Apathy is an Institution

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Recorded at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC with Jay Matheson 2011-2012

Mastered by Mammoth Mastering

Released by Get Better Records, 86'd Records, Fat Sandwich Records, Lost Cat Records, Behind Punk Records (check those websites to buy online)

Album Art by Patrick Matanle

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released 25 December 2012

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DIY punk band.

The only purposes are REVOLUTION (in your mind, for the Earth, for the people, etc) and to meet rad buddies.

We can show trade.

If you disagree with something we write let's chat hangargv@gmail.com xo ... more

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Track Name: Old Grove
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Track Name: Heterosexist Tragedy
Heterosexist Tragedy: Your misogynist attitude is too much to bear. That's someone’s child and you don't care. I hope you stay alone until your heart gets a little deeper. Because all humyn life is beautiful when you're not sitting on a throne. Young friend, I hope you think about your life. Don't end up doin' something you'll regret; you get no take backs. Old friend, I hope you found love in life, still dance and stay up all damn night. And scream the lessons you've learned. All friends, you better excommunicate those who will rape. Preach consent in our communities. All friends, you better excommunicate those who have raped. Safety in our communities. Don't touch unless you've asked. Respect in intimacy and set personal boundaries. Every humyn has the right to choose not to use you tonight.
Track Name: Punx (like Patrick) Rad (like Randi)/There Hasn't Been a Broadcast in 3 Days
I'm not ashamed. I’m not cool but at least I support change. I'm busy being free. What makes me strong makes you weak and you have the nerve to tell me how to live. You are a sheep in a wolves cloak and you like it. Go ahead and waste away. Go away. Because if all of this is fake, I still have friends and when I am forty, I'll be here with them. Thank you for thinking this is a trend. Punk for president until the bitter end.
Explanation: Stay true to yourself. Thank you for supporting this band, reading this book, being a part of DIY punk. We have our own world within the this earth; let’s try and see how far we can take it. This solidarity game we play. Let’s run, let’s grow. Where the hell is the finish line? How will we ever know if we have wasted our whole lives? Well… without love your future isn’t very bright and without freedom you only have chains. And nothing will move unless you start today.


I don't know what's happening to me (Tina. Now let me eat your brain), am I dead am I alive? Just remember to strike for my head because when there's no more room in hell and the dead walk the earth. I don't really want to shoot the president, it just sounded like something a zombie would do and the reason it's on this recording is because I wanted you "the listener" to read our lyrics.... Lyrics are an essential part of this band so please read the rest of them...

BTW, people have been arrested for saying less than "I wanna shoot the prezzydent." Arrested for saying nothing; just standing. Even though this ground we stand on was stolen, there is a constitution meant to protect some rights of Americans. The freedom of speech must always be protected. I don't advocate shooting anything but beer cans out in rural South Carolina in a place called Levi Land... Thank you for reading the lyrics by the way that's the most important part of this band.)...
Explanation: This song is about my everlasting love for zombies and the Quincy Punx.

http://www.infowars.com/cop-arrests-nbc-reporters-says-your-first-amendment-right-can-be-terminated/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Track Name: You Kill People Everyday
You Kill People Every Day – Is punk my saving grace? Or was it my own socialized up brining? What sets a person apart? Was I chosen? Is it personal confidence? There is one thing I cannot stand is when revolution is controlled by socialized tradition. There is one thing I cannot stand is when revolution is halted by cultural institutions. Question everything; reflection is a rebirth of thinking. Is being a steward to the earth really that complicated? Is being a steward to each other really that radical?
Track Name: My Immune System is My Doctor
A man named Alan Yurko was falsely charged and sent to live in prison for shaking his child to death. A charge in which has put 300 thousand Americans behind bars. However, his infant son was killed by an adverse reaction to a vaccination. Alan Yurko went to prison for life... The cover up was proven and he was freed. You are socialized in a false constitution of preconceived provided safety the corporate and collaborative powers do not have your best interest at heart. And I am the sensationalist... I'm the skeptic psychopath...
Heavy metals in our soil and fluoride flowing from your tap. These poisons make you pacified and flaccid. Yet I'm the sensationalist, the skeptic psychopath... Take one look at ourselves for once, we're a billboard that talks.
Explanation: Alan Yurko - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TdSp3hyuHk

Vaccinations are not from the earth. I am aware of the arguments for vaccinations and some are valid. But, I will not be MANDATED what to put in my body. Especially if it comes from pharmaceutical companies that are making a killing off of that flu shot every year and lobbying congress for additional big pharma mandates.

http://www.relfe.com/vaccine.html

http://www.wanttoknow.info/060215vaccinesmercurydangers
Track Name: Violators Will Be Prosecuted
The day that David Rockefeller bought the whole farm was the same as the day that a plant could save the whole world was hung by a petroleum noose. The saboteurs did a great job on burying this one. We all know the process equals profits and the solution is not an option. We all know the process equals profits and better living through science is a lie. A psychoactive compound serves as a rallying cry for a culture that denies an obvious saving grace. A plant that will save the world. (And the irony is) The Patriots that burn the bush don't even know their own smoke driven past.
Track Name: Home is the Heart of Florida
Only 500 miles away. Revolutionary dreams are not some child-hood fantasy these kids treat us like family. The scene is tied together with mosquito infested swamps and is united by the currents and tides. I commend this community for their inclusivity. We all need inspiration and to remember why we travel across the land. From the 165 to the tight house, we all know this peninsula can't drown in the sand.
Explanation: Obviously, friends made this book possible. We meet so many people in this community and I love it when some of them get stuck in your heart. When they become much more than tour acquaintances. If you have ever had this experience you know what I am talking about. And I hope you have because it’s a huge reason that I play punk rock music. I get to meet people like Wes Seefried. He is from DeLand. He and a few others, namely, Nathan Walters, are trying to make DeLand a great place to live. It’s a tiny town that doesn’t do many shows and hasn’t really ever had any. Yet, their shows are normally pretty big and “skate through a tower of beer cans” type of fun; some of the most memorable shows of my life. But, that is not the only reason why I love those two or why I wrote this song. This song is also about people like Matt in Tampa. He plays in Criminal Culture and Expressways. He does a lot for his town like working all types of shows at Transitions. Also about the majority of kids in Tallahassee. There are so many that have been great to us. So much so that we are inspired to move there. Including Brainstorm, Little League, Gorgeous and others. They have a short documentary about their scene. And finally, St. Augustine; Adam and I had been playing the 165 for years. I rode my first triple-decker tall bike at that house and friends that have always been great to us including Andrew Virga/The Cougs, Stiff Bindles, and Charlie Soldana/The Resonants. The good vibes that people give off really mean a lot and for us everyone has been an amazing person that is willing to work together and make a bigger and better community. Even though it’s probably not nearly as utopian as I make it out to be on the inside. That doesn’t really matter does it? It makes us dream and it motivates us to make our town better. Our spaces better.
Track Name: Along For the Ride
You can't deny your laziness, this "well" didn't dry up too quickly. You and I are nothing less than a faucet that's been leaking. Does this mean the songs that we sang were meaningless? Does this mean we have become as fraudulent as those we oppose? Well, we have grown without your help. And the pyramid isn't crumbling down. I can be the one to say you need to give if you plan to take. We don't need you. Obvious lies what were you trying to prove? I can see through the disguise, I can see the truth. I tried to love you and you gave into abuse. I tried to help you gave only an excuse..
Track Name: For One Last Breath
Dear my beautiful wife and children, I'm sorry I have to leave you in this condition. For this company I must now suffocate. And I've never been so strong in my faith because this mountain's my grave. Please, bury me with the coal on my face. I'm sorry to subject you to a miner’s fate. I will forever hold this mountain up until the tractors come and start digging down. And rip the roof off my tomb in Appalachia. Don’t rip the roof off of my tomb in Appalachia.
Explanation: This song is about the life of a coal miner. West Virginia is a very close neighbor and we live at the foot of the Appalachian mountains. Therefore, we have a close connection to both the miners and the practice of mountain top removal mining. Many of the miners themselves disagree with the practice because, like myself, feel a part of the mountains and can’t stand seeing them disassembled. However, as we all know traditional coal mining is highly dangerous. It’s a difficult and somber issue.
Track Name: Dreams of Industrial Collapse
We'll watch the buildings crumble and the roads corrode from our rocking chairs with the scent of flames extinguished by the fresh herbs growing at our feet. We'll hang above the floods in our hammocks and pick fruit straight from the trees. Using cash as kindling our savings are in seed. Unity with this earth means becoming a part of its system not just a resourceful outsider. Unity with this earth means becoming a part of its system not just a respectful outsider... Food not lawns. Organic permaculture not toxic agriculture. Community not consumerism. Sustainably it survival. Pesticides and herbicides are slow forms of suicide. Freedom starts with sowing your seeds.

Explanation: Our earth is dying and we have a hard time trying to remember our bags for the grocery store, we buy fuel and burn it all over the country, we hate corporatism, but have a hard time surviving out of its rule. With toxic agriculture and peak oil on our horizon; is the collapse coming? And even if it isn’t; is trying to be a steward to our earth really that complicated (or offensive)? It’s okay to break down socialized needs and begin to grow in your relationship with the earth by growing a garden. The change will become natural.
These are lyrics I wrote hypocritically enough on an airplane ride back from Moab, Utah. I spent some time camping, hiking and riding out there with Kerri. There is something about the desert that makes me very philosophical. I spent a lot of my time relaxing and reflecting on my summer. Half of my summer/spring was spent in a van traveling all over the US. The other half was working in my yard for up to four hours a day; preparing garden beds, weeding, tending soil, making “things” out of broken “stuff” and building a green house. I thought about how revolutionary it is to grow a garden with your friends and live off of the grid. So that became my life-goal. When the collapse happens… we’ll be just fine.
If you are interested in growing a garden it’s rather easy. I suggest creating raised-beds, unless you live out in the country somewhere. The reason I say you should grow using raised beds is because there are many unknown toxins found in our soil. Plus, you don’t know what was put on your “planting grounds” in the past. Whenever I dig into the soil at my house in Greenville, I pick up large pieces of coal and old garbage from the 1950’s. The thing is that with a raised bed you can control what goes into your plants. I’d say the only downfall of having a raised-bed garden is that it has to be watered more often.
But, I have a recommendation for that. Get a hose and put a stopper on the end. Take a nail and hammer and pound small holes all around your hose about half an inch apart. It’s a lot of work, but when you are finished you will have a DIY soaker for your garden. Where you will lay the hose in the garden and turn the water on. The little holes allow just a small amount of water to leak out and into the soil. It’s essential to have when putting fresh transplants into your garden. They need damp soil and will die if they dry out.
My house does not have gutters; therefore, rainwater collection is difficult. The way I solved that problem is by suspending a large tarp in the back yard and putting a hole in the center of it that leads to a barrel. This allows for a great deal of rain water to flow into a barrel. It’s pretty ugly, but it gets the job done.
Planting a garden is an exercise in sustainability, creativity and problem solving. Keep it organic. Kill the ants with boiling water (pour it until you get the queen). Stop the aphids with Doctor Bronner’s soap in a spray bottle. Sprinkle corn meal all around because it explodes any pests that may eat it. Think twice before squishing bugs because they may be good for the garden. Compost what you don’t use, just make a big pile in an open space. Make sure the sun hits it and you don’t add anything that is not a fruit or vegetable.
Do you know what a “sweet gum ball” is? If not, they are the little spikey balls that fall off sweet gum trees. They are the perfect mulch because many critters won’t crawl over them to get to your veggies. Hay and leaf mold (leaves from the fall) will suffice. Mulching your garden saves water too!
You can harvest some plants continuously throughout your growing season like all the varieties of greens and tomatoes. Just pull of the leaves or fruits that are ready to eat and they will keep coming back throughout the season.
Gardening is something you learn by doing. So get busy! Start off huge, dive in over your head. Spend hours in the garden everyday listening to punk rock records.
Track Name: Return the Black Hills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIgIaI5AVpY
Track Name: Warcry/Two-Faced and Fucked
Warcry - How confident we have become as we bare witness to these false flags and smoke and mirror conspiracies. I wish you'd wake up please. We realize the motivation behind the digital bombardment and exile from nature is to drag us further from ourselves and closer to our graves (while we deposit as much interest as possible along the way) But, we fail to implement the key to victory they start with your wallet and ends with collective communities.

Two-Faced and Fkd- You hate everything you can't understand you're too afraid to be different, I'm sorry I'm not like you, if I were I'd hate me to, you follow the hand of pointed fingers, you don't know a thing about me, if I was a know it all just like you I'd be proud to say I don't know shit... lyrics by David Cappella
Track Name: This Music is My Life
I've been shaken, held back tears while grinning. I couldn't agree more with your process and purity. Songs of love and rejection, of hope and reflection. I've been shaken by steal backbones breaking by these bands and these beautiful chords; hell bent and hard-lined on love. It starts in my heart, it warms my feet, erases my conscience and infects me. This point is where I am supposed to be.
Track Name: 30 Cent an Hour is Slavery
The cages were created to break you. To let you taste freedom and bring you back in. To beckon on instinct, not intellect. To perpetuate a cycle of slavery. Where the basis of your own rehabilitation is your own exploitation. No wonder you're angry. I can't blame you for you're abuse in this time of sadness. Where you're blamed for who you are; I won't forget what. They say ignorance is bliss, but right now I don't want any part of it. "He's a bad man, he's an evil man. He puts needles in his veins." "It's a choice" and "It's his culture" That's just your fear speaking. Every drug addict, prostitute and prisoner is a humyn being and when YOU treat them like less YOU steal their dignity.
Track Name: Never Grow Up
I guess I never knew I was hard to like. Intimidating, harsh and unapproachable where things I never thought to be. But sometimes you can’t let them crush your spirit. I’m sorry to say I have something to believe in. And sometimes you can’t let them win you over. I’m sorry to say this time won’t compromise. What can you say for yourself?

Explanation: Have you ever just believed in something so strongly that it becomes a part of you and it ends up manifesting itself in all areas of your life and then along the way people just want to constantly discourage you, tear you down, make a mockery of you? And they don’t even realize is that what you’re doing is something is positive for yourself and others. This song is kind of a response to those “people” who don’t understand and don’t have the open-mind or brain capacity to ever comprehend. Those kinds of “normal” people who claim one thing but are just completely full of shit and lead a life that I want nothing to do with. It is a reminder that we all need to be quicker with the fuck you. Be quicker with the fuck you when situations arise… Quicker with the fuck off when people piss on your beliefs due to their own ignorance…We are punks. We must bite. Not be normal passive boring individuals. Our calling is to fight for what is right and what we believe in. Whether it be standing up against the rapist, sexism, your boss, the fucking racist cops, or just about any kind of LIE we as human beings have been indoctrinated in this society wit. When shit gets called out… Someone just might hear your voice and be inspired. That could be a beginning for someone getting educated and learning to make a difference in the world. Never give up, never give in. I don’t wanna grow up and be like them. Punk forever.
- Kerri Beth
Track Name: A Shadow that will Last a Lifetime
A Shadow That Will Last a Lifetime – Joyous heart and jet black hair my beautiful girl don’t drown. Get out of that murky water there and live for yourself. Come back and save the others. You’re a strong swimmer at nine years old. While others are paddling you sprint and you stroke. I couldn’t imagine the fear, the endless amount of confusion and the scariest part is I have no idea how many of my kids have been hurt like this. A man raped a child and hasn’t had hell to pay. Justice is a blind goddess; her bandage covers two sores that once held eyes. A man raped a child and hasn’t had hell to pay.
Track Name: Indigenous Man Knows No Borders/Tick Tock Deth Clock
Indigenous Man Knows No Borders - Do you get angry when you see the hypocrisy? I do. And you should to; it's in your nature. Your fellow man (humyn) is at war and your keyboard is tapping away. Each click represents a more self-indulgent and pacified future. You're just meat for the machine. How could any man (humyn) be illegal? Watch out for border patrol, climb the fence, they steal your soul. While my eyes are burning holes in a flag that represents freedom. Not the enforcement of it. Is our foundation really made of sand? Freedom and huddled masses only words to fuel a fucking campaign man? While the indigenous man sees no borders, your racism hides in plain sight. OPINIONS BASED ON FEAR NOT ON FACT. This heart I hold has not capacity for the hatred of my brothers and sisters and it pumps blood all the same. (So what more can my anger do than) fuel the fire in your heart. It's up to us now. Revolution.
Explanation: This song is about the obvious racism seated in the anti-immigration movement. Sometimes I don’t think a song can do anything. “What is it really changing?” But honestly, I know that listening to records changed my life and it is the fuel that keeps a relentless fire burning. A passion for change, something I can dedicate my existence to. Unity is essential, find similarities in difference. The common thread of humanity can cross any cultural boundary.