Perusing local thrift stores, you come across a lot of local stuff that no one really knows about. I'm not talking about Everready or The Neighbors. More obscure. And a lot of the times you throw it on Discogs and it sells immediately for a ton of money, often from buyers overseas, and you're like whoa, what was that all about? It's happened many times to me. Userfriendly and Skipjack are two that come to mind. I don't know if this is more true in Southern California than other places, but it does seem to be a thing.
It hasn't happened regarding Arliss, but it might. I put a YouTube videos up a while back, and immediately got requests to upload the whole EP. I never did, thinking it might discourage someone from buying this very, very rare EP. I would direct them to the Discogs page. But years later, I still have it, so here's the whole thing.
Arliss was North County MySpacecore. I thought I just made that term up, but google says not so! I don't know what its supposed to mean, but for me it means 2000's garage emo / post-hardcore bands. And by garage, I don't mean scrappy DIYers. I mean garage as in, while they probably had visions of being the next big thing, they never quite made it out of the garage. Sounds like that's a slight. I don't mean it to be. But it's not like you've ever heard of Arliss (shitty HBO shows excluded), right?
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