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The Breeders
I bought the cassingle for this song in '93 i believe. shit was catchy as fuck. a good friend of mine and i were discussing the other day the peculiar smell that accompanied the cassingle. for those of you who dont remember, the cassingle was generally a black cassette tape with the hit song of your choice on one side and a remix/live track/b-side on the other, all wrapped up in a decorative cardboard-esque slipcase....and they all smelled the same. i had tons of them. now the slipcase is where the funny smell actually originated. years later i was to learn that the smell was that of patchouli (it was one of those olfactory cognates i.e. a smell that reminds you of something from the past) whilst perusing a head shop with some friends. the really weird thing, is that it was the exact same smell from when you first busted He-Man out of his packaging or any other action figure of that era. im guessing it was the same cardboard material that they used to package both, but why patchouli? was it the same dude who ran the shift at the packaging plant or something? fucking bizarre.
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