In his glowing endorsement of Peter Soto’s PURE magazine, a child pornography zine which got Sotos convicted of possessing and distributing CP, Albini praises PURE for it’s punk rock ethos and speaks warmly of Sotos. Albini also goes on to express his own pleasure at the content of the magazine:

The cover of PURE 2 is a guy holding open a toddler’s puny hole so his spuzz can dribble out. The girl is past crying. She is destroyed. Like I said, I like that sort of thing

Source: https://i.imgur.com/Gm7otzo.jpg

From the European Big Black tour diary, Albini recounts his enjoyment of the child pornography magazines he found in a sex shop in Hamburg:

Jaded as I am, I can’t help but flip seeing a girl and guy of twelve or thirteen, tops, ramming Martel bottles up each other’s asses. These are not the Dutch equivalent of abused trailer-park kids, either. They look to be in excellent health and seem to be honestly enjoying this. Makes all the conventional arguments against this kind of thing seem really silly. They’re kids. Kids like to play with their own and other people’s privates. They’re just being photographed at it. Now, people who get a voyeuristic charge out of watching them, like me, I guess, well, we’ve got some grip-on-reality problems. There’s maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it’s definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it’s as weird as this, it’s pretty hard to take.

Source: https://i.imgur.com/9obDb08.jpg

Further elaboration on Albini’s friendship with Sotos and his own child pornography conviction:

Sotos defending his distribution of child pornography in court, stating "child abuse is a sublime pleasure: https://i.imgur.com/UCn5NFB.png

Albini praising Sotos’ “art” and his friendship with the convicted child pornographer: https://i.imgur.com/WLQb5ke.png

Albini also helped Sotos produce Buyers Market, a unauthorized collection of court testimonies and police interviews from child rape victims.

TL;DR - Steve Albini is a pedophile who has twice admitted to owning and enjoying child pornography. He is also close friends with Peter Sotos of White House, a convicted child pornographer who published child porn zines in the 80s and makes “art” about child rape.

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Mainly because it seems unbelievable to me that a well known person could openly say they like child pornography and nothing bad happens to them, I looked into it a bit more and it seems like he wrote a lot of stuff just like this to be shocking. And now says he regrets a lot of that stuff. But he also was associating himself with Sotos and apparently knew perfectly well what Sotos was because it was public record at that point, so I’m leaning towards wall.

    • thisonethatone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 years ago

      There is edgy, and then there is… that abomination of a quote.

      It speaks to a profound lack of empathy. To him, the suffering of the most vulnerable is valid entertainment. He, like Sotos, feels entitled to this “”“entertainment”“” It speaks a lot to his lack of boundaries and respect for other people.

      He reminds me of that musician that abused a baby imo.

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Reading through his wiki page without any of this context, he sure comes off as a serious chauvinist sexist asshole in how he talks about music and the industry.

    He seems to have come up during the twilight of the ‘classic rock’ dudes era, so I’m sure he was chuddy with all those ‘tastes just like a young girl should’ shitheads. I’d guess his contrarian ‘punk’ :galaxy-brain: :brainworms: also made him into a post-boomer edgelord pioneer.

    Just total :libertarian-alert: all over the place.

    Then these quotes just lay it all out so clearly and plainly.

    The fact that this asshole hasn’t been shunned out of the music industry decades ago really shows how totally fucked up things are over there.

    :gui-better: :marx-guns-blazing:

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    There’s maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it’s definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it’s as weird as this, it’s pretty hard to take.

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  • MC_Kublai [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

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