That Awful Sound

122 - Like We Just Got Married

New Merch! Use coupon code patreon20 during checkout at www.thatawfulsound.com / Tear That Ass Up / Vampire Labor Law / Story of the Year So Far / Auntomei / Our Specific Aesthetics / Youtube Comments / Music We Like: Cloakroom's "Timewell," Galaxie 500, and Protomartyr's "Relatives in Decent"

Important Merch Announcement and Patreon Rewards Update!

[If you’re at the $5-7 level, we’ve probably already messaged you directly, and you can ignore most of this post. If you’ve sent us your size and address, your shirt is coming.]

Merch is ready!

We have brand new shirts, stickers, buttons, and posters available in the webstore and as Patreon Rewards.

www.thatawfulsound.com/merch 

Patrons at any level will get 20% off their entire order in the webstore with the promo code PATREON20

New Patreon Rewards

New Patreon tiers have been added! You will be grandfathered into these new tiers based on your current pledge. You can also manually opt into one of these new tiers if you wish to do so. 

See the Posters section below for more info.

T-Shirts

We are very happy to announce this chill new shirt designed by our own Regular Dawg Maatman. The front breast features the podcast’s mantra in the style of our Cali brethren from Nebraska.

The back features a new take on the podcast artwork, surrounded by a trusty ball chain necklace. 

These are in very limited quantity, and a lot have already been claimed. You’re getting the first shot at the remaining few, so we recommend acting soon. 

Unfortunately, all medium shirts are currently claimed. We’ll update here if that changes, but we also intend to make more once this batch sells out.

Posters

These 11x17” gig posters are based on the ball chain Lars logo and advertise That Awful Sound appearing at a special location with one of the many bands we’ve covered on the show. Try to catch us at the World Trade Center with Limp Bizkit! or at the Malibu Dreem House with Aqua!

Custom posters are available as a reward for the $3 and $8 Patreon tiers. They are also available in the webstore in both custom and random options.

If you donate at the $3-4 level, you’re automatically entitled to a custom poster featuring your choice of supporting act, as well as stickers and buttons. 

If you donate at the $8+ level, you’re entitled to a shirt, a custom poster, stickers, and buttons. 

For subscribers in either of these categories, let us know what band you want on your poster.

If we don’t hear from you within a week or so, and we already have your address, you’re getting a random poster, which is still pretty cool because these things are tight.

Stickers

We have 4” stickers! 

Buttons

We have 1” buttons!

Important:

if you’re at a level where you get free stuff, you have to send us your mailing address so we can get it to you.

If you’re getting free stuff, and you want to buy additional stuff, DO NOT use the webstore, or you will likely have to pay additional shipping.

Instead, PayPal us directly @ PayPal.me/thatawfulsound and specify the items you’re buying in a note during checkout.

If you’re not sure about the price after your 20% discount, message us for help.

Thanks for listening and for all your support!

-Alex and Emma

121 - A Study in Prosthesis

Blade Runner 2049 is good; Nothin But Trouble is great; An analysis of the Facebook wow react; RHCP on hardcore show lineups; The forgotten Fabio incident and the societal benefits of sacrificing birds; RIP Dave Navarro and Richard Dunn; More completely deranged youtube comments including a flawless russian accent in a read by the Regular Dawg

120 - Lowly Dog

Important instructions on how to reserve a shirt! You have to let me know if you want one, and what size you wear.

Make sure you're getting notifications for these Patreon posts, because I'm going to send you folks instructions on how to order once they're ready. 

119 - Strange Cracker

Tons of stuff from the Ironic episode. Enjoy!

118 - Mid Society

Michael has a true story about Mexico, Radiohead is What I Call Music, Rockabye is a bad song, Michael is Tal Bachman, Giantess fetishists must be brought out of the shadows, Tal Bachman is Ian Starglow, Hellenists are being persecuted, and lots of other dumb youtube comments

115 - Punx for Podcasts

Extra material from the Orgy episode as well as the Primer 55 Episode: Lots of Cat Chat, including Geezer’s sad backstory; the hidden formula that makes Family Guy and Mad TV so freakin’ funny; Good songs we make up; Important conversations about how fucking hot it is in the IE; Kevan shares his heritage; name tags are the enemy of the working person; Gold Cobra is Not Good

116 - Human Ass Face

Thanks for being patient! Here's stuff from both last week's episode and this week's: more talk about sentient AI arcade games from the Dreams in Digital video, some interesting political discussion about activist hardcore bands, lots of deleted comments from Mindless Self Indulgence, and Emma performs another weird shoe-horned parody about an establishment democrat and set to the tune of an unfortunately named MSI song.

114 - American Shit

This week we got some deleted banter-y stuff, some stuff I probably should've included in the main episode (including the eponymous line), and 15 minutes of deleted youtube/song meanings comments. 

113 - Nu Gen

We Can't Stop Singing Nookie / Scarification / Body Hair / Playboy Mansion Record Release for Hot Dog / Freddy D’s Creepy Game / Freddy D Insults Mini Me / A Commentator Sees a Truly Professional Limp Bizkit Show / I Review Facebook Group Prospects

112 - Bonus - PopKoЯn Lung

Your bonus episode: Guest Andrew shares a story about Synyster Gates supportive, nirvana-hating mother, his professional “guitar comedian” dad, and the time he convinced two young women he was in the band. 

Also: We Suggest Hilarious new Jeff Dunham Puppets, Nick Knows Limp Bizkit Royalty, Avenged Sevenfold is not Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold is not a Metal Band, Avenged Sevenfold is not the 47th Greatest Metal Band, Disturbed is a Preacher Man, and Ten Minutes of Deleted Youtube/Songmeanings Comments

111 - Bonus - DDTs

Running Group Applicants By The Listener / You Cant Fuck With Comedy / sCATological Humor / You Don't Need Drugs To Get High / Emma Gets Crass / Matt Gets Points

110 - Bonus - Wipe Noise

Emma is an animal / Robin Thicke annotates Genius / Re-branding racism / Leigh gives birth as her episode drops / Wipe noise

109 - Bonus - Air Bowler & Bucket

Michael boards his hats in Tennessee, Emma takes Spanish in a made-up sounding, super racist town, Freddy Kruger puts you in him, Michael tries to stump me with a later-era Simpsons reference, We like music, We don't like Dance Moms, Søren from Aqua has a spoken-word side project, Homegrown is MxPx is Good Charlotte, and my unpopular opinion about Okja

It's Not Even Television

Mike's Screamo Career / James McAvoy Is Not Angelina Jolie / Holy Boxes / Porn at Work / Jackson Publick Is A Household Name / Praised And Confused / Bathroom Snowflakes / Noice

107 - American Dads

Essential clothing / Something's Wrong With America's Dads / Movie Trivia / POD Trivia / Dream Warriors

You Ain't Nothin But Legs In Blue Suede Shoes and Cheap Sunglasses

Good names for cats, seeing Killswitch Engage at an early age, ZZ Top & Elvis medleys, an accidental "Mommy," JP sees Hell Yeah! in concert, Jahred has to beat Busdriver at Parappa the Rappa, extreme breakdancing and public sex at a (hed) PE show, System of a Down impressions, and more music we like (Medeski Martin & Wood, Tinarawen)

104 - I Don't Understand Why It's Called Voodo

Hello loyal Patrons! There weren't really any clips deleted from this week's episode, so instead you're getting a sneak preview of the entire comment section from next week's episode. All you need to know is that we're covering Godsmack's "Voodoo," the video features an Actual™ Wiccan™ Ceremony™, and these comments are lit. Plus there's a dog and kittens in the studio.

103 - House of Draim

Too much Alex in the monitors / Tears For Fears 2000 / good music sounds like The Beatles / Disturbed is "classic metal" / We Know Slogans

102 - Bonus - Pastacast

Hello, loyal Patrons! This week's bonus episode is short but sweet: The secret behind  the Tootsie Pop ad, Emma eats too much pasta, I like these goth men strangling themselves with cables, phantom memories about Jay Gordon's sexuality, and a couple more youtube/songmeanings comments

101 - Mission Hill Folk

Distinguished burps, political merit badges, shilling for Apple products, egotistical local businessmen, the horrors of modern feminism, an argument about Bono, and plenty more deranged comments about the Spice Girls

100 - Iron Butterfly

Clips! More Metallica shit-talking! More weird porn conversation! Discussion about some of the bullshit I have floating around the studio! Enjoy!

99 - ManiFest Destiny (Fyre Fest&MoM Outtakes)

This week Emma drops by to help me read from a mind-numbingly hilarious NYT article about the disastrous Fyre Fest, a "boutique" live music event founded by Ja Rule and geared toward "upwardly mobile millennial influencers."

The real-world result, however, was attendees literally being stranded on an island for days with no music and only prison sandwiches to eat, in what could be described as the least-sympathetic telling of Lord of Flies ever devised. Also,  outtakes from this week's show.

98 - Open Mic Trench Coat (Staind - Outside)

This week I descend into depression after having to listen to Staind’s Outside one too many times. Albert refuses to be moved by what is clearly a very disturbed singer/songwriter and talks about being mocked by his parents for wanting his ears pierced in elementary school.

Why are the fans at this private concert so happy and smiling when Aaron Lewis is clearly moments away from killing himself onstage? Did I used to work with him in a warehouse? Is this song a same as other one?

97 - Bonus - Sugar Reggae

This week we've got deleted stuff from the extra-long Bush episode, including arguments about what words mean and another one of JP's sex stories, this time involving a former teacher of ours.

96 - We Will Kiss, Girl (Starting Line - Best of Me)

Another deleted segment from episode 2. It's rough, people.

95 - Sensual Street Fighter (Whitesnake - Here I Go Again)

This episode we’re chatting about Whitesnake and their Iconic, ironic video for “Here I Go Again On My Own” featuring the singer’s future wife. How much did she know with that smirk?

We discuss the full-on boob slip that rocked the comments section, an IMPORTANT lyrical adjustment, and I begin to develop my grand unified theory of 80’s metal band names. Plus I just plain don't like this song. Angie does. It's fine.

94 - The Universal Language (Eiffel 65 - Blue)

Hello Patreon subscribers! Feast your ears on this extra long bonus episode in which we talked about Eiffel 65’s “Blue (Da Ba Di)." It's a segment from the "Nonsense Words" episode that ran too long for the format at the time, but I’m glad you’re hearing it now.

We chat about how I used to annoy my middle school teachers with this song, the 56 times “da ba di” is said, childhood interpretations of these totally dumb lyrics, and most importantly, the epic, 12 page backstory for the CGI aliens from the music video. 

Episode 93 - Bonus - Im' A Chick Magnet lol

This week for Patreon subscribers! We have a good chunk of the deleted half of the infamously drunken Episode 2! Hear the first time we talked about the Mess atrocity, Cadillac, as well as the conversation about MxPx’s Chick Magnet. 

Also: we teach Angie how easy it is to have babies, fight with my Apple TV, and recommend the new Pissed Jeans album.

92 - Bonus Content - Trolli Suckers

This week for Patreon subscribers we have cut scenes from episode 92, including a letterman-style countdown of my guests “Most Awkward Sexual Experiences,” beginning and ending with a graphic #1; a new bond supervillain; not peeing on my futon; and a semi-heartwarming story about a conversation my guest had with the grandmother of a trans kid.