Here's Albini recounting buying child pornography while in Hamburg:
Jaded as I am, I can't help but flip seeing a girl and guy of twelve or thirteen, tops, ramming Martel bottles up each other's asses. These are not the Dutch equivalent of abused trailer-park kids, either. They look to be in excellent health and seem to be honestly enjoying this. Makes all the conventional arguments against this kind of thing seem really silly.
They're kids. Kids like to play with their own and other people's privates. They're just being photographed at it. Now, people who get a voyeuristic charge out of watching them, like me, I guess, well, we've got some grip-on-reality problems. There's maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it's definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it's as weird as this, it's pretty hard to take.
And here's him promoting his friend, Peter Sotos', chld pronography magazine:
The cover of PURE 2 is a guy holding open a toddler's puny hole so his spuzz can dribble out. The girl is past crying. She is destroyed. [...] Like I said, I like that sort of thing
Sotos later defended his use of child pornography in cout, stating "child abuse is a sublime pleasure"
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/12/06/100000-bond-in-child-pornography-case/
Albini also produced an album for Sotos called Buyer's Market, which Wikipedia describes as "sound collages of spoken word samples from parents, law-enforcement officers and victims of s*x crimes and pedophilia". When asked about his relationship with Sotos in a reddit AMA, this is what he had to say:
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Stevie was super in love with the word "neighbor" back in the day. Called Odd Future a bunch of neighbors, had a project band called Run Neighbor Run, wanted to name the second Big Black album Hey Neighbor. Speaking of things that lost their edge, after Steve's buddy Adam Parfrey passed, Parfrey's super duper edgy Feral House and Process Media that published Soto's books as well as Jim Goad's and Boyd Rice's stuff are now asking for material related to "the Black Foremothers of Rock and Roll", "Historic Latinx contributors to American social movements, film, and music", and "Female trailblazers to science, politics, social justice, and the arts."
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Thanks, that did it. That has officially killed my soul. Adam Parfrey was a real one
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