Since Philly has been stalled by 7586 inches of snow, Mischief Brew has put together a FREE/PAY WHAT YOU WANT demo/outtake/rough mix/rarities collection of their Bandcamp page! Check it out... the songs: 1. Busker's Wages (Acoustic Demo) 2. Dirty Penny's Pogo (Demo) 3. Bury Me In Analog (4-track Demo) 4. Thanks, Bastards! (Rough Mix) 5. All Our Comrades (Rough Mix) 6. The Lowly Carpenter (Acoustic Mix - Outtake) 7. Ten Thousand Fleas (4-track Demo) 8. Jobs In Steeltown (Early Solo Version - Outtake) 9. This Girl (Chumbawamba Cover - Acoustic Demo) 10. Three Chord Circus (Demo) 11. The Tardy Barker (Demo) 12. Pompous-Ass Manifesto (Demo) 13. The Barrel (Early Version - Outtake) 14. My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen Cover - Demo) 15. Goodbye Under God (Alternate Mix) 16. Punx Win! (Acoustic Demo) More info: First off, thanks for downloading and contributing to… whatever it is we do. We’ve been meaning to put something like this together for a while, but it involved going through a ton of CDR’s and sorting the bad from the…kind of bad. It took a snowday in the middle of one of the worst winters in Philadelphia history to pull the box out of the garage and pick out 16 tracks that we thought were worthwhile (curious, funny, interesting) enough to unleash. The fact that we live in an era where an album can be created out of thin air and spontaneously put online for free/pay-what-you-want, instantly reaching hundreds to thousands of people, should be enough to convince you that we live in the best era for independent music, maybe ever. Hopefully it goes without saying that this stuff isn’t for everybody. If it pops up on the shuffle setting on your iPod at a party, you’ll probably be met with a lot of “what the hell is this?” type questions. Yet I don’t think it’s necessarily for only diehard fans. In the middle ground, hopefully it provides a window into how our songs develop into the versions you know and love. It’s a long, arduous, at times sickly and cringe-worthy process. From the acoustic guitar in the living room to the 4-track, or the pre-production stage in the studio, to the early rough mix, to the final mastered versions, to the vinyl on your turntable, there’s a lot that goes into this crazy lifestyle that somehow keeps us jumping into a van in our mid-30s and traveling around the country, playing punk rock for you smelly bastards. We’ve said thank you a thousand times. Here’s another way of saying so. We hope you enjoy it, and laugh along with us at some of the early lyrics, the false starts, and the weird twists-and-turns that the songs nearly took. And yes, “Busker’s Wages” nearly name-dropped Pez. Thanks, bastards! -Erik. 2/13/2014
