Synthetic Socks is an album by Aaron Freeman (a.k.a. Gene Ween), released on TeenBeat Records in 1987. It is almost entirely the product of Freeman making personal recordings in his bedroom. Freeman sent two cassettes of material to TeenBeat over six months. Freeman and Mark Robinson later went through the tapes and selected songs from them that would later appear on the album.
"I Wanna Lick It/Can I Speak To Mark With Electricity?" features the 1975 Kiss hit "Rock and Roll All Nite" in its entirety, which also briefly appears in "Justcruisin'". This is due to Freeman recording the album on old cassettes with music already on the tape. This effect is also heard on the Ween song "Birthday Boy", which features a small section of Pink Floyd's song "Echoes" near the end. Other examples of this effect happening in Ween's discography are on "I Play It Off Legit" and "Flies On My Dick".
Synthetic Socks features a very embryonic version of Ween's trademark sound. Freeman's later bandmate, Michael Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween), appears a few times on the cassette.