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FREE SHIT - Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear

HEY, YOU CHEAP BASTARDS, LOOKIN FOR FREE SHIT, I OUGHTTAAAAA!!! Click over to the friendly kids at CDBABY.comand buy our brand spankin new record Dawn's Early Apocalypse for a mere $10.00. YOU COULDN'T BEAT THAT WITH A STICK IF YOU HAD AN AUTOMATRONIC LOW-PRICE-BEATING STICK!!!

Okay, okay, you want to sample first? FINE, HERE'S YOUR FREE SHIT! Click over to ourMYSPACE PAGE for absolutely free listens to new tracks of the disc, plus an absolutely free download or two. IF ONLY WE COULD GET THAT AT THE "MESSAGE PARLOR"!!

PLUS, BITCHIN NEW TRACKS BELOW FROM GABE'S BELOW!

LIVE MP3s?!? Disclaimer: If you're anything like me, you'll utterly hate how this shit sounds, which is no offense to Tim Jamison of Cedar Falls and Brandon Parkhurst of Altoona, WI, who have been to too many shows with their digital toys to NOT make me feel guilty about not playing better. But like I keep telling them, live music is for listening to live where bodies, surfaces and beer absorb the blemishes, and recorded music, well, that's why you fucking go to a studio to make your records, right? Nevertheless, in the interest of full disclosure, and because some people dig this shit, here's a few nuggets of live joy, some old shit, some new, some borrowed and no goddamn blues, because I'm white and have more respect for others than to subject them to me pretending towards more actual soul than I have.

Just click on the red letters to load. Keep in mind, if these start playing on your computer and there are no actual peripheral speakers, they will take on all the sonic charm of bunnies being tortured. Plug in some headphones and you will at least get less a sense of that. Then turn it up loud. And flip off your boss, that dick.

LIVE IN LA! The New York-based "Road Smear" -- Mick on bass, Dave on kit, Matt on lead guitar -- kicks it in the teeth in these killer tracks our largely unattended show at The Mint.

One to Grow On
Kill the Poor
Slut
My Girlfriend's Way Too Hot for Me
Hey, Hitler!
St. Booze
She's Leaving You
Fuck Fuck Fuck

KILLER NEW LIVE-AT-GABE'S TRACKS! Tim & Brandon got a great room sound our last show at Gabe's and we happened to knock these first three out of the fucking park, to the point where I'm not so embarrassed about them. Then at our last show, we tried a little something different, some b-set songs, included this Gene Clark classic I used to do back with The Hangdogs, and Tim got a bitchin print of that. So for the first time I can say, ENJOY!

My Girlfriend's Way Too Hot for Me

Honea Path

Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie)

Why Not Your Baby (Gene Clark)

Grimm solo, The Mill, Aug. 4, 2005 (engineer: Tim). This was a last minute fill-in thing for Trev so I pulled some stuff out of my ass and, lo and besotted, some of it came out half-listenable. The first two are Hangdogs songs, the last one of my favorite Old 97s songs, that, yes, I screw up the words on here and there, so sue me. Which, again, if you're a newly-felched, canker-ridden RIAA piece of shit, you probably will anyway.
Out There
The World Is Yours
Salome

POSTERS I DID ON MY OWN MAC!Nifty 8.5x11 posters designed in Quark and Photoshop by Matthew Grimm himself -- well, MYself -- in lieu of any actual promotional budget for the band or anybody who knows how to use Quark or Photoshop. Just click and download them as a TIFF file, but remember, these are designed specifically to be "block-prints" on colored background, so they're not going to look as cool black-on-white. We've added some colored paper recommendations for each design. We've got specific show-prints and some generic designs, the latter perfect to seed early Red Smear brand awareness in your dorms, apartments, cubicles, bars, malls, Post Offices, community centers, gun clubs, Mary Kay parties, pool parties, dildo parties (void in Texas), sausage parties, key parties, houses of worship, houses of ill-repute, Houses of the Spirits (Chile only), funeral homes, opium dens, distilleries, shop floors, loading docks, Kinko'ses, Big Box retailers, porn superstores, and, of course, bosses' wives' bedrooms. Just click, print and enjoy.*

red-herring hottie series
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rocket red
 
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rocket red
 
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rocket red
 
propaganda
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re-entry red
 
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re-entry red
 
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re-entry red
 
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re-entry red
 
advertorial
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pale green
 
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goldenrod
 
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bright yellow
 

*enjoyment not guaranteed



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