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    Posted: December 17 2018 at 16:15
Howdy, first post here.

Out of obscure prog bands, one of my favourites is the Texas band "Hands", however it's pretty difficult to find much of their material. A couple of their albums are on youtube and their 2015 release "Caviar Bobsled" is on itunes, but that's basically it. I especially want to get hold of their 2008 album "Strangelet" as it has glowing reviews on the site.

Anyone know of an easy way to access their discography?
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Greg Walker from synphonic carries a few of their releases. http://synphonicmusic.com/country/usa.html
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Strangelet may cost you a pretty penny for a CD.....I've read only 100 or so were pressed. In this case I suspect you will find/get a burned copy.
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About 18 months ago the dude behind Shroom Records (or claiming to be him) popped up in a thread about Hands on the Progressive Ears forum. He said he can supply the whole Shroom back catalogue “in the form of custom made CD-R's featuring full artwork front, back, spines, and discs - housed in miniature gate fold album style cardboard jackets”. I have no idea how legit this is - if at all - but you could try the email he gave, [email protected] and see what the deal is.

Failing that, Discogs.

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^Those CDr reissues are officially sanctioned, IIRC.
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Strangelet and their latest effort, Caviar Bobsled, are both outstanding. I got both albums from a friend, who is also a friend and collaborator of the band, but I remember him telling me that Strangelet is very hard to find.
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and both albums are f**king fantastic and worth the expense and effort to get

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Thanks for the replies, think I'll try a couple of the sellers people mentioned, assuming stuff like strangelet is in stock. Shame it's so hard to find, wish they'd do a digital release like for Caviar Bobsled.
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Someone posted the whole Strangelet album in a single continuous flac file on Usenet, which is kind of weird. I could put it on Dropbox for a while if you're interested. Let me know here, then we could exchange PMs (assuming PA has PMs - I'm never here that frequently, so don't know).

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