Discount (band)

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Discount
Discount performing at Michiganfest 2000, in Wayne, MI on March 25th, 2000
Discount performing at Michiganfest 2000, in Wayne, MI on March 25th, 2000
Background information
Genre(s) Punk
Years active 19952000
Label(s) New American Dream, Fueled by Ramen, Liquid Meat, Kat Records
Former members
Alison Mosshart
Bill Nesper
Ryan Seagrist
Todd Rockhill
James Parker
Justin Focco

Discount was a punk rock band from Vero Beach, Florida that formed in 1995 and disbanded in 2000. They released three full length albums, several EPs, and two b-side collections. Members have gone on to form The Kills, The Kitchen, Black Cougar Shock Unit, Unitas, the Routineers, The Draft, and Monikers.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] Full-Length Albums

  • Ataxia's Alright Tonight (1996), Liquid Meat/Far Out Records
  • Half Fiction (1997), Kat Records
  • Crash Diagnostic (2000), New American Dream

[edit] EPs / 7 inches / Splits

  • Mom Lied To Me (1995), Parking Lot Records/self release
  • Three Piece Suit (1995), 3 way split with Combination Grey and Pohgoh
  • Discount/My Pal Trigger split 7" (1996), Tripucka Records
  • Discount/Flatspots/Wolfdaddys/Stizzle split 7" (1996), Boxcar Records

(Featuring the band's cover of The Golden Girls Theme)

  • All Too Often 7" (1996), Mighty Idy Records
  • Wonder Pulled Me Under 7" (1996), Liquid Meat Records
  • Discount/Shotwell Coho split 7" (1997), What Else Records
  • Discount/Cigarretteman split 7" (1997), Snuffy Smiles/Suburban Home Records
  • Discount/J Church split 7" (1997), Liquid Meat Records
  • Her Last Day 7" (1997), Helter Skelter/Panic Records
  • Discount/Crettins Puddle split CDEP (1998), Shock Records
  • Discount/My Winter Jane split 7" (1998), Snuffy Smiles
  • Love, Billy (1998), Fueled by Ramen
  • Discount/As Friends Rust split 7" (1999), Good Life Recordings
  • Open Ended Aerial 7" (1999), Rugger Bugger
  • Read Army Faction 7" (2000), 4 way split with Avail, The Weakerthans and Hot Water Music, No Idea Records

(All four songs where taken from Better Read Than Dead compilation on AK Press)

(Featuring 5 E.L.O. covers from J Church and the 5 Billy Bragg covers by Discount from the Love, Billy CDEP)

  • Discount/Beauty School Dropout split 7" (?), Speedowax

[edit] B-Side Collections

  • Singles #1 (2002), New American Dream
  • Singles #2 (2002), New American Dream

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