I've been checking out a debut album by a band who's introductory promo reads like this; "A strange brand of lighting fast political punk rock entertainment! Mixing the styles of bands like Frenzal Rhomb, Sonic Boom Six and Random Hand!"
The band are called Tape It Shut (https://www.facebook.com/TapeItShut) and they have members hailing from Reading and Manchester (Dan Tape - Guitar and Lead Vox, Kane Preston - Bass and Vox & Andrew Owens - Drums and Vox).
The album's titled Suspicious Package and to be fair to them, it's pretty much what I expected and what I was hoping for. It's a familiar sound done well and it's well worth checking out. 16 tracks, it's available physically from Cats Claw Records (UK) and Punk Rock Radar (US) https://linktr.ee/TapeItShut.
It's available Digitally on Bandcamp : https://tapeitshut.bandcamp.com/album/suspicious-package
I like how they give a brief summing up of the songs on Bandcamp. So here's what they say about the song I'm highlighting today;
We are witnessing a scary increase in people hoarding wealth and assets in order to charge people extortionate rates for access to everything from concert tickets to housing to drug patents. In countries like the USA, healthcare is commodified to such a level that many people can't afford even the most basic levels of medication and treatment, while profits are funnelled into the pockets of CEOs and directors and the rich get richer. These systems are parasitic and unethical, taking advantage of the desperation of the many to benefit the interests of the few.
This is Parasites Inc...
It's not investment you're a parasite
It's just a mark up keep the prices high
You're just a scalper hoarding supplies
We sing the rich stay rich for life
Landlords are charging arms and legs
They'll start with eyeballs next
For the roofs over our heads
Floorboards collapse with every step
Regulations ain't met
It couldn't even house the dead
It's what we've have come to expect
There's no quality left
Just greed and returns instead
Why not exploit others to death
As you raise the rent
You blood sucking insects
Strangle supply
Until you deny
Access to medicine that saves lives
We know why
Price is sky high
Choice is buy it or we die
It's not investment you're a parasite
It's just a mark up keep the prices high
You're just a scalper hoarding supplies
We sing the rich stay rich for life
It's not just investment while others have none
Your just hoarding shit just because
You'll make money on the long term
Oh the monsters you've become
The skin and the bone is being ripped from the flesh
We're bleeding out slow under the churn of business
Another conman with more money than sense
He'll buy out the blood banks without consequence
Treat drugs like assets not life saving cures
Treat property like cash not a place your secure
Create scarcity for profit we cannot ignore
Their worth is their money and nothing ever more
It's not investment you're a parasite
It's just a mark up keep the prices high
You're just a scalper hoarding supplies
We sing the rich stay rich for life
It's not just investment while others have none
Your just hoarding shit just because
You'll make money on the long term
Oh the monsters you've become
It's not investment
Your a parasite
It's not business
Your a parasite
It's not a hustle
Your a parasite
Oh the monsters you've become
Your not a landlord
Your a parasite
Your not a genius
Your a parasite
Your not human
Your a parasite
Oh the monsters you've become
It's just a mark up keep the prices high
You're just a scalper hoarding supplies
We sing the rich stay rich for life
Landlords are charging arms and legs
They'll start with eyeballs next
For the roofs over our heads
Floorboards collapse with every step
Regulations ain't met
It couldn't even house the dead
It's what we've have come to expect
There's no quality left
Just greed and returns instead
Why not exploit others to death
As you raise the rent
You blood sucking insects
Strangle supply
Until you deny
Access to medicine that saves lives
We know why
Price is sky high
Choice is buy it or we die
It's not investment you're a parasite
It's just a mark up keep the prices high
You're just a scalper hoarding supplies
We sing the rich stay rich for life
It's not just investment while others have none
Your just hoarding shit just because
You'll make money on the long term
Oh the monsters you've become
The skin and the bone is being ripped from the flesh
We're bleeding out slow under the churn of business
Another conman with more money than sense
He'll buy out the blood banks without consequence
Treat drugs like assets not life saving cures
Treat property like cash not a place your secure
Create scarcity for profit we cannot ignore
Their worth is their money and nothing ever more
It's not investment you're a parasite
It's just a mark up keep the prices high
You're just a scalper hoarding supplies
We sing the rich stay rich for life
It's not just investment while others have none
Your just hoarding shit just because
You'll make money on the long term
Oh the monsters you've become
It's not investment
Your a parasite
It's not business
Your a parasite
It's not a hustle
Your a parasite
Oh the monsters you've become
Your not a landlord
Your a parasite
Your not a genius
Your a parasite
Your not human
Your a parasite
Oh the monsters you've become
