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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Last Ever Jack White/Third Man Post!


Really! I'm quite sick of him at this moment. Not as an artist or performer. But as a record label boss. How much nonsense can he stand to release? I mean, does anyone really want to buy a 7" of an auctioneer rambling on and on about a mock auction? Don't answer that! Even from a collector's point of view, how can you keep up? At the rate he's issuing all these vinyl gimmicks, you'll be broke by Spring. Enough already.

Is he taking advantage of record label completists? You decide. I've already stopped buying all his bullshit releases.

Read all the details as ripped off from Pitchfork after the jump...

It's business as (un)usual over at

Consequence of Sound points out that on February 22, Third Man will release the latest installment in its spoken word/instructional-focused "Green Series" (which previously included that Conan O'Brien single): a 7" from impersonator and human meme Amy Walker, whose exactly-what-it-sounds-like YouTube clip "21 Accents" is currently running at over five million views.

According to the Third Man site, the A-side will feature Walker running through a selection of her accents; the B-side will feature her and White discussing "overuse of the word 'like' by modern teenagers, offending people by speaking in their accents and a wide-range of other topical subjects in an exploration of accents and dialects and how they relate to peoples preconceptions, and influence prejudices." The label will issue the single in 30(!) different sleeves, each documenting a different persona of Walker's. (That's one of the sleeves above, on the left-hand side; check out the rest of them here.)

Also on February 22, Third Man will release another Green Series 7", featuring the North Carolina auctioneer Jerry King (the right-hand picture above is the single art). The A-side will feature a dialogue between him and White on "the history, cadence, rhythm and speed of Jerry's auctioneering;" the B-side, on the other hand, will contain two separate grooves, each featuring a mock auction-- specifically, an automobile auction and a "tobacco/chocolate cake" auction. OK!
Jack White's Third Man Records. The latest idea to come from a label that recently brought us a animatronic music-playing monkey band? A pair of bizarre spoken-word 7" releases, naturally.

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