various artists - Live At The Knitting Factory, Volume One

I picked this up the other day for the following reasons:

• It was $2, and I already had a $2 CD in my hand. I feel weird spending less than $5.
• The Knitting Factory was, in my adolescence, this magic place where the cutting edge of music played every night.
• I saw Tom Cora played on a couple tracks. Tom Cora made some records with the Ex.

It turned out, this was a pretty good snag. The first of five volumes of live cuts from the NYC venue released by A&M Records, this one captures performances from the winter of '88-'89. I dig it.

Boring-ass cover on the US releases, tho.

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