Hello, we are Cold War Kids. I am Nathan, this is Maust.
We are at Amoeba and this is What's in My Bag.
Got some records. BADBADNOTGOOD. This is their newest one.
I wanted to have their saxophone player play on our record
and he was great but I couldn't pull it together.
It was too last minute. But I love this band.
And their show is so, so fun.
They're not being like, 'I don't know where I am right now.'
They're really into hyping the crowd.
It feels like a hip-hop show, y'know, with a jazz band, so I love them.
Got a Gun Club t-shirt
with all the song titles. 'Sex Beat.'
I love t-shirts more than anything.
I don't have a Gun Club... I have a homemade Gun Club t-shirt that I made, but I don't have an official one.
It's like the Elvis Presley and London Calling colors.
Yeah it's a salmon... green salmon color
So I got a gun club t-shirt now.
Here we have Nina Simone Four Women Phillips recordings
It's rad, it's all the Verve stuff.
There's a box set that has all the RCA ones that I have
and this is the era before that.
I'm very excited about this. Nina Simone is the greatest.
Yeah, there's so much good stuff on here already
'Sinnerman,' 'Strange Fruit'
'Pastel Blues.' This era is insane.
I still have just a CD player in my car.
so I love to buy CDs that can just
repeat, repeat, repeat, y'know, that it's not like, that's over next one
I just let it play, like those Trojan boxsets. Just let them go forever.
I should've looked for those out there, I didn't think of that.
I was showering this morning, thinking about those
and then I just forgot to look.
It looks like a snake skin.
Looks like a snake skin.
Yeah. It's pretty sexy.
It looks and feels like that. Ok.
I like 90s Interview magazines.
I remember wanting to subscribe to it in the 90s, and my parents wouldn't let me because it was too sexy.
But I got a February '91 exclusive, Al Pacino
this has got Madonna in here, it's got Betty Boop
there's some Marianne Faithfull pictures in here that are great
Pacino... hooahh
Interview has some of the best type treatments of stuff, it's very inspirational.
Oh man.
Armani ad that's great.
I'd put that on t-shirt right now, wear it out.
Next up: this is Jamie XX's record.
I wonder if this won any creative packaging.
It's called a die-cut.
Die-cut.
Kinda 3D, in your face.
I love this record. This is, y'know, in the electronica section.
Actually both of these are.
Probably the first two electronica LP's that I've bought.
The sounds that he uses are so the perfect blend of kind of modern and classic
and it's very restrained and very minimal.
And this speaks to the music, and vice-versa
in such a way where I can't hear this music without picturing this
and I think that's so nice.
That's the full experience. That's what you want.
I got a big Rolling Stones tongue.
That's the 'Rolling' Stones, right?
Yeah, Rolling Stones tongue.
Couldn't find any Rolling Stones t-shirts, but I have enough.
Yeah.
Next.
I should've gotten some, y'know, some badges. I probably have some things from a previous trip.
Yeah, I've bought a lot of badges here.
I bought this badge here once.
New Order badge here.
I like to hit the badge section up front, especially when I only have a minute to stop in.
There's some good reggae ones up there, some good King Tubby badges.
Used book: The Sisters Brothers.
Morris is waiting for us at a hotel in San Francisco.
It's a good place to kill someone, I have heard.
When they are not busily burning the entire town down
they're distracted by its endless rebuilding.
We were just talking about how the film is about to be made.
Who's starring in it, Maust?
Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal
Yeah.
It's a great book.
Depeche Mode Black Celebration tee.
I actually just bought a real vintage Black Celebration tee about a month ago
and this is the one that I can wear in the mosh pit.
Got a Smiths poster?
Oh yeah, I got a Smiths poster.
Good one.
Meat Is Murder.
Nothing wrong with a Smiths poster.
So you're a vegan.
Yeah. Please, please, please let me get what I want.
You just like the music.
Yeah let me get what I want.
Alright.
Well thank you very much guys.
Great, that was so easy.
When this store first opened in, what year, 2000? 2001?
2001.
I think we came opening day.
Yeah?
I know I did.
To come into Amoeba was the biggest deal in the world
If only to just look at things and get ideas and
think about what I would like to buy, y'know what I mean?
And getting exposed to things even just by looking at them
Yeah, it's like a museum.
Yeah.
We used to have to make trips to the Bay area.
Yeah.
And we still do that.
I took a trip to San Francisco and went to that Amoeba, and I bought
The White Stripes 'De Stijl' and The Walkmen first record,
and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's EP in one trip. And it's funny to me because
that's like the core of the rad, rad bands
from that time, that I feel like, when we came together talking about
what is new and good
that was it.
Thanks guys.
Yeah, thank you.