TIN012: Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut -Vinyl Only (1996)
We were excited for the opportunity to release the vinyl version of Hum's major label debut. Unfortunately there were problems with the mastering and then the cover art was left unfinished for a few months. It wound up coming out a long time after the CD. We discovered that not many people buy vinyl and those who do expect to buy it before or on the day the CD comes out. There was a poster included and some copies were pressed on clear, green vinyl.

TIN012/13 - SalarymanTIN012: Salaryman - Salaryman (1997)
OK. It's not a typo. Well, I guess it's a typo but it's a nine year old typo. The numbering system for a record label is very important. We neglected to check the spine number on the Hum vinyl (TIN012) and wound up assigning the same number to this CD when it came out. Maybe subliminally we were trying to avoid putting out record 13. This was the beginning of a new era for Twelve Inch. We decided that we should spend all our free time as musicians, not as music businessmen/women and only release recordings we had made ourselves. Salaryman started as a lark. Jenny Toomey asked Poster Children to back her up for a show but to do something "different". We pulled out some synthesizers, learned her songs and then improvised a set of our own instrumentals over the course of a few days. On the way to the show we decided we needed a different name from Poster Children so Rose suggested Salaryman. People seemed to like the show so we went back to our rehearsal space and recorded everything very quickly and put it out with Parasol's help. We didn't expect much from the CD but Christof from the German label CitySlang heard the disc, liked it and put it out in Europe. We wound being lumped into the "post-rock" scene and did a lot of touring overseas.

TIN014: Salaryman - Karoshi (1999)
Karoshi is a Japanese word that means "death from overwork". For some reason we thought that was funny. Recorded by Mark Rubel at Pogo and mixed at home. This one's got a lot of Enhanced CD content that may or may not work with post-Y2K computers.

TIN015: Poster Children - Flower Plower Reissue (2000)
The first Poster Children album originally released on Limited Potential Records in 1989. One of the few records of ours that we own the rights to. A majority of the rest are owned by Warner Brothers in perpetuity (which means forever).

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