Backstage Pass

Girl Talk (a.k.a. Gregg Gillis) finished his new album "Feed the Animals" earlier this week and he put it up on the website for his label Illegal Art this morning, available for download for whatever price people want to pay.

If you pay more than $10, you get a copy of the CD when it's released in September, access to the album as a single, uninterrupted file (the way Gillis would want you to hear it) and high-quality MP3 versions. For more than $5, you get the single file and all the MP3s.

Now the buzz of hearing 300 different samples in a little over 50 minutes is a bit dizzying, but "Feed the Animals" is as much fun as Gillis' breakthrough "Night Ripper" and, if nothing else, a great party trick. Who can resist the mix between Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and Nine Inch Nails' "March of the Pigs" on "Here's the Thing," which opens with Quad City DJs' "The Train" rapped over Chicago's "Saturday in the Park"?

PHOTO: Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" on Illegal Art