Drastic Plastic began and still exists as a record store in Omaha, Nebraska, which now has begun to press vinyl in order to re-solidify the ever-expanding canon of late-20th/early-21st-century popular music and adapt to what has clearly become the inconstant world of independent music retail. A recent Associated Press article states: “In 2008, more vinyl albums were purchased (1.88 million) than any other year since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. More than two of every three vinyl albums were purchased at an independent music store during the year.” Drastic opened in 1982 and has been selling punk/alternative/indie records to Omahans since, and has been making and selling t-shirts internationally through its sister company, Impact Merchandising, for 15 years. Because of our collective experience and continued focus on what’s essential art it seems a natural…indeed a necessary…progression to publish essential, out-of-print masterpieces on vinyl for the people who want and need them. Drastic Plastic is helmed by Neil Azevedo (General Manger, A&R) and Mike Howard (CEO, Impact Merchandising).
Music
Some of our favorites:
The Cramps, Nurse With Wound, Black Flag, New York Dolls, MC5, The Gun Club, MC5, My Bloody Valentine, T-Rex, Television, Throbbing Gristle, Sonic Youth, Whitehouse, The Birthday Party, Minor Threat, The Damned, The Cure, The Meatmen, Joy Division, The Wake, The Make-Up, Section 25, D.R.I., Stooges, Minny Pops, Seam, Motörhead, The Clash, Bauhaus, Coil, Agent Orange, HTRK, Mono, Crispy Ambulance, Roxy Music, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Blood On The Wall, Ramones, Velvet Underground, U.K. Subs, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Misfits, The Specials, Sisters Of Mercy, MDC, B-52's, Angry Samoans, Clock DVA, Bad Brains, Blondie, The Undertones, and a whole bunch more weird noise, no wave, and well... you pretty much get the picture.
..We also make records...http://www.drasticplasticrecords.com/
Fall 2009 List:
The Meatmen, War of the Superbikes
Agent Orange, Living in Darkness
Crispy Ambulance, The Plateau Phase
Section 25, Always Now
The Exploited, Punks Not Dead
The Exploited, Troops of Tomorrow
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Smashed Hits
The Wake, Harmony
The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
Motörhead, Motörhead
Coming 2010:
The Birthday Party, Gun Club, The Clash and more tba soon...
Now Available:
The Briggs, Back To Higher Ground
The Toasters, 25th Anniversary (Best Of...)
"Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas, dried up fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgement, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation" - Greil Marcus
"Rock music is mostly about moving big black boxes from one side of town to the other in the back of your car." - Pere Ubu
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thomson
Who I'd like to meet: Everyone.
Come and visit us to check out our huge selection of vinyl, cd's, t-shirts, dvd's, books, collectible toys, and clothing.
DRASTIC PLASTIC RECORDS's Friend Space (Randomized)
You can now purchase your copy of Cherry Flavored Quick Fix (Screen Printed limited edition) EP in addition to the download purchase available at bandcamp.
This package includes a physical copy of the limited edition EP signed by the band. All EP's have been screenprinted individually with original logo/design by Layla Reyna. "Also includes immediate download of all tracks on the EP, in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire, along with a sticker and poster."
We just spent the weekend in Chicago at the Mattress Factory Studio at Invisible Records recording and mastering our debut EP titled, "Cherry Flavored Quick Fix". the 4 song Ep is produced by Martin Atkins and Engineered by Steve Moore.
Official release date this month to be announced. Visit the myspace page to listen to, "It's All Over" to get your quick fix of whats to come.
Stay tuned, see you at the 2009 goth ball @ the slowdown oct 30th. Sean
Friday, July 24th The Hideout Lounge 322 S. 72nd Street $7 21 & up 9pm Sioux City Pete and the Beggars, The Crystelles featuring Gitane DeMone of Christian Death
