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According to My Pal God Records, Missing Fits, the third album by "masked rockers" the Goblins, is the product of an unusual discovery. Allegedly in late 1999, the band was hanging out with Corey Rusk, the man behind Chicago's Touch & Go Records, when he let them look at The Coffin, a prized prop of hardcore horror punks the Misfits. When left alone with The Coffin, the Goblins discovered "a secret compartment full of papers, props, artwork, record sleeve designs and sheet music." The Goblins spent the next thirteen months in the studio recording these previously unreleased Misfits songs. To sweeten the deal, the Goblins will include three Quicktime clips of Goblins archival video footage and a video game demo.

If the above story doesn't stretch the band's credibility enough for you, perhaps the exhaustive liner notes written by noted scholar Dr. Yuri Strier, Chairman of the University of Chicago's Musics and Cultures Department, will push you over the edge. They claim that "this collection should appeal to the rawest teenage Misfits fan, the most sophisticated punk and hardcore connoisseurs to the most clinical ethnomusicologists." No, really, they actually said that! Missing Fits is slated for an October 1st release.

If you want it now, goddamnit, the Goblins website has a limited edition version of the album including bonus tracks, lyrics, a poster, a badge, a comic book, and ashes of a former drummer called The Missing Fits Urn Set. We wonder if the ashes all come from the same former drummer.