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Today we announce a partnership that brings you classic indie rock albums at hugely discounted prices. Every week, Amazon.com is letting us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). Hopefully you'll be able to add these must-own LPs to your library without breaking your budget. First deal up: Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand.Released in 1994 by Scat, an independent label then located in Cleveland, Bee Thousand was Guided By Voices' seventh album. The Dayton group, a ragtag lineup of friends centered around Robert Pollard and vast quantities of beer, had been making music together as GBV since 1983. They released a number of other earlier gems (1992's Propeller, 1993's Vampire On Titus, etc.), but this 20-track/tidbit collection crystallized their lo-fi collagist approach to pop songwriting and, via Matador's help with distribution, propelled the band onto stereos far beyond their hometown.
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There are so, so many great Guided By Voices songs, and “Game Of Pricks” might be the greatest of all. The Alien Lanes banger has been covered many times over the years, by artists including Owen Pallett, Waxahatchee, Jimmy Eat World, and Mo Kenney. Curiously, most of those have been intimate solo renditions of a song that or...
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Here's some news that will not surprise you if you know anything about Robert Pollard: Guided By Voices are prepping their third album of 2020 for release in December. The upcoming Styles We Paid For joins the previously released Surrender Your Poppy Field and Mirrored Aztec to complete GBV's 2020 triad.
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Guided By Voices are the perpetual motion machine of American indie rock -- a band so ceaselessly and dauntingly prolific that they've now got their very own subscription service. Last year, Guided By Voices released three albums and ended things with a 100-song New Year's Eve set in Los Angeles. Back in February, they dropped…


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