The Record Store Clerk EP The Record Store Clerk EP The Record Store Clerk Has Broken Your Heart Jacksonville Skyline [Whiskeytown] Where Is My Mind? [Pixies] Paco and I recorded these covers in the chapel after the band had finished recording the album. Both are songs we've been playing out for years, back when my roommate Brian and I used to have a weekly gig playing covers at the Holiday Inn bar.  Player Piano B-sides The Record Store Clerk Has Broken Your Heart (demo) My friend Mike says the early versions of this song sounded like a thinly-disguised Belle and Sebastian rip-off, and if you listen to this and then B&S's "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying" off of If You're Feeling Sinister, it's pretty clear he was right. I think the last thing I recorded was the loud octave guitar part which took the song away from its jangly-guitar-and-brass origins, and so it ended up making the cut.   An American Wake (demo) This is the other song that almost got left off because when it got time to record it, we still didn't know how it ended. Scott just played for a few minutes and we crossed our fingers and hoped we'd come up with something interesting. If Record Store Clerk was the Belle and Sebastian song, this version (one of several different approaches) was the Flogging Molly song. Marching Orders (demo) A Pixies-ish instrumental that never really got finished. We tried recording it at the end of the basic tracking sessions for Player Piano, but it didn't come together all the way. Get Me Away, I'm Dying [Belle and Sebastian] (acoustic) I recorded this by myself with one microphone (a Rode NT1-A, for the gearheads), on one track as part of an ongoing project I've been calling One Mic. It's probably mostly responsible for Record Store Clerk. So Yesterday [Hilary Duff] (acoustic) I heard the tail end of this song on the radio at work, became utterly obsessed by it, and was simultaneously intrigued and ashamed when I tracked it down and learned it was a Hilary Duff song. It was previously "released" on a couple of demo CDs that we gave out at a show. A Shining Example (demo) This song was my attempt to write something like "Free Fallin": harmonically simple and catchy. It wasn't ever catchy enough though, and it always ended up either sounding like Tom Petty or Peter Gabriel, depending on how we played it. This is the Peter Gabriel version.