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ELV046:by the Microphones : 2xLP (: There is arelated manufacturing delay on this. It will be some number of weeks before it ships out. It will come, but it will just be delayed. This sentence will be updated when more accurate information is known.)

A new Microphones album consisting of one long song.

A big flopping of pictures is here.

Here is a poem about it:

The old smell of air

coming faintly through the spring

crack in the snow above a hibernating bear’s winter den,

the smell of long self-absorption,

burrowing into one’s own chest, re-breathing the exhales of one’s own breath,

the smell of squinting in the dark

ruminating in dreams

beneath layering years, the snow still falling.

In the dark smoldering

slowly burning through all the old clothes, sifting through the ash,

wiping old shedded fur from the eyes

nosing out into the light.

In that brief moment when the airs of the past and present meet,

at the mouth of the open bed,

egoic solidity burns away in the spring wind, self becomes fuel,

there is only now

and the past is a dream burning off.

Fragments arranged along the trail, crumbs consumed, dust blown,

no route back.

$25

OR: digital here



EPCD119: Microphones in 2020 by the Microphones : CD Japanese import

This is the only CD version of “Microphones in 2020”, from the world center of exquisite CD making: 7ep of Japan.

It’s slightly delayed, by a week or 2.

$23

to where? ship to U.S.A. $419.00 USD ship international $574.00 USD

To save 20%, buy this bundle. You get all the pictured things. Twenty albums, two singles, one book, one pin. (Since it contains the new one, it won’t ship until we have them, just before the release date of Aug. 7th, 2020.) ELV045:: LP

Eight new songs written in early 2019 about devotion and release. Julie graciously came back to the northwest and recorded this kind-of-sequel to the Lost Wisdom from 11 years ago. This one goes deeper. We recorded with the doors wide open and between breaths you can hear birds, jackhammering in the distance, and on some songs night air.

$22

OR: digital here



EPCD115/116: Lost Wisdom pts. 1 & 2 by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron : 2xCD Japanese import

A double CD set of both albums: “Lost Wisdom” from 2008 and “Lost Wisdom pt. 2” from 2019, manufactured with excellence as usual with the Japanese import CDs from 7ep.

$27



ELV042: 2 remixes of Mount Eerie by Wolves In The Throne Room : LIMITED PRESSING picture disk 7”

Two raw and unmixed songs from “Wind’s Poem” were transferred from the original analog tape masters into the ProTools HDX system at Owl Lodge. The studio is situated in the woods near Olympia, WA and is the headquarters of Wolves in the Throne Room (the best band in the world).

A single vocal track from “Lost Wisdom” was layered with newly recorded digital synths and a heavy bass from a vintage Korg MS-20. Wisps of the original organ and guitar appear in a heavily processed form.

“Mouth of Sky” was created using techniques inspired by Lee “Scratch” Perry. In this case, the original tracks were routed to a variety of analog and digital FX units via the faders on the studio’s Harrison PP1 console. The mix was performed in real time.

$11

OR: download here



ELV044: “(after)” : singing and guitar at Jacobikerk, Utrecht, Netherlands, Nov. 10th, 2017 at Le Guess Who? festival by Mount Eerie : 2xLP + download

This is a live album of songs from “A Crow Looked At Me” and “Now Only”, eleven songs recorded in a huge church on spare acoustic guitar and singing.

The jackets are the usual high-standard heavy gatefold beautiful ones, with copper foil stamping and multiple paper textures, great printing. This is an object worth owning, a concept which becomes more absurd in the context of the words of these songs.

release date: Sept. 21st, 2018

$25

OR: download here



ELV041: NOW ONLY by Mount Eerie : LP + download

release date: March 16th, 2018

A sequel or continuation down the path that began with “A Crow Looked At Me”. 6 word-filled songs about the raw strangeness of the present moment, waking up in wreckage, living with pervasive echoing real ghosts and a growing young child. Autobiographical.

$21

contains: 6 songs, 44 minutes, heavy old style gatefold tip-on jacket with special subtle blue paper on the inner liner sheet, all the lyrics, free download card

OR: download here



EPCD105: Now Only by Mount Eerie : Japanese import CD

Same as above but on a CD, packaged in a very nicely printed Japanese mini-LP jacket, with all the lyrics printed translated into Japanese. This is the only available CD version of this album in the world.

$20

ELV040: A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie : LP + download

A new Mount Eerie album unlike anything else in the Mount Eerie or Microphones back catalog. Eleven stark songs about basic deep grief, loss, real death, love, significance and non-significance, reality. Nothing wise or learned, just the described experience of living through unimaginable domestic obliteration, with names and dates.

contains: 11 songs, 42 minutes, very nice sounding vinyl, foil stamped front and back covers, heavy old style gatefold tip-on jacket with special Neenah “Slide” paper as the inner liner, silver on black, all the lyrics, double sided art poster, free download card

$21

OR: download here



EPCD101: A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie : Japanese import CD

Same as above but on a CD, packaged in a very nicely printed Japanese mini-LP jacket, with all the lyrics printed translated into Japanese. This is the only available CD version of this album in the world.

$20

ELV038: Lost Wisdom by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire

Julie and Fred stopped in Anacortes for a couple days in 2008, musicians passing through, and recorded these quick and pretty versions of acoustic Mount Eerie songs in a small wooden room on the 3rd floor of an old old building. The voices harmonize and meld well in the room itself before even finding the microphone. Straightforward and powerful.

$21

ten songs, white vinyl LP, heavy old style jacket, full color double sided jumbo poster on heavy uncoated stock, 34 1/2” × 23”, download card

OR: download here



ELV037: No Flashlight by Mount Eerie : LP+download

This, the first album by Mount Eerie, was originally released 10 years ago as “ELV005” in 2005. The packaging and rhetoric was oversized. Now after many years out of print the album has been re-mixed, clarified, re-mastered, and re-pressed, in re-designed jackets. The songs stand on their own, accompanied by just a few photos of life back then, in the small wooden room where it was recorded and on the twilight vista where the songs were dreamt. They sound way better now. Also, white vinyl!

Fifteen songs, 37:13 total, one white vinyl LP, heavy old-style gatefold jackets with spot UV varnish, download card

$21

OR: download here



FLASHLIGHT

$18

epcd027:(Japanese import) by Mount Eerie : CD

This first “real” album by Mount Eerie is currently only physically available in the form of this Japanese import CD which also features 4 bonus tracks. Originally released in the fall of 2005, it is made of mostly acoustic sounds, cardboard bass drum thumps, water bottle hand drums, and small wooden rooms. It features such “hits” as “No Flashlight”, “How?”, “the Air In The Morning”, and “No Flashlight”. An LP repress is unlikely in the foreseeable future so use your chance now to get this nice digipak Japanese CD version.

or: download here



ELV036: Sauna by Mount Eerie : 2xLP+download

PRESS

RELEASE

: The sauna that this album was inspired by is not a sauna that actually exists anywhere. It is about the idea of a small man-made wooden room crushed beneath a universe’s worth of bad weather; a concentration of extreme heat within a vast tough world. Inside this deliberate space a transformation occurs. The exaggerated atmosphere of flames, steam, smoke and dim light obliterate the usual sensations and new kinds of perception are exposed. Then the shocking plunge under cold water and the razor sword through sky.

This is the same transformative potential of music, at least the kind of music that Mount Eerie has been attempting for the past few years. Carefully built worlds of sound and sensation, large weights and clear ideas, depth shown through simple moments. The singer is standing on the street in the rain, considering whether she hears a tractor idling or maybe an ancient memory of a mammoth tearing through brush. The view through the big windows at the airport in 2014.

Sauna is described as an “ultimate” Mount Eerie album, and something about it does feel final, or perhaps the beginning of something new and big. The songs narrow these ideas to tight moments, a honed thesis.

The compositions are complicated and grown-up, the instrumentation is gnarly and big, the pictures are painted bright. Recorded fully analog on 24 tracks at the Unknown (the reclaimed old wood church in Anacortes, Washington), this is certainly the most “hi-fi” Mount Eerie album ever made, while still sounding as raw as low tide in November. Phil Elverum is joined by singers Allyson Foster and Ashley Eriksson, cutting through the jet noise roar of the music with clear harmonic counterpoints.

Gongs flange, distorted bass arches its back, organs blanket the room, the piano is half-swallowed. Are those drums or lumber? Flutes or laughter? Actual audible steam hangs in the branches.

Twelve songs, 55 minutes total, inhabiting two high resolution 45rpm LPs, super-pretty heavy old-style gatefold jackets, jumbo poster, download card… the works.

$25

OR: download here



EPCD084: Sauna by Mount Eerie : Japanese import CD

$21

Same music as the 2xLP, but on a CD. As always, the best printing in the world happens in Japan. This CD and bilingual lyric booklet (with photos) come in a beautiful miniature gatefold LP jacket containing all the original art from the LP version, just tiny. There’s also a nice little obi strip. If you have a CD collection this is probably worth your drool.

Released by 7 e.p., and if you order from them you get a free download of the 4 bonus tracks. (Order from us and you don’t get that free download.)

ELV034: Pre-Human Ideas by Mount Eerie : LP+download

$19

overtly recorded on a computer (as opposed to the customary extreme 100% analog style)

pretty weird human portrait on the cover (as opposed to a non-personal place-focus)

totally synthetic voices, digitally garbled (as opposed to legible and literate human tones)

no new songs (as opposed to the perception that Mount Eerie is “prolific”)

there is no such thing as a difference between “nature” and “not nature”, it is all wild

This is an unusual release for Mount Eerie for many reasons. Here are some of them:

These are strange computer recordings of pre-existing Mount Eerie songs, mostly from Clear Moon and Ocean Roar (2012), made post-album-release as exploratory and instructional demos to teach the songs to various touring bands. What’s new here are the added layers of severely pitch shifted and autotuned voices singing newly written lyrics, almost like new songs layered over the old ones, expanding and clarifying the ideas. These songs keep growing, and here they are given new life in cascading walls of MIDI instruments with a voice digitally posing as a hoarse woman or a rough older man. These are strange tones. An alien wonder enters the room.

Note: the first and last tracks are organ compositions previously buried within other songs, totally analog, totally rich, made audible here as complete and penetrable pieces of music.

OR: download here



XRA043: Live In Bloomington, Sept. 30th, 2011 by Mount Eerie : LP

$15

This is an LP of a high quality recording of a Mount Eerie show that happened in the fall of 2011 when we were on our way to open for the band Earth for some shows in The South. It was an unusual version of the band, consisting of 2 keyboard players (NK and JC) and minimal over-reverbed twang guitar, plus singers. It’s very keyboardy and has no drums, which is nice. The Bloomington show was held at Russian Recording, a straight up recording studio, so we were lucky to have the show documented by the experts that know what they’re doing. This LP was released by XRA Records, we are merely distributing it.

OR: download here

ELV043: Clear Moon/Ocean Roar by Mount Eerie : 2xLP + download

Clear Moon and Ocean Roar were released as 2 separate but related records in 2012. Now they are re-released in new double gatefold jacket with abundant multi-colored foil stamping and clear and black vinyl and a new big poster. The music is the same as before.

$26

OR: download here and here



EPCD066/7: Clear Moon/Ocean Roar by Mount Eerie : 2xCD Japanese import

$28

From 7 e.p. in Japan comes the only CD release in the world of either of these albums. Packaged in a super elegant mini-gatefold LP style including a beautiful lyric booklet with pictures and bilingual lyrics. 2 CDs in their own careful inner sleeves. Obi strip. The whole fancy Japanese packaging celebration.

ELV027: Clear Moon/Ocean Roar (condensed versions) by Mount Eerie : 7”

$5

What is this? It is simple. Side A is all the songs from Clear Moon played at the same time on top of each other. Side B is all the songs from Ocean Roar played at the same time on top of each other. No further explanation necessary.

OR: download here



ELV022: Song Islands vol. 2 by Mount Eerie : 2xLP+download

$23

31 songs, 80 minutes, 2 LPs, white vinyl, letterpressed obi band, singles and rarities compilation released in 2010.

OR: download here

ELV020: Wind’s Poem by Mount Eerie : 2xLP+download

$23

Wind’s Poem contains the densest sound so far on any Mount Eerie album. Some songs are maximal. Others less. It is a long album that drifts through atmospheres, “black metal” some people have thought, “twin peaks” others have thought, looking at the lights of town through the trees on the walk home in the evening and thinking “what is that dream world to me?”

Here is a music video for the song “Mouth Of Sky”.

It’s pretty long. 12 songs. Fancy copper foil stamped heavy gatefold jackets. Full color lyrics poster.

OR: download here

ELV017: Dawn by Mount Eerie : LP+download

$21

Dawn is finally back in print after many years of absence. The songs were written in 2002 mostly while traveling alone through the United States and Europe and especially while spending the winter of 2002/2003 alone in a cabin in Kjerringøy, Norway, but these recordings didn’t happen until years later when they were recorded simply, quickly in one sitting, just acoustic guitar and singing, and released as an LP and also as a (now out of print) book/CD of journal entries from that cold winter.

For this current edition, the entire text of the Dawn book has been squeezed onto a massive folded double sided poster and included in the record jacket, along with a download card and a pretty white vinyl LP.

OR: download here



ELV046: Microphones in 2020 by the Microphones : 2xLP (shipping is a little delayed but they’ll go out in a week or 2)

A new Microphones album consisting of one long song.

Here is an advertisement video,

or set a reminder to join the screening of the full video on Aug. 6th at 10am PST.

$25

OR: digital here





BUNDLE: ALL SEVEN MICROPHONES ALBUMS

ELV046: Microphones in 2020 by the Microphones : 2xLP

ELV032: Mount Eerie by the Microphones : LP+download

ELV031: the Glow pt. 2 by the Microphones : 2xLP+download

ELV030: Song Islands by the Microphones : 2xLP+download

ELV029: It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water by the Microphones : LP+download

ELV028: Don’t Wake Me Up by the Microphones : LP+download

ELV039: Early Tapes, 1996-1998 by the Microphones : LP+download

$133

This is all of the Microphones albums. Save a little money by buying them all.

(This is a “buy it now” button because it must ship alone because of the size.)

ELV039: EARLY TAPES, 1996 – 1998 by the Microphones : LP + download

This is an LP release of some songs that were recorded before all the other Microphones stuff. There were a few rough and uncommon tapes released back then. This LP collects the best parts of those tapes. It includes a poster with notes and reflections and context and lyrics and photos from the archives. A new (old) Microphones album out of nowhere!

$19

contains: 16 songs, 40+ minutes, expensively pressed vinyl, heavy old style jacket, three foot long poster double sided lyrics/notes poster, download cardOR: download here

ELV032: Mount Eerie by the Microphones : LP+download

$21

This was originally put out in 2003 by K. This is the fifth and final release in our ongoing Microphones reissue series. Click on the picture to see a display showing what the package looks like. This comes with a big long poster depicting the “story” of the album (previously unseen). The jackets on this one are pretty classy. Rich duotone greyscale images printed on textured bone colored stock, wrapped over old style heavy jackets.

OR: download here

ELV031: the Glow pt. 2 by the Microphones : 2xLP+download

$25

This was originally put out in 2001 by K. It is well known. This is number 4 in our ongoing Microphones reissue series.

This current edition is a repress and no longer includes the translucent “obi strip” along the spine.





OR: download here

EPCD100:by the Microphones : Japanese import CD

Currently the only CD version of “the Glow pt. 2” available in the world, released in Japan by 7 e.p. on April 15th, 2017. Very nice Japanese packaging.

$20

ELV030: Song Islands by the Microphones : 2xLP+download

$23

This first vinyl appearance of the singles/rarities collection from 2002 kicks of the series of reissues of all 5 Microphones albums we’re putting out throughout 2013. These songs are islands, unrelated to any “real” albums, created between 1997 and 2002, mostly in/of Olympia, Wash., and collected on CD by K. There are some songs that are well known and some songs that are super weird moments in the studio, less well-known. A broad archipelago.

This version has been remastered by John Golden and all polished and made sturdy. It includes a new fold out explanatory poster sheet thing, a download card, heavy old-style gatefold jackets, and a foil stamped obi strip. It feels good in the hand. You are invited to purchase one or more.

ELV029: It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water by the Microphones : LP+download

$21

First released in the year 2000 by K, this is the 2nd Microphones album and has been out of print on vinyl for many years. Now it is back and fancy. This is number 3 in our ongoing Microphones reissue series.

ELV028: Don’t Wake Me Up by the Microphones : LP+download

$21

This first official album by the Microphones was originally released in 1999 by K and has been out of print on vinyl for many years. Now finally it’s available again in this very satisfying heavy form. Dreams and distortion and radio interference and weird grey dust.





by the way:anyways:In the spring of 2020 there is a new Microphones band shirt consisting of a notebook page of scrawled illegible ideas that a kid has drawn figures over the top of. It’s about layers of time and idea churning and returning forever. There’s no end.These are printed on 100% cotton Gildan 5000 shirts. Here is the size chart.

sizes SMALL MEDIUM LARGE X LARGE $20





ELV038 poster: Lost Wisdom poster #2

This poster is a slightly modified version of the original poster that doubled as the album cover, just folded up and wrapped around the vinyl, Crass style. The new version includes a legitimate LP jacket (a nice one) and also this jumbo double sided poster. We are offering this poster for sale by itself for anyone who might want a spare copy to use for scrapbooking or wrapping seafood. One side has the same photo of a clearcut from last time, but now with the album’s lyrics floating tiny in the fog. The other side is a similar image to the big flaming house painting, but here it is upgraded to a color photograph. It will arrive rolled in a tube, but be warned: it has been gently scored for folding so it is not perfectly flat.

$5.75

Full color, double sided poster on heavy uncoated stock, 34 1/2” × 23”

ELV033: DUST by Phil Elverum : 132 pg. hardcover book (plus 48 pg. booklet)

$38

DUST is an “art book” of new photographs by Phil Elverum. There are no words. There is no narrative. These are clear images of a world in color, moments of depth and eeriness found on solitary walks and international drives. The images were made at home (Anacortes, Wash.) and all over the world (in the quiet moments found during Mount Eerie tours), but the where is not the point. The point is the breath of the unknown that a strange new image can breathe from a page if one sits still and looks at it.

They are arranged in pairs, the page spreads building a crucial interplay that creates a third, invisible, internal world as one looks, prompting a wordless conversation between the two images and the viewer. Pairs of rich and mysterious photographs, beautifully printed and bound in black stamped coarse linen. Inside the back cover is a secondary booklet containing 48 photographs.



ELV035: HALF-EATEN GUITAR by Wyrd Visions : LP+download

$15

P.W. Elverum & Sun is seriously thrilled to announce the release of the long lost artifact known as “HALF-EATEN GUITAR”, the only full album ever recorded by the Swedish-Canadian musician/sorcerer known as WYRD VISIONS (also known as Colin Bergh of Toronto).

This record seemingly emerged from a northern bog in 2006 and has dominated our attention ever since. Meanwhile the first pressing quickly sold out (by Blue Fog Recordings of Toronto) and the rest of North America somehow lived on undisturbed. Finally P.W. Elverum & Sun is bringing a new pressing into existence, newly mastered, freshly designed with embossed jackets and fancy printed sleeves and a free download.

These recordings are truly eerie. If one were to imagine the music of a pagan Nordic culture, surrounded by stone and birch, taking cues from a broad grey sky, building a boat by candlelight, creating ceremonies from scratch… this would be that music. This is ancient and northern music, undistracted by the icons that divert orthodox black metal into corniness, unconcerned with adolescent ideas of authenticity. The actual spirit of the mythical northern mental landscape, the bog in mid-winter, has never been captured more perfectly than this.

Stark instrumentation and intricate playing create a thick world, a window into a very real ceremony: A single drum. A breathing reed organ. A voice. A wooden guitar being digested and transformed into a message written across the night sky.

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CHEAP

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REASON

$10

Key Losers is a band based in Portland, Oregon, whose songwriter, singer, guitarist, and only constant member is Katy Davidson. Davidson once led the band Dear Nora, which disbanded in 2008. California Lite is Key Losers’ first official full-length album, though Key Losers did release a 9-song “mini-album” called Adjust on States Rights Records in early 2010. Key Losers is a band that may be characterized by its concept-driven lyrics and melody-driven music.

Davidson recruited an all-star band to perform as Key Losers for this album. This band should be referred to as “Key Losers Black Crow Session Band” (in alphabetical order): Karl Blau (K Records) – saxophone / Greg Campanile (Total Noise) – percussion / Andrew Dorsett (LAKE / K Records) – bass and vocals / Tom Filardo (Total Noise) – lead guitar and vocals / Nick Krgovich (No Kids / Tomlab) – keyboards and vocals / Eli Moore (LAKE / K Records) – vocals / Davidson played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals. Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) engineered this album in Anacortes, Washington, during late 2010 and early 2011 on all analog equipment, almost completely live, with only minimal overdubbing.

MORE: Katy’s mini-essay

AND: OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

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LOW

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BASICALLY

FREE

$3.50

$9

ELV024:(7”+download) by Nicholas Krgovich side A: “It Never Was You” side B: “It Never Was You (a cappella)” This song is a hit! It was stuck in everyone’s heads here at the warehouse for literally 6 months so we had to insist on releasing it. We will be distributing the single to all the jukeboxes across the country and soon it will be everywhere, this strange new/old music singing of mistaken identity, a moment on the sidewalk, checking the look in the reflective sign on the luxury store facade. ELV020:(CD) by Mount Eerie

Special heavy gatefold “mini-LP” CD jackets with bronze foil stamping, 36 inch double sided lyrics poster, definitely too nice of a CD to cost $9, but here you go.

$4

$10

GRIS

$5

$5

$5

KCD142:by the Microphones : CDJust the isolated drums tracks from the album “Mount Eerie”, intended for sampling, but not really. Also featuring the extended big bounce version of “Kind Dark Death”‘s party music. (Released by K .) TAUS003: “” by Ô Paon : CDCD version of the excellent album described above.ELV009 “” by Woelv : CDCD version of the excellent e.p. described above.KLP172 (C.D.): “” by Woelv : CDThis is the CD version of the epic book/record that K released in Dec. 2007. It comes with an awesome booklet of some of the artwork.MAR047 “” : CDA collaboration between The Watery Graves of Portland ( Marriage dudes) and Geneviève



“HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?”:

We don’t send out any kind of receipt or notification so don’t be alarmed when you don’t hear from us after ordering. We got your order and it’ll come.

Domestic orders are shipped via Media Mail which takes a maximum of 8 business days.

International orders are between 1 and 5 weeks usually.

There is no tracking for regular domestic shipments, and international shipments can only be tracked until the package leaves the US.

Mail orders are acceptable too. Nobody ever does this. The mailing address is everywhere.

If you want to mail a check rather than use your card please email “orders at pwelverumandsun dot com” and we’ll tell you the total with shipping.

NOTE: If you are pre-ordering something and you include other items with the same purchase, we’ll default to holding the whole lot and shipping it all together when the pre-order is getting released. If you are pre-ordering and you need other things more immediately, it’s better to make a second order.

“HOW MUCH IS SHIPPING?”

It gets calculated by Paypal once you add an item to your cart and enter your location. You will be able to see the shipping cost before actually paying.

“IS THAT REALLY THE PRICE OF SHIPPING INTERNATIONALLY?”

Yes. International postage is very expensive. Sorry. We are doing it the cheapest possible way.

Also, shipping is calculated by weight and Paypal only allows for a few broad weight categories, so sometimes you’ll end up paying slightly more, and sometimes slightly less than the actual cost. Sometimes we lose money! In general, you get a better deal if you order more things.

“IS THERE ANYWHERE OUTSIDE THE US TO BUY THIS STUFF?”

Yes. Here is a list of stores that often stock our releases.

WHY ARE SOME CARTS “BUY IT NOW” AND SOME ARE “ADD TO CART”?: Most of the purchase buttons in this store are “add to cart” but some are “buy it now”. These are for items that must be shipped alone, made necessary by their unusual shape (posters). So, if you’re trying to buy a poster and a record for example, you’ll need to make 2 separate payments so that the shipping will get recalculated each time. All the “add to cart” button items can be combined and you can save on shipping. Cool?

CONTACT:

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box 1561

Anacortes, Wash.

U.S.A. 98221

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