Mike sez, "For three weeks only, Amazon and Mojo Nixon are offering his entire catalog in MP3 format completely free, including his latest album, Whiskey Rebellion."
Now there's some good news! There's nothing I don't like about Mojo Nixon. This is the guy who produced the kiddypunk band Old Skull after all (I always suspected he was responsible for the rousing chorus of "I hate you Ronald Reagan!" at the end of their smash-hit "Homeless").
If you're not familiar with Mr Nixon's oeuvre, give a listen to Elvis is Everywhere, Wash No Dishes No More and This Land is Your Land. Especially Wash No Dishes No More.
Update: This only works if your IP address is in the USA.
Mojo Nixon (Thanks, Mike!)
One of the most outsized personalities on college radio in the '80s, Mojo Nixon won a fervent cult following with his motor-mouthed redneck persona and a gonzo brand of satire with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Nixon had a particular knack for celebrity-themed novelty hits ("Elvis Is Everywhere," "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child," "Don Henley Must Die"), but he was prone to gleefully crass rants on a variety of social ills ("I Hate Banks," "Destroy All Lawyers," "I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar"), while celebrating lowbrow, blue-collar America in all its trashy, beer-soaked glory. All of it was performed in maximum overdrive on a bed of rockabilly, blues, and R&B, which earned Nixon some friends in the roots rock community but had enough punk attitude -- in its own bizarre way -- to make him a college radio staple during his heyday.
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Oh wow. I can't believe he's doing this. This is so awesome.
As the Dead Milkmen said, "If you don't got Mojo Nixon/
Then your store could use some fixin."
This is frickin' AWESOME! I bought "Frenzy" the day it came out, and damned near played the groove out of the vinyl.
But why is I Like Marijuana still $0.99?
Maybe Mojo needs some green to get his green?
...only in the US, apparently (as one discovers after Amazon has you through a series of irrelevant pages, asking to confirm you physical address, trying to have you download their own downloader etc.).
This is not 'free' if there is a requirement to install a special down loader and also provide a ridiculous amount of personal information.
Yes it is.
I was all excited until:
" We are sorry...
We could not process your order. The sale of MP3 Downloads is currently available only to US customers located in the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. "
Should read: "…entire catalog in MP3 format completely free IN THE U.S., including…". Meh.
It was free for me which is awesome. I already had a lot of his albums but never got around to putting it on my computer. He just saved me a step. FYI you don't need to use the amazon downloader if you don't want to but probably need to be in the US, but other countries get stuff we don't all the time so I don't feel too bad.
Oh come on people. I don't know which is worse, Amazon and their 3 weeks only rule (ah, welcome to the internet, you let them go for free, they are gone for good) or @3,5,6. I am Australian. I got the same message and my first reaction was "Amazon's interface was b0rken anyway, I'll wait for the torrent."
And I bet it's Windows only, but I won't bother trying, as I'm in the UK...
Dammit, I just bought, like, three Mojo Nixon albums. Dammit!
Mojo and Skid once got the entire audience at the main stage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival to chant "Nancy suck satan's dick."
Oh, the family units were a little uncomfortable with that, I can tell you.
Dammit. I also went through all the downloading rigamarole just to end up with with "Sorry, but you don't live in the right part of the universe" message.
Cory, could you please update the post to include that warning, to save other readers time, if you get a chance?
I am speechless. and happy. I love Mojo Nicon, but only have part of the discog. And quite honestly, I forgot about him.
this is kind of like what 16volt (www.16volt.com/downloads) did with their whole back catlogue, except 16v made it permanent.
Maybe this is the new wave of music distribution.
Cory & BB team: I don't know what percentage of BB readers there are outside of the US -- I'm sure you know from looking at the logs -- but I'm willing to bet it's a fair percentage.
It *might* be relevant to mention in the summary that whatever is being reported on doesn't apply to a great number of your readers.
It's especially aggravating in this case since you only find out you can't download the MP3s after jumping through several hoops on the Amazon site. And that's for people like me who already have an Amazon account, it's even worse for those who end up registering (and thus give out personal information) for the sole purpose of downloading these albums.
hey y'all,
lie. a billing addresses for a free download doesn't need to match a credit card billing address.
i got to round out my mojo collection for the two albums i don't have :)
The Amazon downloader is not required, but it sure does help to use a tool to pull all those files. They asked me no questions at all other than to log in so that I could "buy" the free items - must know I'm in Los Estados Unidos de América.
I think this is some sort of promotion for the new album, but I'm not sure how the label will make money.
@mneptok
A version of "I Like Marijuana" is on the Gadzooks!! album for free. The single you linked to is on a compilation album and not a Mojo one.
Doesn't look like the "Horny Holidays" album ("Recorded top to bottom in four days, 17 bottles of peppermint schnapps on the floor") is included.
I used to sing "Vibrator Dependent" to a girlfriend of mine. We broke up. Guess it wasn't as funny or ironic as I thought.
"We asked for Mojo Nixon
They said, 'he don't work here'!
We said, 'if you don't got Mojo Nixon
Then your store could use some fixin'!"
@1: Glad to see the Dead Milkmen love.
pushmonk / wispsmoke:
We got into her car/
away we started rollin/
I said "how much you pay for this"/
she said "nothin man it's stolen!"/
let's travel 'round the world, just you and me punk rock girl.
You forgot to mention his sidekick, Skid Roper. Here's a video of them doing 'I'm Gonna Dig Up Howling Wolf.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzoYj4TJuA
So, anyone know of a good proxy for us Foreigners ?
thank you mojo!
i just downloaded them all via ubuntu linux. nyah!
Cool! Most of his stuff I only have in vinyl form in some crates in my garage.
To my mind, the real essential Mojo stuff is all on his first two albums. The must-have tracks are:
Jesus At McDonalds [riff shamelessly stolen from "Sister Ray" and "Roadrunner"]
Mushroom Maniac [Bo Diddley beat banged out on empty 5-gallon water jugs, no lie]
Moanin' With Your Mama
Stuffin' Martha's Muffin
Where The Hell's My Money?
Oasisob1, you'd lose that bet. My Leopard-running PowerBook G4 takes those MP3s just fine.
My theory, as it applies to much of the content out there in high-compression land, is to encourage CD sales once folks have had a listen. Plus a good way to introduce or remind people of the Rockabilly Zappa. Yes, I went there.
I saw Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper 20 years ago opening for the Pogues at an outdoor concert in Washington DC. They put on a great show, and when the Pogues came on, Shane McGowan was much too drunk to sing anything at all (couldn't stand up, couldn't figure out which direction the audience was, couldn't figure out if a song was being played or not, etc) After a couple of futile attempts, the band called Nixon back to the stage and we got a full set of the Pogues with Mojo Nixon fronting. Good times!
I will attempt these free downloads, although I won't trust a "downloader" app from Amazon.
I am severely disappointed at my fellow boingboing commenters.
not a SINGLE reference to Redneck Rampage (Interplay, r.i.p.)
U.F.O.'s and Big Rigs and BBQ?
omg come ON you guys!
Nixon for president!
Best acoustic cover of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ever. Maybe the only one.
The only proprietary bit is their album downloader app, which is:
(a) optional (you can download each track separately);
(b) available for numerous platforms, including several linux distros;
(c) easily replaced with the open-source Clamz (http://code.google.com/p/clamz/)
Amazon is trying really hard not to be evil. I, for one, support them with quite a few of my dollars (and will be delighted to leech the mighty Mojo back catalog from them).
So: your bet? You lose it. You owe me one Discharge back catalog.
Somehow, I had never heard his In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida before. Thanks for pointing it out.
Mushroom Maniac FTW.
I'm heading over to Amazon RIGHT NOW.
P.S. For all the tight-asses, you don't need to install the downloader unless you want to; it's a convenience.
Mojo Nixon as Toad is the best part of the live action Super Mario Bros.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3d2H6-4X7E
Right frakkin' on! I have all this on vinyl, which I still spin, but it's nice to get this into the iPod mix. I saw Mojo and Skid with the Beat Farmers several times BITD (yes, I went to college in the 80s). Thanks Mojo! (and RIP Country Dick).
You gotta love Mojo Nixon. I saw him and Skid Roper decades ago at the SLO Brew in San Luis Obispo. After the show he was hawking soiled workshirts with Mojo badges sewed on, yelling "Pre-shrunk and pre-stunk! Help pay for Mama Nixon's iron lung!"
Seems to be missing the following albums:
The Real Sock Ray Blue
Horny Holidays
I have the Sock Ray Blue cd but not Horny...bummer for me.
Definitely saves re-ripping the cd's.
gizmo
Reminded of Mojo's ironic run for president--I guess it was '88, maybe '92--and the slogan he used, which was, "Put Another Nixon in the White House: Mojo Ain't No Dick."
I remember seeing him circa 1992. I was a college DJ at the time, so was getting _everyone_ to record interviews, Radio Promos, etc. Interviewed him for 5, before the show and he was already blotto. Came off as 100% honest and genuine, said he was drunk as hell, but man could he still play. Trying to get the college kids to get loud and obnoxious, Mojo yelled: "they're louder than that at Baylor, and that's a [bleep] Christian school!"
Awesome time, awesome show.
Please can some kind person upload these albums to rapidshare, hotfile or megaupload for all of us non Americans who are missing out? I have imported some of his stuff from the States on tape and CD, but his stuff is very hard to get hold of now - especially in good quality mp3 format.