one of my favorite highschool memories is when my first friend got their drivers liscence so all of us piled in his car and drove down to Newport, RI for a weekend over the summer. we went to a record store that had a bargain bin of 99 cent CDs and picked out all the weird and interesting looking ones, probably spending 100 dollars between us. one of the records we picked up was No Gods No Masters by Choking Victim. the guy at the counter was both awestruck that they had that album and he didn’t know about it, and confused that it had ended up in the bargain bin— he let us have it for 99 cents anyways.
my buddy’s car broke down on the way back to where we were staying in a horrible rainstorm so we sat there on the side of the road listening to all kinds of weird albums we’d found in the bargain bin. Death From Above 1973, Gang Gang Dance, Kiss Kiss— a personal favorite was a record of horrible rap songs written by a handful of former tank commanders from the Iraq War called Straight Off Da Tank. but without a doubt the best albul we found that day, that i still play to this fay and have a patch of the album artwork on the way for my battle jacket, was No Gods No Masters