It's A Gosh Darn Crypts Party!

Right before I left Virginia for Grad School, I recorded an album of Garage Rock with some of my best friends. Our group is called the Crypts. We don't do any of it for profit, it's just really wonderful to go into a room together and end up with a song 30 minutes later. So we did that for about half a year, playing originals (revolve around the subjects of monsters, food, and comic books). We also played some of our favorite cover songs(The Ninja Turtles theme for example). Played a few bars here and there. Just had a ball really. The album was recorded in 4 hours, all the takes are live. I'm the one screaming.



So in the past year, I've been reading so much about Creative Commons licenses and Copyright. This can be attributed to classes like Understanding Information and Copyright/Fair Use. By posting this album to archive.org's Community Audio, it really feels like I'm contributing to a larger discourse. Punk Music Producer Steve Albini, when asked about the state of musical production in the wake of this post-file sharing decade, compared the music industry to Tennis. I'm paraphrasing here, but basically you have a lot of people who play tennis for fun, and then you have an extreme minority who make a living off of the activity. I play tennis for fun and I play music for fun. Welcome to the future. The rest of that interview (from the excellent show The Sound of Young America) is below.


The Sound of Young America: Steve Albini


So here's an example of tennis for fun. The name of this album is "It's A Gosh Darn Crypts Party!" You can hear it all by clicking on the player underneath those snakes and you can download it here!

Hope you like it.




Music by the Crypts, Illustrations by Mike and Kristin Tschirn.