Refrigerator (demo)

Refrigerator is cassette by Marilyn Manson. Actually untitled, the tape is usually referred to as Refrigerator because of its artwork, which resembles a fridge door.

Track listing

Side One: live tracks recorded on WYNF's 'Radio Clash', taken from the tape Live As Hell

  1. "Cake and Sodomy"
  2. "[...] Snowman"
  3. "My Monkey"
  4. "Lunchbox"

Side Two: 4-track recordings past and present, recorded and mixed by D. Berkowitz

  1. "Thrift"
  2. "Filth"
  3. "Wrapped In Plastic"
  4. "Dope Hat"

Credits

  • Gidget Gein, bass guitar
  • Daisy Berkowitz, guitar, drum programming
  • Sara Lee Lucas, drums, drum programming
  • Madonna Wayne Gacy, sampler, keyboard
  • M. Manson, vocals
  • Loree Weirdo - band photo
  • Christopher - hair
  • Donovan - tattoos
  • Kurt Moody - live crew
  • Anton - live crew
  • Jeremy Staska - live sound
  • Arleen - merchandise
  • Melissa "Missi" Romero - merchandise
  • Jessicka - merchandise

Other information

Refrigerator was Marilyn Manson's final self-produced release. The cassette was limited to 100 copies, each of which contained one of five different pieces of "refrigerator artwork" drawn by a member of the band. The tape itself came in a cassette case with an insert decorated like the door of a refrigerator, which could be "opened" revealing the tape inside.

Each copy of Refrigerator was hand-numbered and in addition to the artwork and credits also contained the following letter from Mr. Manson:

"Spread me open, stuck to my ribs, are all your infants in abortion cribs. Disease, disease is draining me; anymore it's not so "pretty please." Satan is a glass of milk and a bedtime story that mommy and daddy jesus scare babies into submission with. Fascism spreads its cancerous tendrils into the soft guts of bible-belt-wearing white trash, organizing their lives around old testament cartoon characters. We [...] each other with hatred and kill the things we love. We scapegoat the things we don't understand. 13-year-olds, dirty and swollen, are sold into a porno-nation, sedated and devoured by their fathers. With its rabbit-ears smugly erect, the t.v. talks in hard-ons and acne medicine, while a boy dreams of stardom and lives in fear of failure. Denial leads to addiction that leads to denial. Sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise. Who ever said tricks were for kids? Do you want to see me pull a rabbit (monkey) out of my hat (back)? I have never pretended to be anything but an [...]. I am what you make me. I'm everything you hate and all you think of being. I am nothing but your fear. And a fear of something will only call it near; in the end only fear is here. Our substance-abusing, sexually-deviant, devil-worshiping children are not the "problem." They (we) are merely a symptom of Christian America, the biggest Satan of all.

Save yourself (me),

M. Manson."