Via William Caxton Fan Club, the marvelous Tumblr of author and Mountain Goats’ honcho John Darnielle (and if you’re not a Mountain Goats fan yet, you really need to get to work on that), here’s an evidently unique Psychic TV Zippo lighter. Finding an original source has proven difficult, but I like to imagine it was engraved by a gothy rogue employee at a Things Remembered in a sleepy midwestern mall. The inscription is a Psychic Cross logo with the epigram “Our aim is wakefulness. Our enemy is dreamless sleep,” a PTV slogan found in the liner notes of the live Temporary Temple LP.
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