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Inconvenience Store

by Smol Data

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  • INCONVENIENCE STORE TAPE
    Cassette + Digital Album

    - First pressing hand-numbered /25 copies
    - Translucent Silver shells with Green & Red glitter inside!!
    - Bonus stickers included (not pictured)

    This is a pre-order that we're HOPING will be ready by the time the album releases on 5/14, but give us a little leeway with manufacturing! Also, that is a mock-up and will potentially look a bit different from the final product. Hopefully not a deal-breaker in that case!

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  • INCONVENIENCE STORE TAPE SECOND PRESSING
    Cassette + Digital Album

    - Second pressing hand-numbered /25 copies
    - Electric blue** shells :) so pretty :)
    - Bonus stickers included (not pictured)

    This is a pre-order that we're HOPING will be ready by the end of the month, but that may be shifted forwards or backwards! Also, that is a mock-up and will look a bit different from the final product**. Hopefully not a deal-breaker in that case!

    **Previously translucent blue, the manufacturer that supplies our blanks ended up not having the stock they reported for translucent and will be supplying electric blue (the same thing but opaque) instead.

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1.
i missed the signal, but felt the end of a crackling stale era cus surely it couldn’t be just those street lamps lighting yr face up turnt sideways on the highway you know what they say about virginia now- what’s the chance we could traverse our made-up forty-eight hours? yr signals of ambivalence have kept me wired the whole night since of dumb proofs, there are so few I would not do… just to keep up with you cus when I tasted the salt in yr hair six sheets of bitterness dissolved into thin air fools’ classic moves held tried and true as frantic hands tried to keep up with you mommy tried to curb her pining on the drive back to the island but you blared the self-titled, so there’s no use “oh, but a weekend’s not the record” you said I could write it better I just want to write it better this time (whooooooa hey!) I’ll scan the room at core events with notes inside my back pockets these fruitless pursuits make no sense but yr mania’s contagious so I’ll swoon by the full moon in crowded rooms, just to keep up with reassess all presets if only I could keep up close my red eyes tonight just to keep up with you
2.
no one smoking regs in the backyard knows the debt yr in on every card any entry job you lost dodging tasks in the back off(ice) sobbing in yr car fresh off the clock he’s a tallboy deep when I walk in I instantly take notice… *she’s* missing yr angel face flown off yr arm meet: canvas to project upon but every shallow exchange will go wrong so… honey, tell me, is she salaried? are her invoices all paid? does she boil pots of tea and plant trees at her parents’ house when she’s home for the holidays? bet she scribbles in a pink planner folds the pages, dots her i’s sunbeam on her perfect skin, each morning without one extraction well, I’m no match oh, who could I kid, man? I get it we bounced over to the corner store snuck our t-shirts passed the door well, you asked bout my “game plan”, my ex man, my major and more “I’m trying ‘employment’ but I can’t enjoy it there’s tears on my post-its / gold stars on my pink slips” can see yr head’s spinning, it’s just a few minutes! some things better left half-said under snare hits but is she salaried? are her student loans all paid? does she set a soft alarm, walk the dog mow the leaves, rake the lawn when she’s home on a holiday? bet she’s out for drinks now with her boss pitching scripts and swapping goss(ip) bottle blonde with no damage, even ends eats her grilled cheese with bread my friends impressed that I got out of bed man, I get it
3.
listening to yr band makes me sad fighting with yr friends made me feel so mad you push it just so far pull off in yr dad’s car listening to yr band makes me sad sitting on the fence made me look so bad you push it just so far pull off in yr dad’s car oh, I feel it coming on ice cracking / burns the bomb then turn to me for rules as if I don’t have skeletons too trade pennies for yr thoughts trade mornings for long walks it’s all so safe to say when it won’t matter, anyway
4.
Tinceltown! 02:27
shaky circling ‘round yr hometown BK lot searching for a safer place to park but you’ve got starry eyes and tales that looks a lot like mine I know, I know ruthless youth with no diplomacy or tact defunct- but they’ll burn me if I crack but you’ve a heart of gold and ten excuses getting old I know, I know…. how sometimes things get scary but its always me drawn red-eyed in the snow oh, cause on this side… things get hairy and that’s more the sorta script I can follow cause I want yr shame want a decade back on yr old myspace page want the Green Day lyrics set for yr away message, yr online girlfriend mark the parallel fools we’ve been I know it sounds wack.... but I want that and if they catch you, veil pulled back yr name drawn from a hat I’m glad we’re both better than that not sure what they’ll do but if they vote to burn you, they’ll have to burn me too
5.
I would start the car for you crack o' dawn, lace up my boots fidget with a stranger’s glass doors- no key, I’m locked out but it’s cool we chased commercial success on adjacent south shore carpets now southern billboards pass, all while the package loses cash whatever and if I really wanted change I would know just where to go and if I really wanted fame well, I can make those fall winds blow but if it really wanted me hope it knows just what to do rumor has you want the past well, I've got something better for you “will or won’t they?” - votes the room like teenage straights from a cartoon and next, I’m barefoot on the high wire poised right like old times but that’s fine cus ummm, if I really wanted change I’d know damn well where to go and if I played for instant gains well, I’d’ve just made those fall winds blow but if it really wanted me …. (thank you… thank you everyone.) hope it knows just what to do rumor has you want the past but I’ve got patience
6.
Bitch Store! 03:03
I am not a piggy bank however pink, round and shiny oh, I was never in your debt yr love is not a currency yet, now my round belly’s full of coins half in-tact and half digested and if you really want ‘em back yr sure gonna have to dig :-| ….......... we met at the pour house class of 14’s speakeasy staff reserved your seat and now the dirt taste keeps me seeing straight for the time being let’s see you crawl your way outta this one, hun shoulda cleared the cache ahead (instead you) wished I’d missed yr pointy digits pick through my mentions I will not bow down for a blue check I won’t pull shades to mask these red flags I won’t play house in a white van or your sedan, or the police station I won’t pray hard, on the ride home with your AC on or we’re toast on the road I’ll free my breath, ungrip the leather, and move on shame, you almost had me conned I swore I saw a squad for life the only time we saw eye-to-eye is when we laughed at what the trash reply guys write now I’m seeing clear as crystals peered through holes in your defense at a catfishin’, alias shiftin’ “Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome” ass looking bitch (*gasp*) (LOL) (SICK burn) (yr so cool… AND right!) (one more time!) (pick it up!) (okay, now put it back xD) I am not Woody, and you are not Buzz you can’t pull a string, hear what you want because I freed my breath, un-gripped the leather, and moved on
7.
Bagel Store! 03:31
the day I met yr high school friends you proposed we steal from them we drove my mom’s car to the north shore I was your chauffeur with no plans no surprise the dewy cans slid right through our slimy hands and then we drove off back to Montauk (hwy) we’re The World’s Worst Anarchists (da da da) the day I met yr old roommates well, you had to meet me at the gate winked as I rolled past and blocked the rest blamed it on the ~new climate~ the day I met yr ex-boyfriend at the empty train station heard who got barred from Philadelphia I see how your views could change but if that’s what yr latest call “progressive” then, heaven knows, I want no part of it cus if “holding folx accountable for cream cheese wiped off a bagel” is….. well a surface that reflective should’ve been careful with any outside noise afloat searching for a place to go cause now you’ve got friends with covered eyes and plans that’d make the last ones cry lemme tell you bout it
8.
I’m freakin out bout a lotta things in my head friends pissed off cus I’m not listening but I’m just waiting for that same spam call to buzz and send me spiraling I’m freakin out bout the day I turn 24 not much left could impress anymore I’m long passed young and sad enough for the kids to line up at my store :-( I’m freakin out I’m freakin out ‘bout my future the fortune and failure, at once I’m freakin out about stamped letters the dry spells don’t get any wetter and I’m still unsure of my balance I’m freaking out about clocks ticking looks fading, momentum thinning nineteen was a play that cut so fast can’t build a house with no cash and no clout :-\ I’m freakin out yr freakin out we’re freakin out ‘bout the deadlines the weekends, the side eyes at brunch
9.
Sword Store! 03:05
today’s the day I’m gonna get my sword know my face claims “relaxed” but I’m eyeing the glass today’s the day I’m gonna get my sword ripped it right from my spine ripe and fresh to get mine “WOWEE” - them, at me and my sword acting on my own accord why, just last week I parked in the city, leaving not a thing that you could offer me- now with silver blade slicing through some weak charade with all the force of a decade silently prepping for this day cus today’s the day I’m gonna get my sword know I’ve been wrong before but now the far stars ensure today’s the day I’m gonna get my sword cause you’d sell me out for a xanax and a spot on the guest list go! (ba ba ba)
10.
if you came to visit I’ve no clue where we’d go you’d suggest the beach been a while since you’ve seen dirty water in such high quantities and if you came to see me I’ve not a clue what we’d do but settle on a chain clean our twice processed plates and you’d recall why you pushed for the last possible day but I don’t think, if you left, the stars would fall from the sky and I don’t think, when you left, those words stopped making me high it’s so twisted how my rivals are handing me tips oh, but they and their mob a’int got shit on our law at the break of dawn

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Told through her own quirks and metaphors, Inconvenience Store is a breakout moment for Karah Goldstein, the mind and voice behind the melodramatic and creative Long Island-based project Smol Data.

Written and recorded entirely by Karah (she/her) with Billy Mannino (oso oso, Bigger Better Sun) on mastering, Inconvenience Store is a meta finger-point at the inner workings of an independent music scene, meant to be listened to as a whole, in order.

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released May 14, 2021

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