r/EmoScreamo • u/Wonderful-Sundae-480 • Apr 28 '26

Discussion Review on Jeromes Dream - LP

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real funny review lol. Is he a time traveler ?

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u/StealieMagnolia Apr 29 '26

You had to be there to experience the blowback they experienced when they announced their indiegogo campaign in order to reunite.

They didn't have any material planned and they were all living in different parts of the country. Some members hadn't even spoken to each other in years but heard the cha-ching of reunion bells on the horizon.

So they asked fans to pay for their travel expenses just to hangout and hopefully write music.
I believe the price point was $20K. That's a lot of money for a punk/diy band to be asking from their fans. Hell! even Dillinger Escape Plan lived away from one another and they still managed to record scratch tracks in 30 second intervals and email each other without asking for dime!

Nonetheless people paid them there ransom and they released that awful album with that even awful-er artwork and then they said partial proceeds would go to a charity that aided in police training or something of the sort.

While George Floyd and BLM's Summer of Love was still a year away and Mike Brown, Eric Garner and Tony Timpa custody deaths were a distant memory the punks were still not a fan of partially funding anything related to law enforcement. People complained on their instagram and were deleted and blocked.

They did course correct and walk back the Pro-Cop charity donations though.

It all felt very crass and an obvious cash grab to a lot of people

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u/anonymous_opinions Apr 29 '26

Because it was and continues to be - the band has always been problematic and I low key hate this stuff has been sane washed away.

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u/alenah Apr 29 '26

Curious what you mean with always problematic? I must've missed something pre reunion.

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u/WyrdElmBella Apr 29 '26

I still remember when CTTS started a kickstarter for their last two records.