In his glowing endorsement of Peter Soto's PURE magazine, a child pornography zine which got Sotos convicted of possessing and distributing CP, Albini praises PURE for it's punk rock ethos and speaks warmly of Sotos. Albini also goes on to express his own pleasure at the content of the magazine:
The cover of PURE 2 is a guy holding open a toddler’s puny hole so his spuzz can dribble out. The girl is past crying. She is destroyed. Like I said, I like that sort of thing
Source: https://i.imgur.com/Gm7otzo.jpg
From the European Big Black tour diary, Albini recounts his enjoyment of the child pornography magazines he found in a sex shop in Hamburg:
Jaded as I am, I can't help but flip seeing a girl and guy of twelve or thirteen, tops, ramming Martel bottles up each other's asses. These are not the Dutch equivalent of abused trailer-park kids, either. They look to be in excellent health and seem to be honestly enjoying this. Makes all the conventional arguments against this kind of thing seem really silly. They're kids. Kids like to play with their own and other people's privates. They're just being photographed at it. Now, people who get a voyeuristic charge out of watching them, like me, I guess, well, we've got some grip-on-reality problems. There's maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it's definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it's as weird as this, it's pretty hard to take.
Source: https://i.imgur.com/9obDb08.jpg
Further elaboration on Albini's friendship with Sotos and his own child pornography conviction:
Sotos defending his distribution of child pornography in court, stating "child abuse is a sublime pleasure: https://i.imgur.com/UCn5NFB.png
Albini praising Sotos' "art" and his friendship with the convicted child pornographer: https://i.imgur.com/WLQb5ke.png
Albini also helped Sotos produce Buyers Market, a unauthorized collection of court testimonies and police interviews from child rape victims.
TL;DR - Steve Albini is a pedophile who has twice admitted to owning and enjoying child pornography. He is also close friends with Peter Sotos of White House, a convicted child pornographer who published child porn zines in the 80s and makes "art" about child rape.
There’s maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it’s definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it’s as weird as this, it’s pretty hard to take.
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Wall is too organized and resembles a legal ceremony. Rabid animals are put down on sight
This goes way beyond just pedophilia, he mask off said the brutal cruelty is the point.
oof ouch on this guy, normally I'm all about rehabilitating peodphiles but the fuck are you supposed to do with someone like this.
Well there's this really good album called The Wall, and my idea is related to that.
Absolutely sick and evil. I expected the quotes to be awful but, shit.
Reading through his wiki page without any of this context, he sure comes off as a serious chauvinist sexist asshole in how he talks about music and the industry.
He seems to have come up during the twilight of the 'classic rock' dudes era, so I'm sure he was chuddy with all those 'tastes just like a young girl should' shitheads. I'd guess his contrarian 'punk' :galaxy-brain: :brainworms: also made him into a post-boomer edgelord pioneer.
Just total :libertarian-alert: all over the place.
Then these quotes just lay it all out so clearly and plainly.
The fact that this asshole hasn't been shunned out of the music industry decades ago really shows how totally fucked up things are over there.
:gui-better: :marx-guns-blazing:
Not gonna lie reading this I took some serious psychic damage. Death to this man, that is all.
Reminder that Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is convicted of sexual battery and has openly spoken of having sex with 14 year olds. This was all known in the 90s, but they are still darlings of libs of a certain age.
Not only is their music terrible, they are horrid people.
For the love of God, please put this behind every possible spoiler and content warning. It is revolting to read.
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Gives me similar vibes to Justin Roiland and the "edgy" stuff he made in animation with child murder and SA
Mainly because it seems unbelievable to me that a well known person could openly say they like child pornography and nothing bad happens to them, I looked into it a bit more and it seems like he wrote a lot of stuff just like this to be shocking. And now says he regrets a lot of that stuff. But he also was associating himself with Sotos and apparently knew perfectly well what Sotos was because it was public record at that point, so I'm leaning towards wall.
There is edgy, and then there is... that abomination of a quote.
It speaks to a profound lack of empathy. To him, the suffering of the most vulnerable is valid entertainment. He, like Sotos, feels entitled to this """entertainment""" It speaks a lot to his lack of boundaries and respect for other people.
He reminds me of that musician that abused a baby imo.
Yeah I don't want to say it's okay if he was just joking, because it's not at all okay. But he produced a lot of records I love and that goes down a little easier if he's just a piece of shit but not a pedophile himself. But it looks pretty bad to me because of his relationship and work with Sotos.
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