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Thurston Moore Interview. Wooooo 4. (Excerpt.)

The cool thing about doing Q&A stuff is that you can edit out all the dumb shit you said because you were so nervous. I'm a grown-ass man but sometimes I dissolve into a squeaky little bitch when I interview someone who has an ass with sunshine beaming out of it. Thurston Moore possesses such an ass. Man, you should have heard the stupid shit I said during this interview. I really thought I'd blown it, but then with some clever cut and paste work I managed to make it sound like I'm interviewing someone as intimidating as the postman: "So, when are you coming by again with some more mail then? Oh yeah? Huh. Cool." We all know who Thurston is, but for the sake of my dad, Thurston Moore is in a rock band called Sonic Youth. You know, dad, Rock 'n Roll? You remember…like Elvis. Elvis? E-L-V-I-S. Yes, Blue Suede the Hound Dog, that's right…so Sonic Youth is like Elvis but different. Here Dad, have another fruit roll-up.

-What are you doing right now?
-Ah, just in the studio working on vocals. Me and Kim are both singing.
-For the new record?
-Yeah.
-Are you ever gonna do another Psychic Hearts?
-That's the next thing we have to do after we do this, sit down and do Psychic Hearts II.
-Really!?
-Uh-huh.
-Excellent! Psychic Hearts came out in the what—early '90s? It's been a while.
-I keep writing Psychic Hearts II and then when I start thinking I'm ready to record, its time to do another Sonic Youth record and I shuffle the songs into what Sonic Youth is doing…
-Bummer.
-Well, it works alright.
-Whats the new Sonic Youth record called?
-Well, it might be called Do you believe in rapture? [The album was released on June 13th, after this interview took place, under the title Rather Ripped.]
-How's it sounding?
-Ah… it's very straight up, kind of like NewYork Dolls…er…Throbbing Gristle…No, it's sort of ah…it's sort of a rock 'n roll record for us.
-Really?
-Maybe, I don't know. Kinda weird record…little bit of a…kinda Lou Reed 1972 vibe…
-Right.
-But it's not old fashioned. I don't know…I don't really know how to play.
-What are you talking about?
-I'm just making stuff up.
-What's your stance on downloading?
-Well, I like it in a way, because it really allows people to go out and discover…
-To explore.
-Yeah. In a way, the music industry is so used to a certain standard—and that's selling billions of records and making a lot of money—and in a way it puts music and musicians in this wholly other, exalted kind of economic world, and I never really saw the reason for that, you know? Why should somebody doing this job be paid more than somebody who's working in an office? Or a petrol station? I mean, not that I'm trying to denigrate it but I'm just saying that the fact that people are so scared for their money…they need to rethink the concept of what they're doing. I don't know, it never really affects us because we were never really big money makers, but I can see how being Metallica, who are used to making millions of dollars, feeling like they're throwing millions of dollars away because people just aren't buying their records.
-Yeah.
-They've got a big overhead, they've invested so much…
-How much would it cost me to have Sonic Youth play the launch of the next Wooooo?
-When is it?
-I think March if the weather's nice.
-Oh, forget about it.
-Why! What are you doing in March?
-Oh March, we're like totally…I don't think there's a day in March I can actually…breathe hardly…[incoherent mumble]…
-What about for $1000?
-$1000?
-Yup. One-Thousand dollars.
-$1000?
-Three zeros.
[silence]

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