Sometimes We Impress Even Ourselves

Here Comes The Flood: "Balls is album to be played at top volume to scare the shit out of the dorks down the hall. Housed in a sleeve that is a belated answer to the Black Crowes' Amorica it deserves top billing on this year's list of best punk albums. Punk is not dead, it just changed its wardrobe."

Left Hip Magazine: "A bizarre 180˚ spin on classic punk rock values, the Yuppie Pricks apparently are very rich – one member alone is worth 30 million dollars courtesy of the pharmaceutical industry. Within the confines of a cookie-cutter classic punk/hardcore sound they sing about being rich and all the trappings that lie therein. With snide songs like “Greed Is Good”, “Fraternity Days” and “Fuck You, I'm Rich” the band ostensibly aims to wrong all that is right with the world in typical Republican fashion. There is something highly amusing going on here, perhaps a bit of Brechtian alienation effect. My suggestion is that you steal this record. Do we really want to put any more money in these bastards pockets?"

Hard Rock Chick, Myspace Find: "Yes, it’s crass, but that’s what punk is supposed to be, it’s the Yuppie Pricks. It starts with the album cover, a banana hammock of patriotic proportions, to the album name: ‘Balls’, to the song titles- 'Fuck You I’m Rich'. This is exactly the kind of bizarro concoction of a band that I miss from Austin."

Riverfront Times, MP3 Monday: "Delightfully rude, snotty, loud, fast punk rock. RIYL Riverboat Gamblers and its ilk."

Parasites and Sychophants: "If nothing else, Yuppie Pricks new album Balls, merits some attention for having such an odd approach of embracing decadence, selling out, and whatever else is supposedly banned by the consciousness police.

The music blasts out like some forgotten eighties west coast punk, capped off by a nasally snarl somewhere in line with Jello Biafra, who once courted the band. No doubt, one should also expect a little laughter while listening to talk of frat boys doing their brothers over the fence, Al Gore inventing the internet before he became a climatologist, portfolio scores, and the GOP.

Fun times to enjoy and call home, while pondering how full of shit most of us are anyway with our highfalutin ideas."