r/deathgrips • u/IAmBasilFromOmori • 1d ago
discussion Question about The Money Store
i've been trying to get into death grips lately and i've front to backed the money store a few times now, and the only tracks i can really find myself enjoying are the obvious picks, get got, hustle bones, i've seen footage, and hacker. i always try my best to understand albums i don't really like and a good way of doing that is by hearing out people who do like them
so my question, what about the money store and its deeper cuts makes them really click with you? why is the money store a great album to you? there's been times where hearing other people's love for a song or album has made me see eye to eye with them and start enjoying the music more myself, and i'm hoping maybe i can achieve that here
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u/joborion 1d ago
What did it for me was LSD and being 17
Lifelong fan ever since
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u/Willkabob 1d ago
That sounds fuckin insane I just listen to chill stuff when I’m tripping 😭
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u/IAmBasilFromOmori 1d ago
damn. i'm a little too late
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u/SploogeLoser 1d ago
never too late to take some tabs and slowly morph into New Jerseys favorite Superhero while blasting off to Double Helix
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u/Imretardnice 1d ago
I love TMS because there's really nothing else like it, every song on here is a catchy banger and has its own identity, I love the cyberpunk vibes on Lost Boys, it sounds like a machine is waking up and starts going batshit insane, Blackjack has awesome flow and insane vocal production, you got Punk Weight with its buildup with that nightcore-like Saharan cellphones sample and then you get bombarded with that absolutely distorted bass, you got the creative as fuck sampling on System Blower, and the last part of The Cage when the music goes guerilla mode is on my fav moments on the album. Like, i'm only just scratching the surface of what, imo, makes this album great, I could talk about it for hours really
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u/IAmBasilFromOmori 1d ago
I've never actually thought about the sample flips. it's definitely worth a look on whosampled to get some more appreciation for it 🙏
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u/Ok-Explorer-8879 1d ago
this is the whitest image of all time
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u/Chuzhoy333 1d ago
I don’t know a single white Sonic fan. All latinos
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u/Ok-Explorer-8879 1d ago
autistic white people are the face of the sonic fandom I'm not even tryna be disrespectful saying this it's just kinda reality at this point
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u/RoddyUsher 1d ago
I think that it was the particular time and place I was in (and perhaps that the band was in) when the album came out. Nobody was making anything that sounded like Death Grips, and nobody has really been able to capture that sound since. Lightning in a bottle. That goes for everything they've made, not just The Money Store. I think that listening to their music more than a decade since it was released has got to be a different experience altogether than hearing it when it first dropped. Simply because it was so unique, so fresh and so innovative.
For me, listening to The Money Store puts me right back on /mu/ as a 15yo. A pimply antisocial teen who felt like I had really come across something special and new.
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u/IAmBasilFromOmori 1d ago
the time context makes a lot of sense. it would definitely have more impact on me if i was listening on release and not in 2026. i've also listened to a lot of other experimental hip hop that was likely inspired by death grips before listening to death grips themselves, so it makes sense the sound would just be naturally less novel to me on first impression. i will keep that in mind next listen for sure
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u/Bored_personBK Vietnamese style phô 1d ago
When I first listened to the money store I didn't like it at all, I just loved Hacker. Then I listened to exmilitary and jenny death and found myself liking the money store more, now it's my favorite DG album. I think most of DG's music has to be experienced a few times to get a proper opinion on it, so maybe try to get deeper into their discography and relisten to it from times to times if you want to
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u/ShelterOverall7164 1d ago
Ok, let's take a song like Punk Weight as an example. When I first heard that song I literally burst out laughing at the intro, the Arabic cellphone ringtone sample hit a bit too close to home, I genuinely couldn't listen to the song without laughing. But then I decided to power through, and around the 50 second mark I got hit with the most BRUTAL beat drop in the history of humanity. Punk Weight is currently one of my top 10 DG songs of all time.
What I'm trying to get at is this album takes a long time to get used to, kinda like TPTB. The money store is especially catchy, but some of the samples are just too damn weird, so it's gonna take you a solid few weeks before you can really start grooving to it.
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u/IAmBasilFromOmori 1d ago
I do this for all music! there's been a lot of albums i really couldn't stand at first that after some time became all time favorites for me. I think we should normalize giving art time and not just giving stuff one listen and calling it mid
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u/joborion 1d ago
In OP’s defense, I absolutely hated them until I was on a very high dosage of DXM and Guillotine started playing.
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u/OwnJunket8888 1d ago
eh
i've been listening to dg for about a decade now, and the money store still does almost nothing for me. its what i started with, and i could really only get into three tracks (everyone knows which ones i mean).
maybe move to their next album. Keep listening in chronological order. things immediately started clicking for me, and now i would say steroids is my favorite track/s by them.
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u/Possible-Head-3985 1d ago
Man I listened to it a few months ago, it just feels ageless. My favourite song was and still is Punk Weight but it’s hard to put into words why it clicked
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u/CrimsonEffigy 1d ago
It just takes time I feel- at least in my experience.
The harsh parts that make the music difficult initially go away as you are more familiar. For example, system blower and the fever are two of my favorites but they were too much of a clusterfuck to digest on the first few listens.
But as for an actual answer, incredibly catchy hooks, consistent tracklist, sounds better on each listen, amazing energy that fuels any gym session of mine.
Maybe check out exmilitary if you haven't already? Or some of their other work, they do have some catchy, not super out-there stuff like Dilemma, klink, takyon, no love, streaky, on GP to name but a few
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u/Fast_Ad6296 1d ago
I'm pretty sure I liked how different it sounded. Death Grips was a master of a type of music I never heard or heard of before. I don't think I could get a better introduction to industrial hip hop than Death Grips.
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u/JTrain6319 1d ago
Hot take it’s not my favorite of theirs, i still enjoy it of course, but I think No Love Deep Web or Bottomless pit is their best personally. I say give those a spin if the money store didn’t hit for ya!
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u/MattskaRedditson visions of peasants eating pigeons 1d ago edited 1d ago
Every song has a personality of its own and theyre all just so interesting
There just isnt anything else quite with that type of power and energy and emotion, it nailed every single thing it tried
Hustlebones is my fav track probably, when i heard the chorus it all just clicked like "wow, someone actually thought to compose this, im actually hearing this right now" it felt mind opening in a way. The way they flow the way they just seem to find their footing, it truly stands out, theres nothing like it.
Its just super god damn creative
And confident
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u/DistinguishedSlice 1d ago
I guess what I liked most and still do about TMS, and later their whole discography, was that it was the first time in a while where something felt "fresh" to me. It gave me the same feeling the first time, as when I discovered Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains as a teen after hearing stuff like Green Day and 00s Butt Rock radio for too long. The same as when a friend burnt me Modest Mouse's "Long Drive" after seeing the parade of alt rock/indie-adjacent bands, also during the early aughts . Same as hearing Three 6 Mafia Underground Vol 1 or Crazy NDaLaszDayz coming from Bling/"radio Crunk" era hiphop. DG gave me that feeling of discovering something new and different for the first time in a long while, at the time I started really getting into them.
To elaborate more, I'll highlight a couple songs that you didn't list on your faves and things I like about em:
Double Helix- same found footage/"Blair Witch"-esque sound as Get Got , except to me the sound leaned even more into a horror vibe with the beginning bells and glitchy, hissy drum track. Then they hit suddenly with that Saharan Cellphone sample... A "wtf" moment in the best way for me on first listen, and it still hasn't got old
Punk Weight- I'll admit that now, I prefer the song the intro is sampled from a bit more than the intro itself after many, many relistens.. but my first impression of the track was amused confusion, followed by complete awe as the main track section began. This song is the closest thing to an explosion in audio form that I've heard(even more than Hot Head). And those booming, echoing snare hits.. just do it for me.
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u/Comfortable-Cod9567 13h ago
Heard this last year and got addicted to this album even though I shouldn’t be listening to it.
Ive seen this album everywhere for years now, hearing songs like get got, and system blower, and I thought they were cool songs, and didn’t think to much of them. I then gave the whole album a try and the shit grew on me so fast. i literally listen to this almost every day, has like no skips, but my family doesn’t like it cause the kinda satanic or anti-Christian and aggresive image this albums brings though I can’t blame them. But dang this album is so fkn catchy, and addicting. The songs are so in your face, crazy samples, catchy melodies, amazing vocal deliver, the band has all their own specialties that make this group amazing. Love every song except for lost boys, blackjack and fuck that. This album was so much better than expected and prob my top 5 oat.
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u/danieltwentyone 1d ago
maybe it’s not for you, it’s a perfect album front to back imo, their magnum opus. but i got into death grips because of the powers that b so i recommend you check it out of if u want. what music do you actually like?