in july 2011, illegal pete's launched "greater than" artist collective, a non-traditional record label that works with colorado bands. the label was the brain child of pete turner and suburban home records owner for 17 years, virgil dickerson. currently signed to the label are denver darkwave band snake rattle rattle snake, cello prog pop songwriter ian cooke, active rock denver darlings the epilogues, the belovedly crass comedian ben roy, and most recently the solo work of paper bird songstress esmé patterson.