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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 4]

Posted on January 8, 2026 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] EPS OF THE YEAR There is always a joy in EPs beyond their modest length of playback. As the late 70s and the calcification of radio in the US brought the EPs to this shore as … Continue reading →

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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 3]

Posted on January 7, 2026 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] SINGLES OF THE YEAR There were a lot of singles this year. You’ve got to love them. I know I do! Even if they are mostly immaterial now. The joy of a single is that they … Continue reading →

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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 2]

Posted on January 6, 2026 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] 2025 BUYING STATS Total titles purchased: 154 [↓18% 2024]Total expenditures: $966.65 [↓21% 2024]Average cost: $6.30/title [↑1% 2024] Expenditures were down this year by over 20%. Good, but not great. I always like to shave the costs … Continue reading →

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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 1]

Posted on January 5, 2026 by postpunkmonk

The year 2025 has been a weird one. We knew going into it that the US had picked a President who promised to be a “dictator from day one” and then had the temerity to NOT lie for possibly the … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas Mr. Linton: Fluid Japan And Jan Linton Team Once More For Cover Of “Forbidden Colours”

Posted on December 30, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Jan Linton + Fluid Japan: Forbidden Colours – HK/US – DL [2025] Last winter we enjoyed the crystalline beauty of Fluid Japan’s cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” where Fluid Japan, working with a piano recording by Reiko … Continue reading →

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 3]

Posted on December 29, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Bob Gaulke: When Are These Not Difficult Times? – US – CD-R [2025] Bob Gaulke released a third disc concurrently with “(S)words” and “(detail)” last summer on June 6th. Like “(S)words,” it featured Hans [The Dutch] … Continue reading →

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 2]

Posted on December 23, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Bob Gaulke: (S)words – US – CD-R [2025] “Our Tiny Struggle” began with the emphatic piano rhythm courtesy of Mr. Barry Andrews boring a hole in our brain that wouldn’t let go as Gil Olivera on … Continue reading →

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