Steve Albini has spoken out about his past transgressive and “edgelord” behaviour, explaining that “nothing was off-limits” at the time.The producer/engineer played in bands called Rapeman and Run N***** Run in the 1980s, touted his friend’s child pornography magazine in the Forced Exposure zine in ’78, and is reported to have used a racial slur against Tyler, The Creator in an online forum in 2011.The latter incident occurred after Albini shared a shuttle bus with Odd Future in Barcelona.
He called the group “little pricks”, adding: “I haven’t wanted to strangle anybody that much in a real long time.”Taking to Twitter last month, Albini said that he had “some ‘splainin to do” after becoming aware of people attempting to “out” him in.
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