Sumerian Records Buys The Hard Times

Satirical web site The Laborious Instances (principally punk and steel’s The Onion) has been bought by Sumerian Data. In keeping with an announcement from The Laborious Instances and Laborious Drive CEO and founder Matt Saincome issued on December 14, the 2 web sites will now have their very own print magazines, comedian e-book collaborations, and animated variations of articles.

So we’ll see how that goes. I assume this additionally is not too stunning contemplating The Laborious Instances was having some financial issues earlier this year. Saincome‘s assertion is in full under.

“Excellent news! Laborious Instances and Laborious Drive are actually owned by Sumerian Leisure, who need to make animated variations of our headlines, print variations of our magazines (!), and comedian e-book collabs with our favourite bands/video games,” wrote Saincome.

“Our staff will stay in place, however be joined by all of Sumerian’s infrastructure to aim these items. Once we launched this factor 10 years in the past we thought solely a small group of our associates within the punk scene would take pleasure in it. It is really wild that our content material has been loved by so many individuals, together with individuals who made music or video games which are so essential to us.

“So thanks to everybody who has contributed jokes, shared a headline, and even simply took day out of their day to trace down the place I dwell and threaten to kill me as a result of we revealed a joke you did not like. You might be all equally essential to me and I look ahead to persevering with to interact on this very regular world of on-line content material for an additional 100 years.”