You know how when you were a kid and you would think about how cool it is to be a rock star because you could hang out with other rock stars and just jam out? Well, it turns out rocker Beck had the same fantasy growing up.

Time Out Chicago reported yesterday that Chicago post-rockers Tortoise joined magical freak-of-nature Beck in his Los Angeles studio for his Record Club project.

Beck’s Record Club project is a relaxed studio session where Beck and his coolest rock star friends get together to re-record classic albums.

Beck’s Record Club manifesto:

Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.

Beck recently recruited members of Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes to help him recreate the classic 1987 INXS album Kick. He has previously worked with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and his son, Spencer, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Feist, Devendra Banhart, and actor Giovanni Ribisi in past sessions.

Also joining Beck and Tortoise in the studio session was Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. No word yet on just what album the group recorded together, but Tortoise band member Douglas McCombs told Time Out’s Areif Sless-Kitain that the music selection was “sort of appropriate.”

If that doesn’t get you excited, here is Beck’s Record Club covering INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart” with St. Vincent’s Annie Clark on vocals to tide you over.