Troy Davis writes:
When I lived in the Ohio State campus area in Columbus, Ohio in the 1990s, I picked up my first Chick tract parody when I picked up "Break-Up! Records" from the free lit table at Magnolia Thunderpussy Records (soon thereafter, I had my second Chick tract parody when I bought Dan Clowes' Eightball #1 which had "Devil Doll" at the Monkeys Retreat). The interior of this uncredited tract is a détournement of the classic tract "A Demon's Nightmare" in which the young man converts to Pat Boone records despite the work of the rock-and-roll demons. It was a pretty good parody and I included it on the Chick Tract Parody Page.
Recently, someone on eBay was selling an entire Break-Up! Records promo pack including the tract I had and another parody, along with other promo material and a pop punk 45. I won the auction and the other tract parody "Break Up? has a bootleg cover illustration from "Who, Me?" and the interior is a détournement of "Somebody Goofed" in which the naive young man is lured away from the jazz-preaching old guy by the rock-loving demon disguised as a human. It's hilarious and the better written of the two (it helps that the Chick tract it's spoofing is much more demented than the other Chick tract). I have updated the parody page to included this new book.
One final thing, the two songs by the pop punk group Pop Rocks! have a good 90s alt rock sound.
Contributions of weird tracts to the museum can be made by mail: send your weird tracts to Les Zazous Postmodern Art Gallery 3475 Guernsey Street, Bellaire, Ohio 43906.
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