In another move of astonishing foresight (especially for a near-scoundrel of a label), Go-Kart records announced the Go-Kart MP3 Raceway, a compilation of 300 MP3s on two CDs for $9.99. For a full press release and band listing, follow the details.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GO-KART RECORDS is one of New York's longest running outlets for independent music. Since 1994, we have brought bands like ANTI-FLAG, THE LUNACHICKS, BUZZCOCKS, TOXIC NARCOTIC and many more to the forefront of the punk scene. Now, continuing our long history of bucking trends and blazing trails, we are very proud to announce the release of the GO-KART MP300 RACEWAY this November 4th. Not only is this an awesome compilation CD with 300 songs (yes, 300 songs!) from 150 bands, it's also the FIRST EVER commercially sold MP3 CD.

Again, that's 300 songs from 150 bands (all CD quality MP3s) on two CDs for only $9.99!

The story behind the MP300: As reported by IDG (International Data Group), "MP3" has replaced the term "sex" as the most popular search category on the Internet. This reinforces the importance MP3 technology has acquired in recent years, especially since file sharing and p2p (peer to peer) websites like Napster opened up a new direction in music distribution. By reacting with raised CD prices instead of seizing the opportunities offered by new technologies, the music business has largely slept through the digital music revolution. Rather than blame declining sales on piracy like the rest of the music industry has done, Go-Kart has decided to exploit the situation to its fullest potential. The music industry's future lies in new technologies like MP3s, and it's about time that musicians and record labels began looking forward instead of just trying to cover their own collective behinds!

The GO-KART MP300 RACEWAY symbolizes more than just an adaptation to the changes in technology and consumers' demands. For us, it represents the freedom to develop music without the constraints of the music industry establishment. The relationship between artist and consumer MUST be more interactive, independent, and rewarding for everyone involved. Outmoded definitions of profit and success should no longer get in the way of music that deserves to be heard by the people that want to hear it!

With the GO-KART MP300 RACEWAY, we have availed ourselves of the advances in hardware and software to promote these one hundred and fifty artists and their music more effectively. The CD features music of many different styles within the punk & hardcore genres. With this new compilation at the special price of $9.99, music fans have the opportunity to explore many different bands, including well-known artists like ANTI-FLAG, BOUNCING SOULS, AVAIL, SICK OF IT All, DAG NASTY, SHAI HULUD, and THE MOVIELIFE, as well as new and underground groups such as THE SPADES, VIRUS NINE, and THE A.K.A.S!

The GO-KART MP300 RACEWAY is an interactive, enhanced double CD with a virtual MP3 player that allows listeners to gather further band information (including links to the labels' and artists' websites) on their computer. We've also included info sheets on how to burn these MP3s to an audio CD!

This double CD will not play in older CD players. It will, however, play in CD-MP3 players, which are becoming more and more common. Of course, it works perfectly in a computer, too!

Why spend hours online searching for and downloading songs? Now you check out 150 bands you may or may not have heard of, saving yourself a lot of time, money, and aggravation! The GO-KART MP300 RACEWAY is the fast track to new music!

Here is the complete song list of the GO-KART MP300 RACEWAY:

CD1:

1. 46 Short - Positively Negative
2. 46 Short - Numb
3. 4 Ft. Fingers - Burn The Bridges
4. 4 Ft. Fingers - Bright Side
5. Against Me! - Pints Of Guinness
6. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
7. A Global Threat - Social Quarantine
8. A Global Threat - Cardinal Sin
9. All Systems Go - Tell Vicky
10. All Systems Go - Fascination Unknown
11. Alli With An I - Don't Look Down
12. Alli With An I - For Future Reference
13. Allister - Somewhere On The Fullerton
14. Allister - Overrated
15. Amazombies - Thumb War
16. Amazombies - At The Bar
17. American Distress - Fraudulent Times
18. American Distress - American Distress
19. Anatomy Of A Ghost - On To Morning Stars
20. Anatomy Of A Ghost - Streetlights Empty Wells
21. Anti Flag - Right To Choose
22. Anti Flag - No Bloodthirsty Corporations
23. Antifreeze - Dialogue
24. Antifreeze - Life's Little Details
25. Audio Karate - Nintendo '89
26. Audio Karate - Halfway Decent
27. August Premiere - Fall
28. August Premiere - Tuckered Out
29. Avail - Taken
30. Avail - Black And Red
31. Baal - Prize Fighter
32. Baal - Look At Me
33. Backslide - Tell Me A Lie
34. Backslide - Burn Your Flags
35. Backwood Creatures - Back To You
36. Backwood Creatures - No. 1
37. Bantam - Come Undone
38. Bantam - Waiting For Rescue
39. Bouncing Souls - Neurotic
40. Bouncing Souls - The Ballad Of Johnny X
41. Brazil - Monolithic
42. Brazil - Erasure
43. Capture The Flag - It's Over
44. Capture The Flag - Anti-Gravity Club
45. Celebrity Murders - Grey On Beige
46. Celebrity Murders - Not One Of Us
47. Choke - Framed In Poor Light
48. Choke - Every Word
49. Circle - Phonography
50. Circle - Razorblades
51. Combatwoundedveteran - My Spine
52. Combatwoundedveteran - 15 Minutes
53. Cougars - She Can Wear Gold
54. Cougars - Dukes A Champ
55. Crash And Burn - I Love Trash
56. Crash And Burn - Crash And Burn
57. Creation Is Crucifixion - Gameboy
58. Creation Is Crucifixion - Die Slowly
59. Dag Nasty - Twisted Again
60. Dag Nasty - Ghosts
61. Darkest Hour - The Sadist Nation
62. Darkest Hour - Oklahoma
63. Darlington - Chelsea
64. Darlington - Croatian Cutie
65. Daycare Swindlers - Holy Suicide
66. Daycare Swindlers - Long Hard Road
67. DEK - Captain Pickle
68. DEK - Monsters Crash The Party
69. Divit - Driver
70. Divit - Slow Forward Motion
71. Don't Look Down - Undone
72. Don't Look Down - Wake Me
73. Elliott - Believe
74. Elliott - Song In The Air
75. Face Tomorrow - Me
76. Face Tomorrow - Worth The Wait
77. Fifth Hour Hero - Cut Me Dead
78. Fifth Hour Hero - Everything
79. Fleshies - Maelstrom Of Whirling Bullshit
80. Fleshies - No One
81. Four Square - Hitmaker
82. Four Square - Mistreated
83. Freya - As The Last Light Drains
84. Freya - Resuscitate
85. Garrison - Come On Die Young
86. Garrison - Let's Fight
87. Gash - Contract Job
88. Gash - Skinny Together
89. GBH - Falling Down
90. GBH - Song For Cathy
91. Good Riddance - Made To Be Broken
92. Good Riddance - There's No I In Team
93. Grabass Charlestons - Beer
94. Grabass Charlestons - Bossman
95. Groovie Ghoulies - Chupacabras
96. Groovie Ghoulies - Hats Off To You (Godzilla)
97. Guff - Rejected
98. Guff - Superspecial
99. Gunmoll - Forget Me Not
100. Gunmoll - Less Than You Hoped For
101. Happy Campers - I Finally Wrote A Love Song
102. Happy Campers - Wave The Flags
103. Hard Ons - Scared Of It All
104. Hard Ons - Sunny
105. Haymarket Riot - Grand Canyon (live)
106. Haymarket Riot - Placid
107. I Defy - Hold True
108. I Defy - The Firing Line
109. I Farm - If I Ran A Zoo
110. I Farm - Puzzlement
111. Icons Of Filth - Just Won't Go
112. Icons Of Filth - Riddled With Guilt
113. Intro5pect - Education
114. Intro5pect - No More Time
115. Jett Brando - Heavy Rotation
116. Jett Brando - Yellow
117. Junction 18 - Dissonant Me
118. Junction 18 - Life Is A Racetrack
119. Justin Sane - 61C Days Turned To Nights
120. Justin Sane - We Found A Place
121. Kill Your Idols - Nameless
122. Kill Your Idols - Hardcore Circa 2003
123. King Prawn - Bring Down The House
124. King Prawn - If Dawn Comes We Ride
125. Last Days Of April - All Will Break
126. Last Days Of April - Playerin
127. LLynch - Vertigo
128. LLynch - Betty As The Lighter
129. Logh - The Contractor And The Assassin
130. Logh - The Raging Sun
131. Lost City Angels - Edge Of 21
132. Lost City Angels - If You Go
133. Lunachicks - Cumming Into My Own
134. Lunachicks - I'll Be The One
135. Maverick - Trust
136. Maverick - West Palm Beach
137. Methadones - Accident Waiting To Happen
138. Methadones - Say Goodbye To Your Generation
139. Midnight Creeps - Mugshot
140. Midnight Creeps - Nitetime Nasty
141. Most Precious Blood - Apparition
142. Most Precious Blood - Less Than Zero
143. Motormuschi - Eden
144. Motormuschi - I Hate Musick
145. Mr. Zippy - New Beginnings
146. Mr. Zippy - You Ain't Gonna Believe
147. None More Black - Banned From Tee
148. None More Black - Dinner's For Suckers
149. Northstar - Broken Parachute
150. Northstar - Rigged And Ready

CD2:

1. Over My Dead Body - Anchors Aweigh
2. Over My Dead Body - Dead Alive
3. Parasites - Burnt Toast
4. Parasites - Something To Hold Onto
5. Pipedown - Risin' Up
6. Pipedown - The Dark
7. Pitch Black - Spotlight
8. Pitch Black - The Wrath
9. Plain White T's - Fireworks
10. Plain White T's - Please Don't Do This
11. Plan A Project - Jim Crow
12. Plan A Project - Confrontation 101
13. Planes Mistaken For Stars - Earning Ire
14. Planes Mistaken For Stars - Leveless
15. Pseudo Heroes - Here Is Nowhere
16. Pseudo Heroes - Lonely Guy
17. Punchline - Play
18. Punchline - Rewind
19. Razor Crusade - Fountainhead
20. Razor Crusade - Team Therapy
21. Red Rover - Myth Rock
22. Red Rover - Scream Machine
23. Revolution Summer - Some Song 1
24. Revolution Summer - Some Song 2
25. Riding Bikes - Distance
26. Riding Bikes - This Family
27. Rise Against - Heaven Knows
28. Rise Against - 1000 Good Intentions
29. Robocop Kraus - Fashion
30. Robocop Kraus - The Dead Serious
31. Rock Kills Kid - Be There
32. Rock Kills Kid - Dream
33. Roustabouts - Heart Is Gone
34. Roustabouts - This Town
35. RX Bandits - Overcome (There Capitulation)
36. RX Bandits - Sell You Beautiful
37. Satanic Surfers - State Of Conformity
38. Satanic Surfers - Thoughts Words Action
39. Saving Face -One Brite Star
40. Saving Face - Yours
41. Selfmademan - Quid Pro Quo
42. Selfmademan - Who Will Sing To This
43. Senses Fail - Free Fall Without A Parachute
44. Senses Fail - One Eight Seven
45. Shai Hulud - This Song For The True And Passionate Lovers Of Music
46. Shai Hulud - Two and Twenty Misfortunes
47. Sick Of It All - District
48. Sick Of It All - Relentless
49. Silverstein - Giving Up
50. Silverstein - Smashed Into Pieces
51. Sixty Stories - It's So Touching
52. Sixty Stories - Less Of Me
53. Small Brown Bike - This Ship
54. Small Brown Bike - Trains All Talk
55. Snuff - Boatnick
56. Snuff - The Other Half Of You
57. Solea - Even Stranger Days
58. Solea - Frankie Machine
59. Somehow Hollow - Kamloops
60. Somehow Hollow - The Witch Of Glen Cedar Gate
61. Sonic Dolls - Angry Dolls
62. Sonic Dolls - Don't Come Around
63. Spitalfield - I Loved The Way She Said L.A.
64. Spitalfield - Stolen From Some Great Writer
65. Star Strangled Bastards - We Will End Your Life
66. Star Strangled Bastards - Whose War Is It?
67. Steel Train - Angelica
68. Steel Train - Blown Away
69. Sullen - Strawberry Blonde
70. Sullen - War Forges On
71. Tabula Rasa - Are We In Our Nations Capitol
72. Tabula Rasa - More Words Than Not
73. Teen Idols - Backstabber
74. Teen Idols - Turning The Tide
75. The A.K.A.'s - Generation Vexed
76. The A.K.A.'s - Matchbook Poets
77. The Apers - Brand New Day
78. The Apers - Please Don't Change
79. The Arsons - Let It Go
80. The Arsons - Whole Life Crisis
81. The Control - Autofocus
82. The Control - Head And Shoulders
83. The Damn Personals - Coast To Coast
84. The Damn Personals - Fucking In NYC
85. The Early November - Every Nights Another Story
86. The Early November - I Want To Hear You Sad
87. The Enemies - Broken
88. The Enemies - Through Jaded Eyes
89. The Escape Engine - Lesson In Futility
90. The Escape Engine - This Jagged Alibi
91. The Explosion - Original Thought
92. The Explosion - Sick Of Modern Art
93. The Faux - Instrumental
94. The Faux - Synthetic Heart
95. The Gadjits - Black Guitar Kalashnikov
96. The Gadjits - Sixty-Eight Gold
97. The GC5 - Sheep In Wolf's Clothing
98. The GC5 - Sparkling Streets
99. The Ghost - Diffuser
100. The Ghost - Groundswell
101. The God Awfuls - Disconnected Youth
102. The God Awfuls - No Angels
103. The HollowPoints - Rottin' In My Cell
104. The HollowPoints - Tonight You're Gonna Die
105. The Kinison - Hey Hey Hey
106. The Kinison - Sorry, I'm A Pushover
107. The Lawrence Arms - Right As Rain (Part 2)
108. The Lawrence Arms - On With The Show
109. The Movielife - Face Or Kneecaps
110. The Movielife - Jamestown
111. The N.Y. Rel-X - Paranoia
112. The N.Y. Rel-X - Third World
113. The Oranges Band - Finns For Our Feet
114. The Oranges Band - Ok Apartment
115. The Popsters - Another Girl
116. The Popsters - Every Minute
117. The Profits - Profits Over People
118. The Profits - Secret Cities, Secret Armies
119. The Promise - Pity For None
120. The Promise - The Kiss Off
121. The Remedy Session - Rescue
122. The Remedy Session - Starting Over
123. The Shemps - Blind Date
124. The Shemps - Treat Her Right
125. The Spades - Hit And Run
126. The Spades - Who's The Man?
127. The Suicide File - Laramie
128. The Suicide File - Twilight
129. The Vandals - 0233 Remix
130. The Vandals - We'll All Get Laid
131. Thought Riot - Black Atch
132. Thought Riot - Save The Humans
133. Tiny Elvis - Hell Is Other People
134. Tiny Elvis - Ruined Beauty
135. Tommy And The Terrors - All Night Long
136. Tommy And The Terrors - Ripoff
137. Toxic Narcotic - Cockroach
138. Toxic Narcotic - We're All Doomed
139. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Everything Is Winding Down
140. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Run Idiot Run
141. T.S.O.L. - Again
142. T.S.O.L. - Serious
143. Two Man Advantage - New Season
144. Two Man Advantage - Hot Rod GTO
145. Up Syndrome - My Kung Fu Is Your Meth
146. Up Syndrome - The Textbook Of Your Life
147. Virus Nine - Perfect Place
148. Virus Nine - Scars And Stripes
149. Zombina And The Skeletons - Nobody Likes You
150. Zombina And The Skeletons - The Grave And Beyond