, crunk and trip hop beats. His respect for the old school comes through often even while he pushes his hip hop style forword. Songs about china town, escaping da pigs, taken out suckas’, black holes, pinball and more! Features guest rappers PT Burnem, Sleep of old dominion, Chi-Ill and more. Keep your eyes open for the video of Pocket Full of Quaters out late september.
WINGNUT DISHWASHER’S UNION
Burn the earth, leave it behind CD
$6-$20 ppd. sliding scale
After many years of misery, addiction, and nihilism Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains finally burned to the ground. Now out of the ashes rises Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union. While Johnny Hobo songs made people want to shoot dope, WDU songs just might make you want to shoot a capitalist.
On this album WDU performs most of the songs as a full on, electric punk band (including members of Endless Mike & The Beagle Club). There are still many moments of raw acoustic feeling to be found, while the new electric sound enhances instead of replacing what is already there, by co-existing side by side with singer Pat The Bunny and his bloody guitar strumming.
Overall the lyrics offer hope and a desire for social change with Diy Anarchist politics woven into the entire album. Pat The Bunny uses words like “Anarchy” and “Freedom” and actually knows what he’s talking about. This is gutter rock at its finest!
This CD is a benefit, with all funds going towards obtaining and maintaining a bus for a free DIY Anarchist transportation program.
$6-$8 donation gets you the cd
$9-$11 donation gets you the cd and a full color wdu poster
$12-$14 donation gets you cd/poster & sticker
$15-$20 donation gets you the cd, poster, sticker & special edition cover offset printing on chipboard-*these are numbered & limited to 350 copies
JOHNNY HOBO AND THE FREIGHT TRAINS / MANTITS
Love songs for the apocalypse split cd
$6-$8 ppd. sliding scale
OUT OF PRINT
This cd is no longer available-sorry
The release that started it all!
Just when everything else seems to be an attempt to copy the latest cool thing, Johnny Hobo & Mantits dish out something truly revolutionary. Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains offer 9 non-electric songs that maintain the energy and rawness that punk was founded on. They’ll have you singing along and provide a perspective of the punk/anarchist idea that many are afraid to even approach. It will make you think, laugh, and possibly piss you off. 40oz nihilism with a shot of politics and a healthy punch to the face make this something to hide from your parents (if Ghost Mice was getting drunk on a bus with Leftover Crack and picked up the Mountain Goats and a stranger with a bag full of coffee & narcotics you’d have a hint of what to expect here.)
Mantits provides a solo-acoustic approach to the situation with 9 songs that redefine the meaning of everything. A mastermind without a doubt, he provides intelligent sarcasm while dissecting the problems of the human race. He tells you how it is with witty cynicism and humor; leaving you either shocked or begging for more. If anyone was to ever write a soundtrack of love songs for the (apocalypse) end times, Mantits would get the first shot at it. Everything you were afraid to admit about yourself (and the human race) can be revealed through him.
JOHNNY HOBO & THE FREIGHT TRAINS / CAPTAIN CHAOS
Live @ Bandit HQ cd-r
$5-$8 ppd. sliding scale
OUT OF PRINT
This cd is no longer available-sorry
A live recording with amazing sound quality from the show that led to our eviction the very next day. Captain Chaos is the solo project of chris from Ghost Mice. On this recording he does 5 ghost mice covers and 2 originals. Upbeat folk songs with personal & intimate lyrics. Full of sweet honesty.
Johnny Hobo dishes out his trademark raw & harsh acoustic punk style on 4 live tracks and 1 bonus (previously unreleased) studio track. Chuck full of bitter honesty.
Comes with a 5 page mini zine/booklet. Hand packaged, stenciled and made with love from old cereal boxes.
MICHAEL JORDAN TOUCHDOWN PASS:
cash, money, etc. cd
$6-$8 ppd. sliding scale
Biting sarcasm with a poetic cry for escape is combined with catchy as fuck poppy songs to bring you cash, money, etc. An album that will help you drop out or at least realize how stupid everything around you really is. Imagine if the weakerthans, built to spill and bright eyes all dropped out of high-school, went to a southern Vermont wingnut party and woke up with a hangover and an 11 track recording the next day and you’d have a good idea of what to expect from MJTDP. this cd was co-released with our friends at:
www.plan-itx.com
GHOST MICE :
live @ the nest cd-r
$5-$8 ppd. sliding scale
10 tracks by ghost mice plus some extra bonus stuff all recorded live in Bridgeport CT. at a Bandit potluck show in an old factory in early 2006. Ghost Mice offer fun and heart felt traditional folk (punk) songs. Vocals, guitar, violin, ukulele and a bunch of foot stomping kids singing along. Hand colored stars on each cover-no two alike.
BOOTLEG :
Anonymous Bootleg cd-r
out of print
this cd is no longer available-sorry
This cd wound up in the hands of a Bandit along with a nice letter & description. We liked the music and letter a lot and decided to share it. Moving, flowing and at times haunting instrumentals from this full electric band. “Goes well with thunderstorms, painting and cave hunting.” Beautifully hand packaged just for you! Once these are gone we will not be making any more!
MC HOMELESS :
Trapped Under an Ohio Sky – cd
$6-$8 ppd. sliding scale
The first time we heard MC Homeless perform it was to a small crowd in a storage garage that he backed a car into and played his beats through a sound system in its trunk. It was a good time and since then Homeless has only gotten better. We are very excited to offer his cd as our first hip hop release. Homeless dishes out 13 tracks of social, political and personal rhymes backed by tripped out hip hop with a trace of crunk beats. Forget that shit on the radio- here you’ll get a talented and boldly unique underground hip hop album from an up and coming DIY anarchist emcee. What more can you ask for? With great color cover art and guests appearances by emcees and producers such as Ceschi, Enigmick, Optiks, DJ Shortrock, Mic Ra and more.
MUTINY AMONGST FRIENDS :
Broken home singalongs CD-R
$5-$8ppd. sliding scale
One day we were all hanging out at the Bandit Basement, all bored and silly, when a rowdy gang of Valley youths tumbled down the basement stairs, along with several empty beer cans, a banjo and a kazoo. They then instantly recorded this album. Mutiny is a intoxicating blend of folk, old-fashioned rock, party anthems and new-wave, kinda like if the Talking Heads listened to Erik Petersen and drank lots of Miller High Life. Please support their rock addiction!!!!
THE FIGHTING POLYGON TEAM :
We are all monkeys CD-R
$5-$8 ppd. sliding scale
OUT OF PRINT
This cd is no longer available-sorry
1 boy on guitar & vocals + 1 girl on drums make up the F’ing PG Team. They hung out in an old Bandit basement and recorded songs about getting murdered & raped on myspace, space aliens and punk zombie kids that are afraid to dance. Thay play fast, fun, punk-rock(abilly) music. If you are a fan of early dead milkmen you should check them out. In total we recorded 11 songs in 2 sessions and are now offering them to you. We won’t lie, the band makes their own copies of these in full color (ours are B & W despite the image above) and they might even sell them to ya for cheaper. So hit them up directly if you don’t wanna support our shady Bandit activities.
BLACK HEART REBELLION (aka Never Say Surrender) :
I’ll write to you in better days cd-r
$5-$8ppd. sliding scale
We got a letter and a demo from BHR a long time ago and stayed in touch often. Eventually (founder) Ben Flippo sent more tracks & said we could put out his songs if we wanted. So we got all kinds of excited & couldn’t say no. We touched up the sound a bit and now offer it for you to enjoy. In a time when punk kids playing acoustic instruments seems to be a rather common occurrence BHR stands out amongst the norm. Hailing from Nashville TN. BHR serves up a wonderful album of anarchist folk punk. Lyrically you get political & social songs, tender songs dealing with longing & struggle and some story telling as well. Musically, BHR is often more folk than punk and is rather refreshing. After listening to the album we were left wondering if BHR ever shared a room with Bob Dylan in a punk house that was haunted by the ghost of Woody Guthrie. This is one of the best DIY folk punk albums we heard in a while! Since this release BHR has changed their name to Never Say Surrender.
JUSTIN CLIFFORD RHODY / A. RESTREPO:
split 7″
$4-$6 ppd. sliding scale
NO GRINGOS !
RELEASES
PRETEND YOU’RE HAPPY:
S/T cd
$8-$10 ppd. sliding scale
With 13 people participating on this recording Pretend You’re Happy is a DIY orchestra of sorts-offering a bold and unique sound. When listening to this album the term “alternative” (in its rawest and truest form)comes to mind, meaning this album is a true alternative to what is out there today.
Influences range from folk & sludge-metal to jazz & hardcore to rock & classical and beyond. The music itself maintains a steady stream of making sense with itself, while shifting between thickly layered to sparse, melodic to cacauphonic while combining strong & lullaby-esque vocals and harmonies. At times this album is a subtle soundtrack to this world and at others it is a crazy shattering of sounds blasting you into the next world-DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND, get your own copy now!______________________________________________________________________________________
DISTRO ITEMS
distro items are only available from the DIY Bandits HQ address (not Bandits Midwest)
RECENT ADDITIONS:
Endless Mike & the Beagle Club-we are still at war-cd $10-$11
Endless Mike & the Beagle Club-the husky tenor-cd $10-$11
Bread and Roses-deep river day-cd $10-$11
Wingnut Dishwasher’s union/James K Polk- split 7″ $4-$5
Meisce-shipwrecked in a bottle-cd $10-$11
Erik Peterson/Robert Blake-split 12″ $10-$11
Witch Hunt-this is only the begining-cd $10-$11
Guignol/Nanuchka-split cd-$6-$7
Ghost Mice / Brook Pridemoore – split 7″ $5-$6
The Jammy Dodgers -skive off cd $3-$4
A Soldiers Story:writings by a revolutionary new afrikan anarchist-book $12-$13
A Problem of Memory:stories to end the racial nightmare-book $11-$12
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BOOKS
A crime called freedom-writings of Os Cangaceiros $7-$8
A problem of memory: stories to end the racial nightmare $11-$12
A soldier’s story: writings by a revolutionary new afrikan anarchist $12-$13
All power to the people $12-$14
Anarchist Farm $10-$11
At daggers drawn (the secret is to really begin) $6.50-$7.50
Criminal-writings of isabelle eberhardt (mini book) $4-$5
Days of war nights of love $8-$9
Down and out in the ivy league $10
Evasion $6-$7
Expect Resistance (a field manual) $8-$9
The father, the son, the walkperson $10
Fire and lightning $5-$6
the Flow Chronicles $8-$9
The last days of christ the vampire $10
My journey with Aristotle to the anarchist utopia $7-$8
The Nihilist Princess $11-$12
off the map $3-$4
Pyrexia $10
Recipes for disaster $11-$12
Resurrection 2027 $7-$8
Rusty string quartet $10
Stolen sharpie revolution $4-$5
Suffled how it gush:a north american anarchist in the Balkans $12
Swift winds $9.50-$10
This’ll kill ya $6-$7
Zines
Autonomous self organization & anarchist intervention $3-$4
Free to choose-a woman’s guide to reproductive freedom $3-$4
Hot Pantz $3-$4
Jane-documents from chicagos clandestine abortion service 1968-73 $4-$5
Policing on the global scale $3-$4
Reclaiming our ancient wisdom-herbal abortion procedure/practice $6-$7
Rolling Thunder 1 (magazine) $4-$5
Videos/DVDs
CrimethInc.GuerillaFilmSeries DVD(pickaxe/braking the spell/miami model +5 short films) $10-$12
Breaking Free VHS (animal rights/alf) $8-$9
A cowboy hat and a cane VHS (tales of a dumpster diving dog) $5-$6
CD’S
77-revolution rock $7-$8
Andrew Jackson Jihad- only god can judge me $5-$6
Antsy Pants-s/t $5-$6
Paul Baribeau-s/t $5-$6
Best Friends Forever-s/t $5-$6
Blacken the skies-s/t $8-$9
Bloarzeyd-delirious insane ventilator of $9-$10
The Cankickers-mountain dudes $8-$9
Ceschi-they hate francisco false $8-$9
Ceschi-the one man band $8-$9
Darren Deicide-rockin til the apocalypse $7-$8
Darren Deicide-temptation and the taboo part 1 $9-$10
Dead Friends- s/t $5-$6
Defiance Ohio-share what ya got $5-$6
Defiance Ohio/Ghost Mice-split $5-$6 OUT OF STOCK
Delay-don’t laugh $5-$6
Delay- plain language $5-$6
The Devil is electric-discography $5-$6
The Ear the Eye & the Arm-mechanistas $5-$6
Endless Mike & the Beagle Club-we are still at war- $10-$11
Endless Mike & the Beagle Club-the husky tenor- $10-$11
Fiften-buzz (fnb benefit) $5-$6
Ghost Mice/Saw Wheel-split $5-$6
Ghost Mice-dept of the dead $5-$6
Ghost Mice/Pretty Hot $5-$6
Ghost Mice-Europe-$5-$6
Ghost Mice/Andrew Jackson Jihad-split $5-$6
Japanther-wolfenswan $5-$6
Mark Leonard-fountain of youth cd-r $4-$5
Matty Pop Chart-good old water $5-$6
Mischief Brew-smash the windows $10-$11
Mischief Brew-songs from under the sink $10-$11
Mischief Brew/Joe Jack Talcum-split $10-$11
Mutiny-co-op brewery $10-$11
Mutiny-rum rebellion $10-$11
One Reason-all rivers run south, all roads lead home $5-$6
the Orphans-raise the youth $9-$10
Paulie Think-I shot paulie think $8-$9
Plan-It-X-if it ain’t cheap it ain’t punk comp vol.2 $3-$4
Pretty Hot/Ghost Mice-split $5-$6
Rosa-I Mississippi you $5-$6
Russ Substance & James Black- as the crow flies $5-$6
Sandman-the long walk home $6-$7
Second Class Citizen-conspiracy of truth $5-$6
Spoonboy-I love you this is a robbery $5-$6 out of stock
Stressface-oh…you’re welcome $5-$6
Thanks for the floor-comp $9-$10
This Bike is a Pipebomb-front seat solidarity $5-$6
This Bike is a Pipebomb-Dance party with $5-$6 out of stock
This Bike is a Pipebomb-3 way tie for a fifth $5-$6
Toca- s/t $8-$9
Your Heart Breaks-new ocean waves $5-$6
12 INCH RECORDS
The Devil is Electric-I never trusted a revolutionarie who was afraid to dance $8-$9
Erik Peterson / Robert Blake-split $10-$11
Chris Clavin-the roads don’t lead home…$8-$9
7 INCH RECORDS
Ghost Mice / Taco Cat- split $4-$6
Ghost Mice /Brook Pridemoore-split $5-$6
Saw Wheel/The Milk crate Rustlers-split $4-$6
Wingnut Dishwaser’s Union/James K Polk -split $4-$6 out of stock
SHIRTS all $8-$10
“China Town Hip-Hop” w/ light bulb on front, “Paulie Think” on back-S, M, L, XL (unisex or girly T’s)
“Fight Racism” b&w handshake-XL only
“International Terrorist” G W Bush-XL only
“Unite” star-XL only
*check back for new releases and calls to violent revolt.
