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So the guys decide they want to tour. The best way to get shows is to put something out. Seeing as the difference in price between printing up a single and an LP is negligible they opt for an LP. So songs are spewed forth and a studio found - Bill Day in his garage just north of SD. The first album, "Of Thick Tum", is recorded in a couple days in march of '92. This is where the 2nd and 3rd albums, "Spasm Smash XXXOXoxox ox & Ass" and "Godspeed the Punchline" would be recorded as well. Glen manages to get hundreds of crappy albums from Off the Record in SD. The store couldn't sell them and they were taking up space. So now they don't have to buy sleeves. So while the vinyl is being printed up the boys begin transforming the old sleeves into dazzling trumans product. This is done by means of spray paint, glue, photocopies and lots of crayons. Of course, there were piles of old vinyl all over the house from the emptied sleeves. These would be used for hallway battles. This consisted of two opponents, placed at either end of a long hallway, flinging records at each other. The best tactic was to use one vinyl as a shield in one hand while flinging away with the other hand. Many a knee would be split. The sparkling new sleeves would be filled with whatever weird things would fit: X-rays, pages from Glen's military manuals, photos, strange fliers, kevin's dreadlocks... The first fifty handmade albums are sent to Cargo records in SD for distribution. Somehow, a guy at Cargo has the brilliant idea to send a few of them to Cargo in the UK. Then someone in Cargo Uk sends one to John Peel. John Peel, after a long day at home listening to tons of albums decides to put one last album on before going to sleep. It's Of Thick Tum. He loves it. He promptly plays it in its entirety on his next radio show and decides to call the boys for a live phone interview as well. Trumans has no idea what this will mean...
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