STOP POSTING YOUR ADS ON OUR 'SPACE! WE'RE JUST GOING TO DELETE THEM!
This band started in the beginning of '04, went on 2 tours (West and East) that Summer, switched bass players between tours, went on a West coast tour the next Winter with a different drummer and a s/t 7", broke up May '05 and recorded for a split 7" and split 12" the next day, got back together for a few shows in late summer with a new drummer, then got back together for good on December 31st '05 with a new bass player. We recorded our full length album in November 2006. It was the only time we didn't record with Ben Woyak (it was with Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan in Fort Worth and Denton, Texas). Summer '07, we did a split with Dear Landlord, and did a short East coast tour with them. In September '07, we got the previous bass player back in the band. The full length album was finally released in November 2007. We toured Japan for two weeks in March 2008 with Blotto, thanks to Yoichi of Snuffy Smiles and got to meet some of the nicest people in the world. We only played a couple more shows that year, including the Fest in Gainesville and Insubordination Fest in Baltimore. On February 26, 2009, we played our final show in Milwaukee. It's all over now. Got it?
There were 8 Chinese Telephones releases, in this order:
1-a self-titled 7" on Dingus records that is out of print
2-a split 7" with Dan Padilla on Fast Crowd Records
3-a split 12" with the Potential Johns sort of came out on Pizza Pizza Records. Only 100 copies w/ "special" tour edition covers that we photocopied at Kinko's and glued onto Small Brown Bike LP jackets. This has now been re-pressed with full-color covers and label art by Cheeky Git Records
4-a split 7" with Anti-Justice from Japan on Snuffy Smiles records
5-a split 7" with Dear Landlord on It's Alive/ Recess Records.
6-Our LP/ CD is out on It's Alive records. You can order it from many places, including itsaliverecords.com, noidearecords.com, and more.
7-We released a 7" for the Art of the Underground Single series, which included "Game of Pricks" (Guided by Voices cover) and "I Don't Wanna Get Involved" (the Queers cover) which was limited to 350.
8-Our final release is Chinese Telephones "Democracy," on Sandwich Man Records (Justin's "label"), which compiles all of our vinyl-only releases on one cd. available through us, No Idea, Dirtnap/ Green Noise, Razorcake, Interpunk, more.
ORDER SHIT FROM US! (INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: PLEASE WRITE TO SEE HOW MUCH POSTAGE IS BEFORE SENDING MONEY!!! paypal charges an initial $0.30, which i get charged again when you send the extra postage later.)
NEW!
CD $10ppd
s/t cd/lp $10
CD
LP
here are some shirts you can order from us for $10 ppd. write first to see what sizes/colors are available.
Japanese tour shirt--YL,S,M,L
wisconsin shirt (XL or 2XL only: try itsaliverecords.com for more)
"wolves" (or foxes) tshirt--S, L, XL
kanji tshirt--S, L, XL
here's a video of us playing "Crying in the Chapel" at Subterranean in Chicago with Jeff Burke on bass.
here are a couple videos of us in Yokohama in March 2008.
here's a video of us at the Fest 6 in Gaineville on 10/26/07 with our friend Jeff Burke filling in on bass.
i want a shirt but the damn paypal button just links to a blank page, something about myspace is fucking it all up. I want the wolves and foxes one. Let me know if there is a way to get it to work.
Looks like your Chinese Telephones have been bugged by the LAW! Also, I don't know if you if you guys are aware of this, but you own 20% of Morgan Stanley.
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Test Pressing Dan Padilla/Chinese Telephones Split 7” This is 1 of 3 total test pressings of the Dan Padilla/Chinese Telephones split 7" that was our first release on Fast Crowd Records in 2005. That's right, the one that started it all. It has been out of print for a good time now. We pressed a total of 1000. The record comes with the full original zine that came with the first 250 out of the 1000. It also comes with one of the screen printed covers we did for the last 100 pressed. Fast Crowd Records is selling this to be able to fund putting out more records. We hope that someone will enjoy this as much as we have. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270364899088&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1123
This is our split release with Dirt Cult Records. It's the 4way split featuring Dude Jams/Shang-A-Lang/Gordon Gano's Army/Dan Padilla. We pressed a total of 500 and I believe they are all out of print. Atleast we don't have anymore. I don't think we are going to repress anymore of these. We are trying to raise some fundage to put out some more records so we will be doing 1 or 2 of these a week. This was my personal copy. Hope someone will enjoy it. P.S. if you haven't got the new Gordon Gano's Army 7" you don't know what you're missing. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=270364903394
Well that's weird and annoying. Try copying and pasting it into the location bar I guess. If not, it's still the first post on the main page, http://billraid. blogspot. com/ Wonder if this is going to be called spam too.
Hello sirs, great show last night, totally worth the drive in the fog, wind and rain. I posted a lot of pictures and such over here, including two short videos.
I'm glad I saw you guys already or I'd feel worse about not having enough money to drive to Milwaukee for the last show. I'll be buying most everything I can get my party sub lacking hands on though. Thanks for playing.
Hey do you have a mailing address I can send you some $$ for some stuff? I couldn't see one on yer page...I want a LorXL foxes/wolves shirt & a new cd Fanx, Fluff
