Your Words, Bought and Sold, by The Sick Passengers

Your Words, Bought and Sold

by The Sick Passengers

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1.	If On a Winter's Night 04:00	download
2.	Kickstand 03:06	download
3.	TV Ads for Paxil 05:24	download
4.	Your Patience Bores Me 04:29	buy track
5.	Better That She Knows 05:49	buy track
6.	Iron Horse 03:28	download
7.	Nancy Drew 05:35	download
8.	All the Ex-Boyfriends Love Nick Drake 04:40	download
9.	Descending 02:45	download
10.	The Hitch 04:21	download

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"Your Words, Bought and Sold" is marked by a mature, high-energy blast of quality songwriting, muscular and skronky guitar riffs, catchy vocal harmonies, and off-kilter rhythms. Lyrically, the songs display a thoughtful, self-aware take on personal quandaries, generational malaise, bad governance, and the novels of Italo Calvino.

"We had no idea improvising tuba jockey Chris Meeder played guitar and sang in a rock band; what's more, he and his fellow Sick Passengers are quite a good rock band, borrowing tricks from Hüsker Dü, Gang of Four and other great indie heroes without sounding slavish. The band's new EP Iron Horse [included on this Bandcamp album] is filled with terse guitars, rich vocal harmonies and quirky rhythmic turns; we were disappointed it was over so quickly, so we just played it again."
— Time Out New York

"Not since Regretfully Yours has there been a more assured power-pop debut than Your Words, Bought and Sold. The songwriting is clever and unpretentious. And the hooks are irresistible."
— Lost at Sea Magazine

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released July 7, 2004

Recorded May-October 2003 at the Pigeon Club, Hoboken, and the Fort, Bushwick. Recording, processing, mixing, and mastering by James Bentley. Dave Roman assisted with recording and engineering, and sat in on theremin.

On this recording the Sick Passengers were Bill Kennedy, Mark Ladov, Christopher Meeder, and Chris Williams. Later, Jason Das was on board.

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The Sick Passengers New York, New York

The Sick Passengers were a New York City-based post-punk rock band that was active from 2000 until 2005. They cranked out speedy, noisy, but tuneful songs inspired by the cream of American independent rock music in the late 80s and early 90s, performing regularly at clubs across the city. These albums are an archive of their recorded output. ... more

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