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Sticky Fingers

Shoplifting Matures with Body Stories

SEATTLE QUARTET SHOPLIFTING was met with immediate and ready welcome upon their inception in 2003. Formed from the uneasy debris of the Chromatics, the new band immediately defined themselves with a more socially polemic initiative and a somewhat messy, all-inclusive performance aesthetic. They voraciously experimented with all manner of performance art effects and community-involving tactics, […]

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