Cool Stuff I Bought On The Internet This WeekThis week would have been a bore if it weren't for the Stanley Cup finals and these two things I bought online:
1) An awesome painting of Lester Bangs by Chicago artist Alice DuBois.
Bangs OD'd on prescription drugs while listening to The Human League, and I have (tongue-in-cheek, maybe) claimed that it was the band and not the drugs that killed him.
2) Dwight Twilley Band's second LP on vinyl.
As Martin Aston writes in the June issued of Mojo: Sincerely (their debut album) and 1977's Twilley Don't Mind are of a kind with Big Star's first two or Tom Petty: divine Anglo-Dixie guitar-pop, in Twilley's case injected with post-American Graffiti teen angst.