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.
Check out this 1984 PTV segment from the TV show “Earsay,” which includes some footage of the band’s intense and ritualistic live shows.