In his glowing endorsement of Peter Soto's PURE magazine, a child pornography zine which got Sotos convicted of possessing and distributing CP, Albini praises PURE for it's punk rock ethos and speaks warmly of Sotos. Albini also goes on to express his own pleasure at the content of the 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
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https://i.imgur.com/Gm7otzo.jpgFrom the European Big Black tour diary, Albini recounts his enjoyment of the child pornography magazines he found in a sex shop 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.
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https://i.imgur.com/9obDb08.jpgFurther elaboration on Albini's friendship with Sotos and his own child pornography conviction:
Sotos defending his distribution of child pornography in court, stating "child abuse is a sublime pleasure:
https://i.imgur.com/UCn5NFB.pngAlbini praising Sotos' "art" and his friendship with the convicted child pornographer:
https://i.imgur.com/WLQb5ke.pngAlbini also helped Sotos produce Buyers Market, a unauthorized collection of court testimonies and police interviews from child rape victims.
