Merry Christmas, you music-hoarding sonsofbitches!

Portland’s very own ex-Blowster, full time YACHTster, Jona Bechtolt is giving away A TON of instrumental tracks, for free! The three ZIP files worth of music feature tracks from both The Blow and YACHT, and will be perfect for New Year’s Eve karaoke, your budding career as a mashup artist, or just developing that perfect ringtone using his beat from “The Summer Song.”

Plus, Bechtolt’s explanation to why he giving away his music is pretty forward-thinking and admirable:

I download music. I download a lot of music. I don’t purchase music often, so I completely and totally understand when kids come up to me at shows and look me straight in the eye and tell me they’re not going to buy my record tonight because they’ve already, or are going to go home and, download it. There just isn’t any reason to show animosity towards this new-ish way of communicating; to me, this feels like a natural way of weeding out assholes and the people that aren’t smart enough to make interesting work.

Start the downloading here, here, and here. You crazy kids and your free music!