"'A grifter is a conman,' admits the group's Scott Taylor. 'We see stuff after the fact, and we can correlate that we grift all this music and actually have people believe it's good. We get slagged for having records sound like compilations, whereas most groups now, they have their shtick and beat you over the head with it for ten or 12 songs. All the combinations haven't been exhausted; we're just trying to find them. It's not unlike being in a jazz band where someone comes in and says, 'Here's five cords, let's run with it.' They have the technique; we flip a coin and see what happens'"
--The Wire, 1994

Crappin' You Negative, is the title of the last Grifters LP.

Grifters now on SubPop There is also a site maintained by Shangri-La.