It may not be $789 billion, but newly employed as of today, I’ve already begun to help the struggling US economy by spending the money I haven’t yet started making. In my regular eBay carousing, I stumbled across two earthlings? Man’s Ruin promos (one for Human Beans and one for the self-titled) with the apparently irresistible price of $4.99 each — plus shipping, of course — and felt called to the patriotic duty of buying both. President Obama would want it that way.

But even if buying earthlings? and Human Beans didn’t make me a better American — and that’s not an admission that the whole jingo thing is just an excuse for spending money I don’t have, don’t get me wrong — I’m not sure if I would have been able to resist them anyway. Aside from having Pete Stahl (Goatsnake) crooning away on vocals, there’s Fred Frake (co-owner of Rancho de la Luna), Scott Reeder (Kyuss, Goatsnake), Josh Homme (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age) and a ton of other people playing on these records. Who could say no?

Plus, these are the promos, as in “not for sale,” which means that while this dude can get away with charging $30 for the self-titled alone, that album was in a store somewhere. The promo never was. Much rarer at a fraction of the price. I’d be a fool not to buy it!

And the other one too. I’d be a fool not to buy both of them.

After the jump you can read the awesome promo labels from both albums. Hail the desert and writers of witty band biographies. Also be sure to check out the earthlings? site, because they have a new EP for sale.

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