Best gift in our house? Viv got the Camper Van Beethoven box set Cigarettes & Carrot Juice which incorporates all the early records by this incredibly influential band. Lucky for her, she’ll be discovering this music for the first time, more or less.
Later today, we’re off to stand in line for The Two Towers at the Cinerama; I can’t wait.
From the vaults. The title of this post is not intended to intimate any sort of conspiracy, but rather the US Festival tune included herein.
There’s a thriving trade in booted CD-Rs for these shows.
Here’s a poser: Am I violating the DMCA? The recordings are not released commercially, but the songs themselves are copyrighted and rights managed via ASCAP/BMI.
So in order to bolster my opinion, that I’m sharing this material in a reflection of topicality, due to Strummer’s recent passing, under fair use, I will be removing them from this location on New Year’s Day.