G7 Welcoming Committee Records. Uncooperative since 1997.

A few items of note for ya’ll today. First off, even though we offer our very own download store featuring the highest-quality MP3s you can get, some folks still prefer to shop at the mall. The mall in this case being iTunes. Good news today if you’re one of those people – our entire digitally-available catalogue is now available on iTunes in the DRM-free “iTunes Plus” format, at 256 kbps (as opposed to the former DRM-laden 128 kbps format).

I would like to reiterate, though, that the MP3s from our own store have always been DRM-free, and are of better quality. Get? Got it? No? Good.

Secondly – a new book penned by Bob Mersereau titled The Top 100 Canadian Albums is out this week, and what G7 album comes in at number 75? Propagandhi’s Potemkin City Limits? warsawpack’s GDP? Nope, but great guesses. Number 75 on this final and authoritative list is The Weakerthans’ Left and Leaving. Interesting!

On a related note – as of November 6th, G7 will no longer be offering for sale any Weakerthans albums currently in our catalogue (Fallow, Left & Leaving, or Watermark) in either physical or digital form, through any venue of sale. They will, however, be reborn instantly, crawling out of the cave and into the light, reissued in Canada on Epitaph.