Label

www.cheapskaterecords.com

297 Stoodley Place, Schenectady, NY 12303, USA

Cheapskate Records was really started back in 1996, which seems like so long ago. I started the label with a friend of mine and fellow band mate, under a different moniker, with the intent of releasing CDs or records for our own band. Like so many of my bands, we never really went anywhere but I still wanted to pursue the whole record label venture. In 1997 while attending Suny New Paltz I began putting together what would become our first release, The “How To Stretch A Dollar” compilation. I posted on a few websites, one being long time supporter Grub Records, that I was looking for bands to be on a compilation CD and I was amazed by the responses I got. I received so many demos that I had to turn a ton of them away – some of them were really bad but others were actually pretty good. I narrowed it down to 12 bands and then turned to Mike and Mya Park for the last band. Asian Man Records was nice enough to let me add The B. Lee Band (which is basically Less Than Jake with Mike Park singing) to the CD. Recent releases from The Nappies, The Sprains and The Grandprixx.