The Misfits Static Age Album Art
In the mid 90’s Misfits albums were hard to come by out in the wilds of Aurora, Colorado. We had precious few records stores and of those only one or two carried an extensive selection of punk and or metal, or anything that wasn’t current radio hits.
So, for a teenaged punk rocker, the first thing to do at the record store when I had scrounged up enough money was to scour through the CDs looking for any new punk gems I could get my grubby little, spiked bracelet-ed mitts on.
When I came across the Misfits section at Media Play, a long defunct store that sold literally everything a teenager could want in the 90s IE: ugly band shirts, CDs of all genres, knock-off musical equipment, and insanely over-priced, half hour VHS tapes of excessively violent anime shows, I couldn’t believe that one, there was a Misfits section, and two, it had a Misfits CD in it I hadn’t seen before.
Static Age didn’t look like what I knew of the Misfits, which was essentially at that point, devilock hairdos and the iconic Crimson Ghost plastered across everything.
This was different. They looked like pimply-faced goober teenagers, and the song titles were all weird, yet there was “Last Caress” my favorite song from the only other Misfits CD I owned, Collection II.
I snagged that shit up, went straight home and loaded that disc up. Holy shit, these songs were even better than Collection II. “Hybrid Moments” hit my ears and it hasn’t left in fucking 26 years.
This album also hit me at the same time I was learning how to play guitar and when I learned the 7 note, 4 second solo in "Some Kind of Hate" I felt like Eddie Fucking Van Halen. There would be no stopping me now.