down with the sound so sweet y’all

Can't post the downloads of these, so posting a screenshot of a crop of a picture I like to add to the archive

To The 5 Boroughs (Released on June 15th, 2004)

FYI, the guy who runs Beastie Boys Collection has a history of racist, sexist behaviour and was charged for voter fraud earlier this year.

Here is just some of the public info out there, you can easily google his name to find out more:

There are plenty more gross social media posts like this one below on the website www.fredgattuso.com

Beastie Boys performing at a benefit concert organised by Rage Against The Machine for Leonard Peltier. 29th April, 1994 at California State University.

(From videos on YouTube channel of Michael Engert, thanks for the heads up on the channel @rhyme-the-rhyme-well, for others who haven't been on it yet, has some good rare BB footage)

(Also by Lynn Goldsmith)

Interview with Beastie Boys for Machina magazine, 07/1998

By: Rafał Bryndal

Translation: Anna Bak ( @styleiswild )

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Introduction: The party called Beastie Boys in Lisbon went on for two days. On the first day we (the journalists) were invited to a magical “Kremlin” club to listen to the new album [Hello Nasty]. I don’t think I have to explain how I felt knowing that I was possibly one of the first Polish people to listen to that phenomenal record. On the second day each of us got to meet the band in Hotel Ritz during the so-called “round-table.” It’s like a private conversation with the artists. It looks a bit like a coffee party at your aunt’s. (…) The whole meeting was just as absurd, in a positive way. The answers they gave us were often ironic, as one could expect.

R.B.: Don’t you think that being Beastie Boys is way cooler than being any other band in the world?

MCA: Unfortunately, we haven’t tried being a different band yet. So I can’t really answer your question.

Mike D: To be honest, there’s something to it. Maybe because we have so much fun working together. It’s not always fun, of course. We do work from time to time, but only sometimes.

R.B.: It seems like you work on your albums for fun and pleasure exclusively?

Mike D: I think it’s because we don’t release them that often.