This is not a commercial release. Rather, this is the preservation of modern musical history.

Megaladon Manny were an experimental rock outfit formed in the summer of 2013 somewhere outside Livingston, Montana. Singer/songwriter Cal Thaddeus initially formed the group as a duo with then-wife Laura Bennington-Thaddeus as a vehicle for his creative output. As a young songwriter in the bustling metropolis of Bozeman, Thaddeus struggled to get his career off the ground, and frequently resorted to penning ad jingles for local businesses in order to support himself and his wife. One day, after the transmission of their 1989 Toyota Camry spontaneously combusted, the songwriting duo decided to hitchhike to Billings.

Upon reaching Billings, Cal and Laura wound up homeless on the streets for some time before being taken in by local musician Seamus Taylor, who had seen an early iteration of Megaladon Manny perform at several of the local open mics. Over the next six months, Thaddeus and Taylor formed a tight creative partnership that eventually lead to the formation of a full four-piece rock group upon the addition of local drummer Francesca Fieldman. Rehearsing in Taylor's basement during this time, the group amassed a baker's dozen of halfway finished songs that they decided to record and flesh out in the process. Of course, being recently homeless and completely out of work for nearly a year, Thaddeus was at a loss for acquisition of studio time. This led to his recruitment of Thom Keating, a budding audio engineer who operated his own label out of West Virginia. It is said that after a single phone call, nearly seven minutes in length, Keating agreed to bring a mobile version of his studio out to Montana in order to record the indie rockers for next to nothing in compensation.

Keating arrived in Billings in the winter of 2014 and the group immediately began work on the album. The recording process was a long and arduous one, as most of Keating's recording equipment had been lost or damaged in his cross-country trek to Montana. By the time recording had officially begun, Keating was armed with little more than an old Califone tape deck, a broken Radio Shack microphone, and an iPhone 4. Rather than postpone the sessions, Thaddeus insisted that they continue as scheduled, and that the lack of professional equipment would only contribute to the lo-fi aesthetic of the record.

After three months of non-stop recording, with sessions that produced over thirty songs, relationships within the band were becoming strained, particularly that of Thaddeus and Bennington. Suddenly, one day in early February of 2015, the two ended their marriage, and Thaddeus took off on his bike with the master tapes. He was never seen again.

The remaining musicians have since disbanded and pursued various careers outside of music. Taylor currently studies architecture at MICA in Baltimore, Maryland, while Fieldman was last seen bagging groceries at a Piggly Wiggly in Missoula. Laura Bennington passed away in a tragic sky-diving incident in June of 2016, and Cal Thaddeus remains officially missing, with the search for his whereabouts having gone cold some time last year.

These recordings were thought to be long lost until March 2018, when they were found on a cassette that had been acquired by Rudy Jaroskovic, a cassette collector and historian based out of Billings. Jaroskovic claims to have received the tape in a box of old cassettes that he purchased for $12 off of craigslist; however, he denies having any memory of who sold him the tapes. It was in the process of cataloging the tapes that he discovered a cassette labeled 'I Wish You Did To [Unfinished]' without any other information or identification to be found. After posting about the tape on several message boards dedicated to tape enthusiasts, Jaroskovic was eventually contacted by Keating, who purchased the tape from him, remastered the recordings and produced the eleven tracks before you today.

Today, I Wish You Did To stands as the sole recorded effort of Megaladon Manny and any of its members; it also constitutes the last known physical evidence of the existence of Cal Thaddeus, whose birth certificate and social security number have seemingly been expunged from public record. Thus, it has been uploaded here in an effort to document and preserve a rare blip in the timeline of indie lo-fi rock. Listener, if you're out there, I hope these recordings find you well and serve you as they were meant to.

In 2018, when asked about his contributions to I Wish You Did To, Thom Keating had this to say:

"Oh yeah, that happened... I don't really remember that time of my life. I'm pretty sure I was in some mescaline-induced stupor for most of 2014, a la Hunter S. Thompson. The only memories I really have left from that time are driving through the Montana Desert and puking into a cassette deck. I'd really rather not talk about it."