Longtime Melvins fan Dana Garcia reports the band’s massive catalog appears to have come to life and is multiplying in her living room.
“I came in and there were some records on the floor. I thought maybe there was a small earthquake or someone broke in or something, but then I looked around and nothing else in the house had moved an inch,” Garcia said. “So I picked them up and found they were all Melvins records. I went to put them back and noticed there were new ones. Not new to me, but records that didn’t exist before last month.”
As strange as it sounds, other devotees of the band were not skeptical of the news. There seemed to be suspicion that something of the sort had been happening before the events at Garcia’s home.
“I mean I wasn’t sure and I didn’t have any evidence but I kinda thought so,” PJ Danforth said. “A few times over the years I’d be organizing my record collection and come across a Melvins album I didn’t recognize and had no recollection of buying. It’d be like ‘whoa, what’s this,’ but what do you do? I just filed it away and moved on ya know?”
Despite an initial freak out, Garcia and Danforth say the Melvins catalogue does not appear to be hostile. Aside from occasionally spilling onto the floor in an unruly fit of expansion, the albums seem to be happy to coexist peacefully in her home.
“I wouldn’t say it volunteers to do the dishes or anything, but it definitely doesn’t empty my fridge like some people I’ve lived with. When you think about it, this whole thing makes sense though, they have over 20 albums and a bunch of EPs. Who does that? A record collection that has a mind of its own, obviously.”
