
Let's go back 10 years ago. I was a bored punk kid in his senior year of high school, and I just needed to get out of my suburban NJ house for the day... I hopped into my car, and drove out to wherever just to kill some time. I wound up near a mall, and decided I needed some new music since I forgot all my CDs. I go into whatever lame music store (it was probably a Hot Topic...) and check their discount bin. There I saw it for 3 dollars: Asian Man Records "Mail Order Is Fun!" [...]
My new daughter, Teagan Reese, was born a week ago today and that day also happened to be exactly 4 years from my first post on this blog. During the 4 years that CYSTSFTS has been in existence, I've made my affinity for pop punk no secret. It's the music I grew up listening to and the music that keeps me young at heart. There are many different definitions of what exactly pop punk is and with this series of 30 or so posts I'll do my best to broadly define (in MP3's) [...]

O kay folks. This may be the series finale. I think I've busted out just about every pop punk-ish band that I can think of. If you have more suggestions, let me know. Grubbs, the Discount song is for you. You can fins all the posts in their entirety via the links below. Vol. 11 , Vol. 11 , Vol. 10 , Vol. 9 , Vol. 8 , Vol. 7 , Vol. 6 , Vol. 5 , Vol. 4 , Vol. 3 , [...]