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Yes! I lived well outside the law in many ways for nearly 2 decades. At my peak, I was a smuggler, operating a multi-million dollar marijuana campaign with a small plane regularly flying across the country. Until one day, the Feds caught on. In 2019 I was sentenced to nearly 5 years of Federal prison and lost everything.

Before all that, in 2003 I founded the DIY Bandits, a collective of renegades, artists, weirdos, working class folk, runaways & dreamers. We were hellbent on stealing back the pieces of our lives we lost to the job market & consumer culture. Petty theft, squats, trespassing, graffiti, general mayhem & other illegal activity was a common occurrence for us. Over time the DIY Bandits morphed into an underground record label that operated well outside industry norms.

Nowadays I’m more likely to be sharing my wild stories around a campfire with my kids or friends rather than actively living a life of such reckless abandon as I did in my past. But I promise, I will always remain a Bandit at heart. 

Three Reasons:

1: This is my attempt to build life after incarceration. You would be directly supporting my efforts & contributing to a positive comeback story. Sometimes you should root for the underdog!

2: A portion of every sale directly supports the independent, DIY music community around the country.

3: We have damn good coffee (you can read more about this in the coffee section below).

I served Federal time (not state) & was sent to a Federal prison camp. You can hear about some of my experience on my podcast Back On The Grind. 

If you or someone you know is going to prison, I would be glad to talk to you about the experience under one condition – you must be interested in taking responsibility for doing the work you can to create the best possible outcome for yourself. If your plan is to go to prison, sit in the TV room all day, get high, sleep your bid away, gamble & stuff like that, it's fine with me, but I don't think I will have much to offer you. If you're serious about making use of resources for yourself, you can reach out through our contact page & we can talk.

Nope. Not even when I had an airplane full of it. In fact, I haven't smoked weed since I was a teenager. If you do (or don't), it's fine with me. I have friends who smoke & friends who don't. All I can say for me personally is; years ago I realized the awesome things friends & I accomplished & the things I am proud of doing most, usually happened when I was/we were sober. That way of life seems to work well, at least for me.