Along with the more aggressive sound came a transition from a four-piece to a five-piece line-up, with bassist Preston Hetherington switching over to second guitar, and the band recruiting Ricky the Intern from the ‘Zero Skills Employment Agency’ (according to their bio) on bass. With last-minute addition Trey Robles (ex-Hard Feelings) on drums, the band toured the East Coast in Spring of 2005, hitting renowned punk-rock enclave CBGB in New York City , as well as recording a live broadcast for XM Satellite Radio at the invitation of Lou Brutus of the station’s Fungus 53 channel. Fungus 53 later named Broker’s Banquet one of the top 25 punk albums of 2005, and John Peel kicked off his BBC broadcast during SXSW 2005 with the Yuppie Pricks song, “Cherry Red”.
Along with the more aggressive sound came a transition from a
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