The Subb-stitution game

>> Stomp's latest acquisition tops the shopping list

By RUPERT BOTTENBERG

CDs aren't cheap, you know. Just think of all the stuff you could get for exactly the same price as a disc. With this in mind, the Mirror made a little list of neat things that cost about as much as a CD like, say, Until the Party Ends, the new album from Subb, the ska-punk-a-docious local quintet who are Stomp's latest signing. We then asked Subb to justify, item by item, making their disc a purchase priority.

A lovely bouquet of flowers for your girlfriend

"You don't have to cheat on your girlfriend to give her a Subb CD."

A day pass to Parc Safari and a bag o' snax for the baboons

"By buying our CD, you support and feed five baboons, and you don't have to spend an entire day at the zoo!"

A surf 'n' turf platter at your local Howard Johnson's

"Surf 'n' turf gives you bad breath. Our CD doesn't, unless you lick the entire booklet."

One of those wrapped-in-plastic Middle-aged Ladies With Huge Dugs porno mags

"Forget it. Buy our CD, listen to track #18 and go get some real porn--Shane's World, baby!"

A gram of weed

"Our CD is legal, weed is not. Don't do drugs!"

A Mozart CD. Any Mozart CD

"Do we really have to explain that?"

A toy robot that transforms from a zebra to a classy li'* sport coupe (with a rocket launcher)

"If that toy costs less than $15, tell us where to find it."

A nice, long session on the Psychic Hotline

"Those psychic ladies all have moustaches. We don't."

Desperately needed penicillin for a family of refugees in war torn Kosovo

"C'mon, give 'em the penicillin! They don't even have a radio!" :

CD launch with guests Flashlight, Naked 'n' Happy and Stinking Dogs at le Spectrum on Friday, March 3, $10, all ages