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I know...drawings of buildings for album art is pretty fucking stupi---

*looks at OP's avatar

 

ouch.

 

Neighborhoods was the first album cycle that I got to experience as a fan and the first (and only time with Tom) that I saw them live so it will always hold an extremely special place in my heart

 

My first Blink album cycle as a fan was Enema so I’m either quite a bit older than you or you were just a new convert.

 

as a mormon 12-13 yr old dying to own enema and the NFG self-titled album, but couldn't because the album covers had the nurse and a pile of condoms on the cover - it was a tough life. Had to beg for burned copies. Also remember a kid named Brad making fun of me when he overheard me talking about my dilemma saying "Your mom sucks. My mom bought me a rap cd with a guy eating a girl's ass out." I wonder what record that was...

 

that kid brad rules lmfao

 

Lol I had to get the edited versions of Untitled and Take Off Your Pants

 

I was lucky to have parents that bought me the parental advisory records. I remember listening to my friend’s copies of 2001 and then there was x and thinking they were mostly unlistenable. I think it was probably a combination of my parents being into music and remembering how controversial certain classic artists were in their time and my sister pushing things through with Madonna, Michael Jackson, and the grunge artists.

 

I had edited rap albums (looking at you Slim Shady LP), but my parents never cared about Blink being PA.... I remember 9th grade me looking right at my mom when they started Family Reunion at the Pop Disaster, saying "Im sorry", then belting out every lyric at the top of my voice.

 

My mom basically held my hand and guided me through the Dude Ranch release. She loved the song Dammit and thought it was “cute”. She took me to the store and bought me the album. Changed my damn life.

She probably tired of me playing the Space Jam and The Crow soundtracks. Was also into Coolio and Usher lol.

 

Started out with Enema. Thankfully it didn’t have a PA sticker from the start or I would have had to get it edited. My mom said the cover was disgusting when getting it for me for my 13th birthday at Sam Goody’s haha

This was in between having to get edited copies of Significant Other and The Marshall Mathers LP. By the time The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water) came out in late 2000 she couldn’t be bothered to censor me anymore. Maybe it was because of Napster or knowing I was listening to the explicit versions elsewhere with friends.

 

My grandma bought me the parental advisory Significant Other and Enema at a CD store from a mall in Indianapolis the day after Christmas bc she didn’t realize she got me a few things less than my siblings and cousins.

 

Worst thing I had a relative buy me was when I had my grandma get me the first Cobra Starship album. I would pay to see her face when she brought this to the counter:

 

I will never forget my dad buying Enema Strikes Back for me at "The Wall" on a Tuesday, then driving me to school on Wednesday morning only to hear people on the radio talking about how outrageously offensive and crude the album was. My dad looked over at me and said, "your mother will know nothing of this."

 

I used to carefully peel the $15.99! hype stickers off the front cover and put it over the parental advisory when asking my mom to buy CD's for me. My mom almost didn't let me get Enema because of the cover but I assured her it was fine... she walked into my room a few days later while "Dysentery Gary" was on just in time for "Fuck this place, I lost the war/I hate you all, your mom's a whore" ...good times!

 

I was 9 in 2005 when the first breakup happened lol

 

I just drove to the store and bought the CD myself. Because I am old af.

Pretty sure I got Enema on the way home from school at the local Fred Meyer with a friend.

 

My brother and I picked up Neighborhoods from the store and then drove up o a mountain and listened to the whole thing for the first time. We didn't listen to any of the singles before it came out, other than the couple of songs they played when we saw them before the album was out. We weren't super stoked on a lot of the album, but we liked a few songs quite a bit. 10 years later, I feel about the same the same way haha.

 

I got Eve 6's Horrorscope when I was a kid and at one point my parents heard me listening to it and heard some explicit language. Due to that, my parents went out and bought me the edited version of the CD. My smart little brain realized that the CD itself was identical, with the only parental advisory being on the CD booklet. So of course, when they weren't looking, I found the explicit CD case, swapped out only the CD itself, and was back in business babyyyy

 

You're not alone

 

Just here to say that Neighborhoods came out on my 18th birthday, and now I'm 28, and that's fucked up. Was also my first album cycle as a fan because I got into them almost immediately after the first break up.

 

I grew up just downloading all my music from Youtube onto an iPod Shuffle so I never had to deal with parents being buzzkills

 

I hear you. It came out on my 25th birthday. FML.

 

For some strange reason my parents had issues with me having Adam Sandler CDs but no problem with my favorite band singing about fucking dogs in the ass or Grandpas. Life is weird sometimes.