Recording equipment is cheap. It's relatively easy to get excellent quality audio to disk using a modicum of mics, eq and amp simulators. This works for guitars, bass, keys, samples, loops and vox but drums are another matter altogether. Mainly because you need several specialized mics and a great sounding room to get a quality sound.

Small studios like Goose are ideal in this situation. Given a quality well tuned kit it’s likely you can be actually recording within an hour of arriving at the studio. So far you have spent $50. If you have figured out your arrangements and BPMs (beats per minute) prior to arriving and have a well-rehearsed drummer, it's not uncommon to get 3 to 5 songs down in another two hours.

The reality is that drummers have good days and bad days so don’t count on it but the average ep (6 songs) costs $300 for the drum recordings at Goose. Now you can take the files home and spend hundreds (or thousands, or millions) of hours getting the rest of the instrumental takes for free.
In fact, a good proportion of the recording of indie bands is done this way.

This MP3 is an example of the sounds we get for drums from different kits for varying genres.

Here are links to some bands who have recorded drums at Goose......

The Herd (77% is the song recorded at Goose)
Major
Lovetones
Walrus