PHOTOSYNTHESIZER

While the album, the band, and the store that inspired it were all named Fungus Emporium, the idea to honor the curio shop located in the Milky Way Galaxy (just outside Saturn) was purely accidental. After taking their tour shuttle for a bit of a joy ride (they, in fact, were being chased by angry venue purveyors), the members of Dyrt accidentally crashed into the humble store. Nearly their entire inventory ended up plowing through the windshield of the vessel, costing them and Ramm Mush, the owner, millions of Space Bucks. In order to work off the debt to Fungus Emporium, and the previous venues they also almost destroyed, Dyrt changed their name to Fungus Emporium and were commissioned to make an album that could be sold at the counter once the shop was able to reopen. Though they never saw a Space Buck from the whole ordeal, the album went on to make Mr. Mush so wealthy that he dissolved the store (literally, by heat ray) and retired to what was then known as Miami Beach II.