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Today I listen to American punk rock band, Yuppie Pricks perform Greed is Good from their 2008 album, Balls.


Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Greed Is Good
2:44 - My thoughts
6:02 - Who are the Yuppie Pricks?


Links
Original video:    • Greed Is Good  

Punk Rock playlist:    • Punk Rock  


The Yuppie Pricks are a five-piece punk rock band from Austin, Texas. They "deal in reverse psychology punk by ironically celebrating the materialist excesses of the upwardly mobile in songs like 'Greed Is Good', 'Fraternity Days', and 'Fuck You, I’m Rich', which are tinged with old school UK punk, Black Flag and Dead Kennedys touches."

Alternately described as "raucous, straight-ahead punk" and "American Psycho hardcore with a wicked sense of humor" the Yuppie Pricks are frequently lauded for their live performances, where they've been known to "wear John McEnroe-era tennis gear and denounce the 'service industry scum' who come to their shows."

And "while their music has much in common with the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols, their backgrounds and lyrics do not… they see their shows as punk PowerPoint presentations, though few sales meetings are as raunchy and cruel as YP shows, where the wretched losers who come to see them are peppered with abuse, lectured on the wonders of laissez-faire capitalism and showered with dollar bills."

Formed in 1999 by self-styled "pharmaceutical business magnate" Trevor Middleton and "third-generation divorce lawyer" Deuce Hollingsworth.

The album Balls was released in 2008 by Chicken Ranch Records. It was recorded at The Bubble Austin, Texas. The album was produced by Frenchie Smith and Mark Hutchins, the engineer was Computer Boy.

Greed is Good is track two on album, written by The Yuppie Pricks.

The Yuppie Pricks are
Trevor Middleton – vocals
Ricky Schniffschitz – bass
Nigel Smythen-Wesson – drums
Preston Hetherington - guitar
Deuce Hollingsworth - guitar


Lyrics
Prison population at an all time high
Private prison stock - meteoric rise
Whoever said that crime doesn't pay
Watch my portfolio grow as they rot away

Lunch is for wimps - there's money to be made
Greed is good
Gotta find more lemons for my lemonade
Greed is good
Squeeze every dollar from every deal
Greed is good
My glass is half empty - I'll take a refill

ATK up eight times since the war began
Why stop now Iraq looks just like Iran
What's another half million towelheads dead
Have to keep that stock out of the red

Corporate merger puts ten grand out of work
Stock triples up and doubles my net worth
Uncle Gekko's got to be so proud
Praying at the altar of the mighty Dow