"This is the little stuff" - Discount

Discount's kinda like Crimpshrine. You always hear about how broadly influential they are, but you never hear them unless you come across some beaten-up seven inch in some bumfuck California record store.

However, every female-fronted pop-punk band that isn't emo shitheads like Paramore obviously takes them as an influence. Shit, you can even hear a bit of them in Avril Lavinge, although that's not meant to mean that 1) Discount is douche-y, or 2) Avril is in any way tuned to punk culture.

Discount is yet another greta band from the seemingly bottomless Gainesville, FL, scene, and one that always rules, no matter what release of theirs you have. I was first introduced to them when I was broke in a record store, but could still afford the now legendary Punk Uprisings 2 compilation, which was only a few dollars. Discount appeared on the CD with the song "Clap and Cough," which came to me at the right time. I was going through some legal problems, and a lot of my friends were jumping ship. I still have the lyrics up on my wall in my bedroom in my parents' home; the only person they share wall-quote space with is Abraham Lincoln.

They put out some great albums, one classic (the virtually peerless-within-their-scene Half Fiction) and a million amazing singles and splits. I'm putting only a sampling of the Discount songs I love. If I could, I'd post whole albums and make everyone listen to them. But I'm not Dick Cheney...yet.

PS - Alison's in the Kills now, but don't hold that against her.

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/1529016/Discount_K.V._T_Shirt.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/4462543/Discount_Clap_and_Cough.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/8417035/Discount_Pocket_Bomb.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/2475420/Discount_math_won_t_miss_you.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/507825/Discount_broken_to_blue.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/8125077/Discount_I_Dont_I_Do.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/7729719/Discount_Portrait_of_a_Cigarette.mp3.html

http://www.mysharefile.com/v/3153450/discount_Successfully_Delirious.mp3.html