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  • Limited Edition Blackbird Flashdrive

    USB enabled Flashdive with 4 GB storage capacity includes:

    Meal Ticket To Purgatory (LP)
    Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug (LP)
    Vancouver And All The Reasons Why (EP)
    Songs (EP)
    Heaven On A Branch (LP)
    Let It Goddam Be (LP)

    Audio files come in high quality .aiff compression with all album artwork, bonus images, lyrics,
    also includes flac and mp3 format files.

    Shipping is listed at the flat Priority Rate with insurance. If you would like to use a different shipping option, please contact us first and we can calculate based on your location.
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  • Our original demo for "Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Leaning To Love The Drug" looked a lot like this pie - a handmade, very low-yield resin casting with 23 sculpted blackbirds arranged inside. 1 4GB blackbird flash drive with music from the album, album artwork by Pete Luckner, an unreleased cover, bonus images, lyrics, and .mp4 format videos for "Lovely In Akron" and "Out To Lunch". Also includes 11 recipe cards with handwritten lyrics.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heaven On A Branch via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 2 
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  • Digipack - Compact Disc
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    4 panel digipack - 10 songs in stereo friendly .wav format. Original paintings by Peter Luckner.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 7 The Van Allen Belt releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Let It Goddam Be, Heaven On A Branch, Songs, Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug, Vancouver And All The Reasons Why, Solar Crosses Stolen From The Cemetery, and Meal Ticket To Purgatory. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

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"'Slanted to the Left' might be the most interesting song on the album with its seventies theme-tune feel and delirious lyrics."
- David Harry, Americana UK

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“Kerosene” shall melt thy steel of tower
May the wrath of Allah bring it down in one hour
Funny fact about buildings hit by planes
If the building has five sides, the plane leaves no remains
Scientists are slanted to the left!
Exploding elevators all around
Journalists and firemen all heard the sound
Washington makes vehicles reshape
What did the gas station catch on tape?
Video is slanted to the left!
Cleveland seems a ways from Somerset
(You know, that place where they never found a jet)
Those 19 Arab boys will burn in hell
That is, when they’re all through being alive and well
Reality is slanted to the left!
Churches everywhere have bought into the scare
They blindly still endorse the force to stay the course
An unrelated point while here rockin’ the boat
A brush up on some history you seem to like to quote
The Sadducees and Pharisees were on their knees
Young progressive Hebrew disagrees
Says do not live by the sword
Says we should give like the Lord
Jesus was slanted to the left!
You can keep the truth out of your mind
But Jesus was murdered by your kind!

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The Van Allen Belt Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Van Allen Belt is impossible to categorize, luscious to listen to. This isn't your typical trippy, psychedelic music ― this is unique.

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