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Title: Stick to Your Day Job
Review: After previewing this album, I know exactly how it came to be. Just imagine a high school kid, 16, maybe 17, walking into a recording studio with the idea for a great concept album. He has just enough cash in his pocket to make 2 songs and pages and pages of actual notesheets for the songs. After failing miserably to describe the meaning of this concept album well enough to sound good, he tells the producer "fine, I'll make it myself". So with the $500 cash, he heads off to Goodwill and buys whatever music-making devices he can find. He sets it all up in his parents' basement, covering the window with a black cloth and starting up a fog machine for "atmosphere". He borrows one of those big, clumsy tape recorders from his school and records it all over a copy of his little sister's symphonic band recital. His dad, a janitor in the Mystic Guardian Records offices, sneaks in after hours and fires up the CD burner, converting his son's tape into what we have here.
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