When we went into Albini’s mixing booth, I noticed a big sticker on one of his speakers. It said “RAPEMAN.” I asked him what “Rapeman” was, and he told me it was one of his bands. “Why is your band called Rapeman?” I asked. “We named it after a comic book where the superhero is a rapist,” he replied. I walked outside and sat on the stoop and held my hands over my ears, just like I used to when my dad and my sister fought. But this time I had my hands over my ears so I didn’t have to hear the shitty mix Steve Albini was doing of our songs. When I returned to Olympia, I threw the tape out of my
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