Unofficial Channels; and Two pictures of Spock smashing an old woman in the face.

I'm sure no one remembers when I made a brief mention of the November '08 cover story in Wire Magazine called Unofficial Channels. It was a big deal for me. It was the first time I'd seen a publication talk about the type of music I had been becoming interested in, and the unusual methods of distribution that the music undergoes to reach listeners with these particular curiosities and inclinations. Well... I photocopied the article at work. All 14 pages of it. And carried the sheaf of papers around in my bag for months afterward. And mentioned it here while I was on winter break from school, promising that as soon as I got back to school and had access to a flatbed scanner that I would make it available to you, my readers.

I am sitting in front of a scanner right now, friends.

For those that are curious about such things, it was scanned in 16 bit grayscale at 100% into jpegs at 300 dpi, as 72 dpi looked liked shit at full size, and weren't really going to cut it. The jpegs, unfortunately, were unreadable and huge at full size, so I saved them all as png-8s at 50%.

So... yup. That's how much I love my readers, and want to make their reading experience as smooth and painless as possible while reading picture files of scans of photocopies from a magazine.

Unofficial Channels indeed. Read it in your browser below, or if anyone requests I can upload a zip with the high res versions, perfect for printing out and carrying around in your bag for six months or so as I did.