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These closed records are a product of the shame associated with adoption, as well as the desire of adopters to take the child "as if" the child was their own.
Sealed records and falsified birth certificates continue to plague the majority of natural parents and adopted adults, as both parties are statistically apt to seek a reunion later in life.
"The Open Record" was designed to promote activism toward abolishing the secret, sealed records system of adoption, and Carangelo always encouraged others to reproduce all or part of her publications in order to spread the message to a wider audience.
For this reason, the band was largely untouched until an AandR man named Jimmy Boyle saw them at a festival concert and signed them to Columbia Records.
In 1996, Thanks for the Ether was released, and afterwards Rasputina toured with such bands as Bob Mould, Porno for Pyros and Marilyn Manson.
As Rasputina toured and recorded, Creager and Kent took on other members for short periods of time.