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“Hangman Records,” says Childish, “it’s a bloody joke! All we did was to show people that it’s possible to make records without meaning to make a lot of money. Mind you, we ’re not even managing to do that, but what the hell. We just chuck mountains of stuff at the market and we always hope that something in the heap will turn out sufficiently commercial. Of course, commercial for us means the same as ruinous for others. We are highly talented business losers. We’ve still got some old Milkshakes recordings and with a bit of luck we’ll sell enough to finance the really ‘obscure’ stuff. Music is a really pretty nice old business, people like rhythm and all that stuff, it cheers em up”