It seems almost Make Believe that anyone would want to buy Weezer’s third, fourth, fifth, and sixth albums on vinyl, just to add a little bit of warmth to the progressively insufferable songs of Rivers Cuomo. Yet on October 28, Geffen will give whatever Weezer diehards remain the opportunity to do just that, a perhaps Maladroit attempt to milk these fans’ nostalgia for a simpler time, when the band’s nosedive further and further into kitsch was something of a shock instead of just old news.
The reissue also includes the first of Weezer’s four (and counting?) self-titled albums and Pinkerton, so if you find yourself stuck in a nostalgia loop, yearning to re-live that first time you sung along to “El Scorcho” on the bus ride home from middle school, maybe giving one of the records a spin on newly-pressed wax will remind you that you already killed all of these songs 15 years ago and get you out.
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