MP3 of the Week: Personal Finance "Fact Addict," live 01.23.12 @ ZuZu

There’s a lost passage in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho where Patrick Bateman, dining at a highly coveted table at Dorsia, reflects on his wasted time spent in an artsy post-punk band while still attending Phillips Exeter Academy in the late ’70s. Actually, okay, that doesn’t really exist, and Ellis never made Bateman musically savvy beyond an obsession with Huey Lewis. But had the famed fictional serial killer started up a band before attending Harvard, it could have been called PERSONAL FINANCE and sounded much like the two-year-old Jamaica Plain quintet. “Fact Addict,” off last year’s Chump Change EP, is a crunchy modern-rock romper right out of 1982; vocalist and Personal Finance CEO Patrick Orr growls about blueprints, measurements, and US presidents. All that’s missing are mergers and acquisitions. Get your Personal Finance in order Monday at ZuZu in Cambridge and again January 26 at the Aviary in JP, and grab the “Fact Addict” MP3 below. This is not an exit.

DOWNLOAD: Personal Finance "Fact Addict" [mp3]