Not all of the tastiest beats find their way to the mainstream. The superior vinyl format can be a luxury for bands still whipping up melodies in their basements or the back of local dives. For those road warriors, the cassette became the de facto format to spread their musical ideas.

The Intergalactic Two-Wheel Racing Circuit (ITWRC) is known mainly for its unforgiving final race across the harsh deserts of LV-427, a once prosperous and tropical planet in the Zeta Reticuli Galaxy. While there are technically 50 events throughout the Universal Year (including the delightful romps through both the water-dependent Hydrocity and the ICZ tundra), the Death Mint 4000 across LV-427 brings the masses to a halt.

The struggles of the members of The Cosmonauts have been documented before by the Intergalactic Beets Project. After escaping Earth's (Milk Way Galaxy) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ Space Program, where they were subjected to experimentation, torture, deprivation, and starvation, they discovered a planet teeming with like-minded (and similar-looking) creatures.