Creeper Lagoon Where Are You?!

Yo yo yo,

I've been hunting for new good tunes lately, and I started to think back about groups that I used to dig that I haven't heard anything from recently (Toadies, For Squirrels, Helium, anyone?).  This thinking led me to look up Creeper Lagoon, a band that I accidently "discovered" ten or so years ago by winning a radio contest.  I don't remember what the contest was, probably something to do with being the 10th caller or something along those lines, and while I don't remember what I won (a Green Day CD?) I do remember that a Creeper Lagoon EP was part of the deal.  The five or so tracks didn't have a lot of production value however I was hooked and ended up buying later albums.  I remember thinking that these guys would hit it big.  Sometimes quirky but always catchy, what more could you want.  

Anyway, they don't appear to be up to much these days and last put out an album (Long Dry Cold) in 2006 according to their myspace page.  The samples on the page are worth checking out, and you can buy the entire album for a whopping $1.19.  According to Creeper Lagoon, this pricing is meant to show "...solidarity with Jammie Thomas who was charged $9250 per song by the RIAA..."  If you don't know, Jammie Thomas was the only person to fight the recording industry in court because of their questionable tactics of suing file-sharing people, even when the person is only identified by their IP address.  She lost her suit and ended up owing the recording industry more than $200,000.  While I don't know how selling an album for 9 cents a track helps anything, I do know that I enjoy great music (and not paying a lot for it).  Anyway, check them out on myspace or at their label site, www.neglectra.com  (By the way, I really like the Sly Doc material that can be found at the neglectra site.  Good background/soundtrack music!)

If you want to read a somewhat depressing interview (I'm guessing from 2002?) with the main guy of Creeper Lagoon, you can find one at inmusicwetrust.com/articles/57h01.html

A write-up of Long Dry Cold is linked below.

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