On Tony Rettman and Killed By Hardcore (Part Two)
Maintaining an assessment of the market place in positive terms, whoever’s behind dispensing the Killed By Hardcore compilations understands that culling a product, perhaps meant to tug at old dude’s heartstring’s, isn’t a bad idea. And while the impetus for such a project – no doubt gaining rights to some of this material in addition to figuring out the pressing and distribution of it all can be a bummer – stems from a love of the music, making a buck isn’t usually a bad idea.
But if these compilations didn’t exist, we’d either not have this music to listen to at all, or be necessitated to shell out some ridiculous prices to hear it. Rettman gets all that and spits it out in bits and pieces. More importantly, though, he’s got some historical (and personal) sense of the music.
