Their first 12" was released in 1998, followed by their debut CD, "This Is Just The Beginning" and "No Gimmicks Needed" LP on Blackout! Records the next year. The band subsequently signed to Side One Dummy Records and released two albums, "Funeral For A Feeling" in 2001 and "From Companionship To Competition" in 2005. KYI has also released quite a few EP's and split EP's including 2002's split with fellow LIHC band Crime In Stereo.
By January, 2006 the band had been together for ten years and celebrated by playing an anniversary show with friends Inhuman, Ensign, Two Man Advantage, Shell Shock and others at CBGB.
They disbanded in the May of 2007, playing their final show in a parking lot to 200-300 people, including many close friends. Local authorities shut down the originally intended last show after the audience far exceeded the venues capacity, and so it had to be moved last minute to a car park at a LI rehearsal studio.
Some members of the band founded Black Anvil.
Fur Is For Fucks
Kill Your Idols Lyrics
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In Fur Is For Fucks, Kill Your Idols draws attention to the cruelty behind the use of fur in fashion, and the complete disregard for the lives of animals that is displayed by the people who wear it. The lyrics condemn those who choose to wear fur as a means of status, highlighting the hypocrisy in valuing appearances over the lives of sentient beings. The use of the word "whore" in the chorus further implies that this behavior is shameful and morally bankrupt.
The song also addresses the issue of trapping, describing the "viscous traps" and the skinning of animals. Kill Your Idols questions the morality of the people who choose to engage in these practices and highlights the injustice of deciding which animals live and die for the sake of fashion.
In the ending of the song, the band takes a harsh stance, comparing the use of fur to a "holocaust," which serves as a powerful indictment of the fashion industry and highlights the scale of the suffering that is inflicted upon animals.
Line by Line Meaning
Fur is for fucks
Wearing fur is only for people who simply don't care
People who don't care, looking for status in the clothes the you wear.
Those who wear fur only do so to appear wealthy and fashionable while lacking empathy
As long as you look good, who cares about their pain, animals killed for fashion? How could you be so vain?
Wearing fur is only acceptable if you're willing to ignore the pain and suffering of the animals and prioritize your own vanity
CH~> You have no respect for life so why should I respect yours? spending thousands on death just to be fashions whore. How dare you choose which ones live or die, it's not just a product, these are fucking lives.
Those who wear fur have no respect for animal life, making it difficult to respect their own lives. They are willing to pay high prices for the deaths of countless animals just for fashion, and they ignore the fact that these animals are living beings
Fur is for fucks with hypocritical views, ignoring the trappers and all that they do.
People who wear fur while ignoring the cruelty of trapping animals hold hypocritical views
Viscous traps, and skins ripped from (their) hides how dare you decide who lives and who dies!
Using ruthless traps and ripping off innocent animal skins to create fashion items is unjust, and it's not up to us to choose which animals should live or die
ENDING what you see as fashion, I see as a holocaust. You don't care about their suffering, don't care about the cost...
Wearing fur is not just a fashion choice- it's a cruel and unjust act that is comparable to an animal holocaust. People who wear fur disregard the immense pain and suffering that these animals went through, and ultimately, ignore the high cost of their own actions
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