www.tism.wanker.com by TISM

www.tism.wanker.com, the fourth studio album from Melbourne's balaclava-clad provocateurs TISM (This Is Serious Mum), is named for a web address that barely outlived the record. The band couldn't get wanker.com.au past Australian domain rules, so a friendly soul overseas who owned wanker.com lent them a subdomain; nobody paid the hosting bill, and the site disappeared several months after launch. Shock put the album out, it climbed to number 26 on the ARIA charts, and it picked up a nomination for Best Independent Release at the 1998 ARIA Music Awards.

The joke runs all the way down. Early CDs carried a CD-ROM that keeps asking whether you really want to continue, then announces it's downloading a virus, which it isn't. Under the gags sits the usual TISM package of pitch-black humor, sneering delivery and melodies that stick like burrs. It got a CD and blue vinyl reissue in 2022, and a seven-disc Wanker Box marked its 25th anniversary in 2023.

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