It’s Like Bringing A Fork To A Gunfight

In 2010, Facebook’s “Pages” began becoming more and more prevalent on the internet. Like so many others, ThePunkSite.com also attempted to navigate the social media empire and started a page on the website.  Back then, Facebook offered Page owners much more flexibility and wasn’t charging for your content to show up in someone’s news feed. It was used the way it was meant to be, and fans got updates as they happened. Furthermore, Facebook allowed people to be much more creative with their pages, allowing creators to design and add new functions to their pages unique to them.

In an effort to recruit more “fans” on Facebook, ThePunkSite.com teamed up with six record labels (Paper + Plastick Records, Warbird Entertainment, Union Label Group, No Idea Records, Sailor’s Grave Records and Kind of Like Records) and several independent bands to release a thirty-five track digital compilation called It’s Like Bringing A Fork to a Gunfight. It was a free download that anyone could access if they “liked” us on Facebook.

The album featured bands from four different countries across two continents. It showcased some fantastic local bands from Edmonton alongside some of the brightest up and comers in the punk scene at the time. The extremely talented Keith Rosson – who was a contributor on the website at the time and has since gone on to write and publish four fantastic novels through Meerkat Press – did up the artwork and the songs were carefully selected to create a flow for the listener. After growing up on various compilation albums, putting one together was a massive highlight for Bobby Gorman and we hope to someday put together more.

Released in November of 2010, the album can still be downloaded here and you may as well still like us on Facebook because that was part of the intention of the album.