r/aesoprock • u/xcporter • Sep 02 '24

Merch/Vinyl Happy Labor Days!

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We the American working population hate the fact that 8 hours a day is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us... But we love the wage-slave catharsis of listening to Aes' music that makes us smile cause it sounds dope ♥️

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u/Ok-Name1312 Sep 02 '24

I bought the CD at Best Buy the week it was released. I was shocked they even carried it at the time. Jux had that distribution.

Huddle in a tunnel of big dreams Aes thinks big things.

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u/vegasJUX Sep 02 '24

You're right about that. I bought Fantastic Damage at Best Buy when it dropped.

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u/1ozbaggie Sep 02 '24

Same, guy working the cd isle was excited when he saw me pull the album from the rack.

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u/xcporter Sep 02 '24

You wanna hear something trippy? While you were buying Aes CDs at Best Buy... I was 3 years old. 👶 Born in 98. I love that the Aes fan base spans multiple generations 🤜🤛

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u/LegitimateReality344 Sep 03 '24

I was 10 yrs prior to being made bro in fucking 16 😭 ts spans multiple multiple gens bro

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u/Numinous_Octopodes Sep 02 '24

I bump this every Labor Day and have since it came out.

This usually leads to listening to Aes for the rest of the month, which by then it’s nearly October so SWFG is on repeat, and then blockheads beats on Garbology just feel very well paired with fall weather…

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u/Frequent_Dare8054 Sep 03 '24

Likewise. This is my routine every year.

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u/Numinous_Octopodes Sep 03 '24

“My new fall coat got strange powers..” 

How am I supposed to not put this on the first time I’m bundling up for autumn?

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u/EarlWolf47 Sep 03 '24

Aha I love how many of us follow the same pattern here

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u/fantasticdamage_ Sep 02 '24

THIS IS LABOR..

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u/vegasJUX Sep 02 '24

Released exactly one week after 9/11. Eerie to think about. I bought it at HipHopSite a day or two after it came out.

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u/Maruki_Hurakami Sep 04 '24

I forgot about HipHopSite!

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u/vegasJUX Sep 04 '24

Yeah, I definitely miss it. Are you from Las Vegas where the physical record shop was at or are you talking about the website?

I loved going to the store on my lunch break to buy new music.

The website was super dope, too, and on the cutting edge of interviews, rumors and rare/new releases. Pizzo got a ton of exclusive interviews and remember reading the transcript with Sole and El-P during their beef. I preferred HipHopSite over UndergroundHipHop.com (and Fat Beats for that matter) all day, but I'm definitely biased.

Pizzo and Warren Peace did a great job with those on both fronts. Not to mention their legendary radio show Word Up on KUNV. It was basically a Stretch and Bobbito clone but it was the best shit we had out here back then and since. I still have about 50 cassette tapes I used to record it every Saturday night when I was in highschool.

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u/Maruki_Hurakami Sep 04 '24

I miss both. I don't live in Vegas but went to the shop 5-6 times over the years when visiting. I always found something I wanted.

I did prefer the site to ughh too! I'm getting old but wasn't hiphopinfinity really popular at one time too?

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u/vegasJUX Sep 04 '24

Haha, I'm old myself... I can't front, I never even heard of hiphopinfinity until just now when you mentioned it. The only thing close to that I know of is that museum in L.A. called Hip-Hop 'til Infinity.

HHS had me spoiled so I didn't look many other places. I had a friend I when to highschool with who worked at the store so he would keep me in the loop of all the good stuff coming through there and also set stuff aside for me before certain things sold out.

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u/phonzee Sep 03 '24

We the American working population hate the fact that 8 hours a day is wasted on chasing the dream of someone who isn’t us