Is Frank's Place available on tape?

Black dubbed this backing band "the Catholics", and the band's eponymous album Frank Black and the Catholics was recorded in 1997. Recorded live-to-two-track initially as merely a demo, Black was so pleased with the results that he decided to release the sessions with no further production. The album was delayed for over a year by internal conflicts at American, and was ultimately released in late 1998 by SpinArt Records in the US. The album also became the first to be posted to the eMusic service — they claim it is "the first album ever made legally available for commercial download". Critical reception to the album was in general mixed, with some writers noting Black's seemingly deliberate turn away from the "quirkiness" of the Pixies and his early solo work for a self-consciously straightforward approach.