Rock$ by Title TK

ROCK$ is a non-auditory album that is available as a free download--just click "Buy Digital Album" and you will receive the 1 second of silence as an audio track and a PDF containing a transcription of a conversation the band members had in a recording studio, which is attached as a "bonus feature." The original album, which is now out of print, was a 12" gatefold album sleeve with the same conversation printed on a booklet inside.

About Title TK: It all started as a joke, during a three-way discussion of the overabundance of bands in the world these days: "We could go onstage and just talk about music, and say it was a band." But like most jokes, besides being funny it was also painfully true, and a pretty good idea: and so Title TK was born, in New York City, on a balmy May evening in 2010. Since then, the three amigos in the band have ambled onto stages near and far, electric guitars strapped to their chests yet never plugged in, fretboards never touched, seemingly transmogrified into mute observers of their owners' amplified banter, celebrity gossip, and breeze-shooting. Despite a stubborn refusal to accede to most of the conventional market expectations of a band (like actually playing music), Title TK has been terribly conscious of the fact that since they are a band, and they play gigs, they have to make a record. But how do you make a record when you don't play your instruments, or, in fact, allow any commercial release of an audio recording of your shows, or even your voice?

Rock$ is the answer to that particular riddle. It was recorded in a real studio--well, the lounge area of a real studio--and then transcribed (to Microsoft Word, rather than vinyl or CD) and carefully edited to radio-ready perfection. Then came the package: a booklet containing the transcript was fastened to a gatefold sleeve, a band logo was devised, credits assembled, photo sessions for both the studio's interior decor and TK's axes scheduled, and presto! The result is a debut album like no other, the only full-length record ever made where every "track" is "non-LP."

"Mostly inane"--The Oberlin Review

"Intermittently funny"--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"With Rock$, Title TK appeared [sic] to be indestructible." --allmusic.com
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Originally released on New Images, 2013

Title TK (Alan Licht, Howie Chen, Cory Arcangel) is a banter-only band.
Pioneers of "talk rock, the ultimate sub-genre, where the band format is retained but music-making is discarded in favor of conversation between the band members (mostly music-nerd discourse and celebrity gossip). All releases are non-audio but comes with a pdf of a transcribed conversation. RIYL: Spinal Tap