#826: Promo Postcards (From the Edge of Rock)

The trick is hanging onto the good stuff and throwing out the junk!  I’ve accumulated a lot of junk and not always made the wisest decisions when I throw things out.  Keeping things that don’t take up a lot of space is easiest, and postcards take up very little space.

These postcards came from a variety of sources and only one could be from the Record Store!  I’ve said it many times:  a used CD store gets nothing promotional.  Record companies assumed we would just turn around and sell it.  Which we made a point of never doing anyway.  But we rarely got anything from bands that I liked when we did get promo material.  It was the 90s after all.

I have two of these Test For Echo postcards from Rush.  You can tell I didn’t get them from my store since they’re from Future Shop for a MuchMusic contest.  I don’t know how I ended up with two.

I also have two of these Slik Toxik postcards.  My best guess is that these were packed inside my subscription of M.E.A.T Magazine.  There were perks to subscribing and I didn’t let my subscription lapse.  Slik Toxik were one of M.E.A.T’s pride and joys.  They were behind the band from a very early stage.

Another pair of postcards!  Deadline sent these to me for my birthdays in 1994 and 1995!  Little did they know that I’d still be promoting their band, 25 years later and long after they disappeared.

Then and now, I think this is a really cool touch.  It’s not like today, seeing somebody’s birthday on Facebook and wishing them a happy one.  Somebody had to keep a file with the fan club birthdays and mail these out at their expense.  Glad I hung onto these treasures; I even have my membership card!

 

Finally, the last few postcards here are from a mixture of sources.  I was a Sven Gali fan club member, and for Christmas they sent out of a fully signed postcard.  My membership must have expired shortly after.  The W.A.S.P. card is from their dreadful K.F.D. album, not a disc that I particularly treasure.   This is the only one that could have come from the Record Store, though it’s an unusual item for us.  And the Star Trek shuttlepod is there because I had room on the scanner bed.  No story; no idea where it came from.

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  1. I got a cool little Japanese A-Z of Iron Maiden booklet when I bought my Best of the Beast 2CD. It’s just a real shame that there’s a tiny little 1cm tear in the cover.

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      1. I’m a little miffed, because even if I fix it, it will still mess up the appearance of it. I don’t know how it got there but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there when it arrived. I keep the CD sealed away so it must have happened right after I got it if I did it.

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        2. Well I guess I’ll talk to them then. It’s not really a big deal. It’s in Japanese and the actual CDs and the case are in pristine condition

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  2. I disagree about K.F.D., I think it’s got a lot of strong songs with shitty ass industrial production. Other than the N.I.N. factor, the music sounds a lot like an older W.A.S.P. album.

    They totally ripped off “Head Like a Hole” for the title track. I mean, shamelessly. Imagine it with Crimson Idol production and you might like it more. Or you’ll still think it’s stinky poo, I don’t know. I know a lot of metal guys who have defended it recently. If you ever want to get rid of one of your two copies, I’m your guy, since I still don’t have it on CD.

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    1. Definitely shit ass industrial production. But no I won’t get rid of it. If you can set aside the stupid production and trendy qualities, you are right, there are some good melodies underneath. “U” and “Kill Your Pretty Face” come to mind.

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  3. Nice postcards. I got a few on my cd shelf. 2 James Durbin ones and Hanoi Rocks one. I’m sure I have more stacked somewhere. Used to bring them home from record stores and used them as bookmarks. Do u have any mouse pads? I have that Iron Maiden Final Frontier one that came with a magazine. Or any other band merch? The one I liked most is a Vic Rattlehead one which I think is originally a belt buckle but I have used it as paper weight.

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    1. No mouse pads but I do have two turntable pads — Rush and Queensryche. I have all kinds of music merch, and we’ll be looking at as much as I can photograph.

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  5. Nice collectibles there Mike. Glad you held on to those as those are something quite different than the normal posters and music. Especially a Birthday one. Pretty cool stuff.

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