purge in conversation — and goddess knows there’s plenty of that — is ‘purge’ and purge when purge is written is ‘purge.xxx’. whaahh-psssh!
QUANTITY & QUALITY
purge.xxx records are produced in limited quantities to a standard without parallel in the market of today, yesterday, tomorrow. this isn’t in the interests of scarcity: PR is a joke and surplus is sin and space evades us
REISSUES?
it isn’t right to describe any purge.xxx release as a “reissue”. Unless explicit the works we put out have never been released before, so they aren’t reissues, and because they haven’t had their time til now that makes them just as “new” as anything else. No difference between work created and released in 2023 as work created in 1973 and released in 2023. Both new. Time is the oldest ideological construct and blind faith in progress is partly the reason everything that isn’t purge.xxx is as bad as it is
POSTAGE & SCHEDULE
we don’t generally re-press and we have neither the resources nor interest to compensate for the great mysteries of courier services, so we have to ship tracked & signed. this is why some of those costs look high and higher still: until 2021 we straddled the line between the uk and the eu but this is obviously no longer possible. all of our operations will thus be moving to the eu over the course of the year. for this reason eu shipping has gone down and uk shipping has gone up. no other way. our payments system will soon switch entirely from £ to €. it’s also worth clarifying that not only do we not make money from shipping: we invariably lose money on it, if you’re considering packaging and TIME (we don’t). we charge the absolute minimum we can, appreciating how prohibitive these costs can be.
WE ARE NOT AMAZON. if you want that kind of expediency you are in the wrong place. if your record takes weeks to arrive then it takes weeks to arrive and by law (paha) our obligation is to deliver your purchase within three months. please reflect on purge.xxx for its spirit of generosity. this spirit of generosity separates and innoculates us from the so-called consumer rights/demands of the neoliberal regime we struggle to make our beautiful items under. we are not a brand and we are not a business and WE ARE NOT AMAZON
MATERIALS
we are in the process of phasing out the use of PVC in our packaging because however world-beating it is also evil and disgusting after a while. all other materials used both papers and plastics are recycled blahblah
DOWNLOADS
not really
STREAMING
no way
unless the artist has specifically requested for it to be so
TWITTER
we think twitter is hilarious and everyone and everything on it is useless. we never think about it, look at it, and barely even post on it when we have something to sell : twitter.com/purgetwit
INSTAGRAM
instagram is death but with all of the mystique stripped away and just the anxiety and the void [which means that it’s even more useless than twitter!!] … SIGN OUT SWITCH OFF AND RECOVER YOUR FANTASIES ... we only have an account to post bulletins on upcoming and current releases to help spread the word about the brilliant artists we represent WE DO NOT FOLLOW AND YOU SHOULD STOP FOLLOWING. REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS FRIENDS RATHER THAN FOLLOWERS? THEY WERE NOT YOUR FRIENDS BUT THAT DECEIT IS BETTER THAN THIS DYSTOPIAN CONSENSUAL HALLUCINATION OF REALITY WITH ITS FUCKING FOLLOWERS AND ITS BLACK BLACK BLACK MIRROR STOP STOP STOP - STOP FOLLOWING!!!!!!! - @purgeins
WEBSITE
it is shameful even to have a website. if this site doesn’t seem to be working properly first try a different browser, and if that doesn’t work try another browser, and then yet another and then . . . meh, go outside
COLLABORATORS lots of brilliant people are involved in the making of the purge.xxx records. we’ve also worked with MANY incompetent knobheads. information on both available on application
THE BRITISH LIBRARY the pre-vinyl archive of purge.xxx was purchased by the British Library in 2019; these releases are not available online and will never be reissued for sale and can probably only be heard there
THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
the Liberated Film Club was our semi-regular events arm AND ITS COMING BACK IN 2025 ACCEPT NO IMITATIONS : liberatedfilm.club
CONTACT
in the unlikely event that none of this covers your query please contact: mail(at)purge(dot)xxx (please don’t contact us under any circumstances if you use any kind of social media)
note: SATURDAY
SUNDAY even more serious than Saturday. if you contact us on a Sunday we will never respond, whether or not we see the message on another day, if it was sent on a Sunday we will never ever respond
DISCLAIMER none of the information herein necessarily reflects the opinions or attitudes of the artists we represent