For several of their Halloween shows over the past years, Phish has been known to don a musical “costume” by covering an entire album from their favorite bands. It all started in 1994 with The Beatles’ White Album, the Talking Heads’ Remain in Light in 1996 and Velvet Underground’s Loaded in 1998.

To mark their first Halloween show back after a five year break, the band announced before hand that they would continue the album cover tradition. Since the band has returned, they have done a great job of utilizing social media by sending live setlist updates via Twitter, and posting photos on Flickr. On their own domain, Phish has built elaborate Flash sites to tease fans about future dates, and most recently what album they would cover on Halloween.

The Halloween Set minisite displays 99 album covers spanning bands like Led Zeppelin, and David Bowie to MGMT and Michael Jackson. Each day, a different album was “murdered” by axe or other sharp object, until the date of the show. The album the band played on 10/31/09 ended up being the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St.

The video above is an incredible mashup of tracks from the 99 different albums Phish had originally chosen.

Eclectic Method Goes Phish on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Thanks to Bianca.