Here's a great idea. Compact discs were all the rage, vinyl was dying it's slow death, and the only way to record and playback music or not worry about damaging/having stolen your CD collection was, the glorious tape cassette. This little device rocked my car for many hours and kept my "Kneedeep In The Hoopla Is The S*IT" recording off the radio music tastes rolling.  A few years later, I had a dealer. My friend Bill has his CD store and he had access to wholesalers that could get imports.   He came across this. I spent my didn't have money on it.  What is it? Why did I buy something that I've kept wrapped? Why did I buy the special edition "Unfinished" version of Beauty And The Beast on LASERDISC for $100 and proceeded to watch it only 3 times? WHY? WHY?

..for ART man. Yeah. That's it. Story is, Mark Mothersbaugh is one of the front man of a tiny little band from Akron, Ohio that nobody has heard of called DEVO. In the late 80's to early 90's DEVO wasn't all that. They were yesterday's bunny bitch. Tossed away from the brothers Warner as Devo's final album from the original line up, "Shout", landed like a drunken binge turd in a jail toilet.  "No No Devo".

So what was Marky to do? Cartoon soundtracks. He formed "Mutato Music" and was taking calls from the knuckleheads at NICK and douches at Dipsney and suddenly everyone was bopping to the solo sounds of "O Soy" or whatever the track was. We all bounced to the soundtrack of the Howie Mandel vehicle with the fat kid that talked like a baby and his exploits. This was hot rockin DEVO Non Gratis music. I bought into it. I bought two CD's volumes called "Musik For Insomniaks"  I'll admit to listening to them a whopping TWICE, but you know, they were music by the guy in DEVO! I mean, come on! I liked the disc of "Muzak" versions of Devo hits that was released earlier. Used a track or two for my crappy morning show.  Yes, being in radio, these were good songs for background musiK. Our parody of PeeWee's Playhouse would have been less good had we not had access to finer hits like "Xp137". (We did it for Under The Shelf and it was called Pewet's Outhouse and the secret word was "BLOW*OB" AHHHHHHHHHHHH!)

Ahhh, very good Mr. Fat Hanz (TM) Show that I didn't open this to this day. I thought maybe I'd get my money back tenfold. You can look around on the intrawebs to see what the inside contains. You get the tape in cheesy ABS Gold, recorded on a Certron (TM) cassette. (See the orange swoop on the page? It's genuine Certron. Any nudnik that had a tape recorder in the 70's and 80's know this was the best of the worst, the cream of the crap, the 3 for $1 tape choice because we were kids. We had that quarter for allowance. ) There was also a deck of cards with pictures of the DEVO guy holding up his artwork. Japanese folk ate this crap up. Right? It was imported for poot heads that thought they were cool. It's the golden turd in my junk. But hey, it's worth MUCH. Accepting offers, minimum bid, ONE MEELION DOLLARS.

Of course, Devo came back in the 90's and MarkiePOO did the soundtrack to "The Shaggy Dog" (TV Version with the Whoa! Kid and Ed Begley Jr. and the chick who schtupped the fat guy on NYPD Blue.) I even got to see them live at Peabodys. A venue for bands going up, on the way down, or just gasping for air trying to make a buck. A few weeks earlier a then little known band called "Warrant" was opening for other hair metal bands. A scant 4 months later, they ate all the CHERRY PIE they could eat.  Meanwhile this tape and cards skyrocketed in value. Hahahahahahhahhahhahh *cough* Junk Blog.

-Ric