{"product_id":"mccarthy-i-am-a-wallet-vinyl","title":"McCarthy: I Am A Wallet (Coloured Vinyl 2xLP + 7\")","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"full\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rvo2pWnqpwM?si=EDMXmezdi_k8YRX8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis limited edition double album set contains the original LP plus 13 bonus tracks taken from their first four singles. Pressed on red vinyl. By the time McCarthy appeared on the NME's C86 cassette they had already been playing together for a couple of years and released two excellent singles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir debut 'In Purgatory' and the indie masterpiece 'Red Sleeping Beauty' (both included on this release). The following year McCarthy released the brilliant 'Frans Hals' before unleashing their debut album \u003cem\u003eI Am A Wallet\u003c\/em\u003e. Now recognised as an indiepop masterpiece, it has gone on to achieve cult status, receiving praise from the likes of Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) as one of the most important albums of the 80s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown by today's indie acolytes as the band that spawned Tim Gane and Leititia Sadier (who of course went on to form Stereolab). It's a seamless album reminiscent of the Byrds. Wonderful, if slightly twee, jangly guitars with complex and rarely rhyming lyrics, Malcolm Eden's strident left wing political views are manifest on \u003cem\u003eI Am A Wallet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCloaked in pretty guitar and propulsive drums, Eden sets about attacking the pillars of the day, MPs, Prince Charles, Fleet Street, religion, the response to AIDS and on almost every song capitalism. The horrors and inequalities of the capitalist system are laid bare for all the see. The system which enables some to get rich at the expense of others is reviled and attacked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn MP Speaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonetaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe International Narcotics Traffic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Way Of The World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntinature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Windsor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Vision Of Peregrine Worsthorne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Well Of Loneliness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Wicked Palace Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod Made The Virus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Funeral\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Child Soon In Chains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn The Dark Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Procession Of Popular Capitalism\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Purgatory\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComrade Era\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomething Wrong Somewhere\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Sleeping Beauty\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom The Damned\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor The Fat Lady\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrans Hals\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKill Kill Kill Kill\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou're Alive\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBad Dreams\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomeone Worse Off\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntiamericancretin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnfortunately\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Purgatory (Bonus 7\" Single)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Comrade Era (Bonus 7\" Single)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomething Wrong Somewhere (Bonus 7\" Single)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Optic Nerve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":3134697275416,"sku":"OPT4015","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/mccarthy-i-am-wallet.jpg?v=1753431715","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/mccarthy-i-am-a-wallet-vinyl","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}