nice work by these guys...

Defying the conventional logic that a band will do infinitely better if it has a record deal, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are proving that a truly independent artist can gain a major following. Clap -- based in Brooklyn and Philadelphia -- have already sold nearly 17,000 copies of their self-released debut, all thanks to word of mouth. And while major-label artists make only about a buck a record, the Clap guys are making a whopping eight dollars per disc -- putting their take so far at more than $130,000. Not too shabby for an album recorded for less than ten grand and distributed by the band itself via countless trips to the post office.