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Love for Sale: Taking Stock in Our Pride

by Terre Thaemlitz

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From the original accompanying essay (included as PDF):

"'Love For Sale: Taking Stock In Our Pride,' by Terre Thaemlitz, is the first installement of the Mille Plateaux Queer Media Series. A portion of the proceeds from each record sold will go to support the artists involved. Coming soon, 'La Cage à Faux: Gaffng Sexuality In The Works Of John Cage.'"

Chances are that several people, Queer and Straight, did not purchase this album due to its openly-advertised Queer content. Some long-term fans, Queer and Straight, may be getting tired of my insistence upon overt Queer thematics. Others are undoubtedly listening to my music for the first time simply based on the cover's pronouncement of such content. Still others are less interested in myself than Mille Plateaux's promise of a Queer Media Series. There is no such series. It is a fictional ploy intended to incite a market based response prior to actually hearing this CD. A response that may include feelings of empowerment, embarrassment, and/or indifference. A response that is no more resolved by the act of purchase than by finding this entire project may be a hoax - after all, doesn't an admission to the deliberate use of Queer imagery as a marketing ploy amount to an invalidation of any 'radical consumption'? Is there such a thing as radical consumption in the first place? A music industry convinced that it can Rock Tibet to freedom would surely like us to think so. In fact, it's literally banking on it. Even a secret part of myself would like to think so. If a boycott can enact financial strain to gain political leverage, why not envision a grrlcott capable of triggering enormous prosperity and growth? In terms of a Queer politic revolving around Ribbon campaigns and benefit CDs, how did we come to measure our progress in terms of dollars and cents while increasingly distancing ourselves from localized means of implementing such funds, self-determined means for which we fought so fervently in the late '80s and early '90s?

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released October 1, 1999

Originally released under license from Comatonse Recordings in 1999 as a CD (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1999) MP58. Contracts have since expired and all rights reverted. Recorded at Meow, New York. Produced, mixed and arranged by T. Thaemlitz (BMI). Design by Terre.

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