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Perhaps you’re interested in downloading two songs from Propagandhi’s forthcoming opus Supporting Caste? Perhaps you also feel that activist organizations who are trying to make this planet less of a shit-hole are worth supporting? If you answered yes to both those questions, then you’re in luck!

Why? Because by making a small donation to one of three of said organizations, you can download “Supporting Caste” and “Humane(e) Meat” — two stellar tracks off of said forthcoming opus — in high-quality MP3 format right now.

But wait, there’s more … as of today you can also place a pre-order for the new album, and receive an amazing 18″ x 24″ colour poster, plus a link to download the entire album on the release date. This offer only stands until March 10th, so take your fingers out of your nostrils, place them on your keyboard and mouse respectively, and get to it!

Yee-haw, eat yer grandpa! Propagandhi have completed their 5th studio album, and will unleash it onto this fragile, precious world on the 10th of March, year of our Lord 2009.

Supporting Caste holds 12 new laments, reveries and extrapolations from 4 visibly-aging … aw fuck it, just read the press release here.

I will, however, say the following about Supporting Caste:

• it features amazing cover art by the great Kent Monkman;
• it is being released thricely: digital download (via this here website, and all the other usual suspects), CD (digipack), and double LP (gatefold);
• we are co-releasing the album with our buds at Smallman Records (and by “co-release” we of course mean “they do everything”);
• it presents a bold, delicious proposal to end the long-standing vegetarian/meat-eater conflict.

Stay tuned for info on when and how a preview MP3 will be made available.

Oh, and the boys will be on tour in Australia, the US, the UK and Europe for much of February, March and April.

As you can see, we were not joking when we said we were not releasing any more music. We are, in fact, not. Just to reiterate — G7 has entered an indefinite stage of hibernation during which we will release no new music, but simply maintain our existing back-catalogue in high-quality, DRM-free, downloadable form.

CDs which we currently have in stock continue to be available for sale in our online store until that stock runs out. We will not be manufacturing any more CDs in the future.

Now that that clarification is out of the way, I may as well update the curious on the latest with G7-affiliated peoples …
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Greetings earthlings. Today marks the release of G7’s 57th and final release of audio excrement out into this troubled sphere. It’s called This Time It’s Personal and it was crafted by one Chris Pastor, aka Jamaica Plain.

At first we didn’t know why his music was so bizarre and eccentric. He was, after all, from Boston, home of such clearly non-eccentric luminaries as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. But then we found he was now living in Sweden and it all made sense. Those people are freaks (see examples.)

Speaking of old Zinn-meister, here’s what he had to say about This Time It’s Personal:

We just listened to your wonderful new CD [sic] — it is as you want it to be — up-front and very powerful, with the words coming at you, entering into your consciousness. It is a really important thing you’ve done. Each one of the pieces is great.

The man certainly has a way with words, doesn’t he? And who are you to argue with him — he wrote the fucking People’s History of the United States!

Download This Time It’s Personal today – and also check out the recently-posted video for I Won’t Run (which, if viewed cynically, could be interpreted as endorsing suicide bombings. But we’re not cynics! And we don’t endorse suicide bombings. Nor do we endorse F16 aerial bombings. Unless you’re blowing up an F16 with a suicide bomb, that’s OK.)

You can also find the album on iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and other inter-web locations.

It’s been awhile since you’ve heard any actual news from us related to this whole record label business, and for this we apologize. We’ve all been very busy doing anything and everything that has nothing to do with this record label.

But that’s all about to change.

Instead of pretending that we’re actually still interested in the practice of accepting submissions and hunting for, then filtering and sorting, then negotiating and paying for, then promoting and distributing and accounting for music … instead of pretending that we like and are happy doing all THAT … we are doing the opposite. And opposite, is opposite.

No more. I’m going on 58, Chris is pushing 65, and Brent … well Brent’s only 34, but he spends half of his time in the drunk tank and the other half in the dunk tank, so he’s a write off.

Point is … well, let me illustrate. Go to the kitchen, open the drawer … no, not that one, it’s all full of old twist ties and plastic bags … no, one to the left … no no, the OTHER left … OK, good, that one … now get a fork. No, that’s a foon. THERE we go – now THAT’S a fork! OK now, what was I saying? Oh right – now stick that fork in us. Because WE’RE DONE.

All G7 releases will remain available in their current high-quality digital form into the foreseeable future. Watch for Chris’ forthcoming retrospective on the history of G7 from AK Press next year?

It’s been a slice dickwads.