Amazon.com: Music: Pink Flag/Chairs Missing/154 [BOX SET] [IMPORT]

So, I’m assuming you know that if you buy stuff from this site through Amazon the site earns a commission. And you no doubt know how much I appreciate it. I think the commissions last year earned about $50, which thanks to the good folks at your-site.com (if you sign up with them tell them I sent you), covered most of the web hosting.

What you might not know is that if you buy, let’s say, Ron Shandler’s latest Forecaster, and you buy something else, I get to see what it was. I don’t get to see who bought it, rest assured there are no Admiral Poindexters here at askrotoman.com, but I do get to live vicariously.

And today I happened to be going through the logs and what did I find? A reader bought a Wire box set.

All I can say is, Bravo. Wire isn’t to everyone’s taste, to be sure, but there was no more economical yet extravagant, abstract yet organic, punky but arty band to come out of anywhere than Wire.

I’ve got the vinyl versions of Pink Flag and Chairs Missing down in the basement, but I don’t know the music on 154. I’m not even sure why not.

All I know is that there aren’t many days that go by when I don’t start humming, “Saw her in a mag, kissing a man. Saw her in a mag, kissing a man,” which inevitably leads into, “I knew a girl name Nikki…” But that’s a different band.