The Vandals’s Comments

• Aug 19th, 2011 @ 8:29am

  Yap

  on South Pacific Island To Use Star Wars Coins As Currency? Or Just As A Publicity Stunt?
  Thanks for mentioning Yap. I try to tell people at that place but people think I'm nuts.
• Jun 8th, 2011 @ 7:02pm

  Odd Couple: Assume

  on Yes, Multiple People Come Up With The Same Joke; It's Not 'Stealing' And Not Even Copying
  Bad News Bears II (the search for Curly's gold) made a huge deal about that assume joke. Good example. It's all in the execution.
• Jun 8th, 2011 @ 8:17am

  Joke Stealing

  on Yes, Multiple People Come Up With The Same Joke; It's Not 'Stealing' And Not Even Copying
  Great article Mike. I love that Jackie follows Rupaul.
• May 17th, 2010 @ 5:25pm

  Re: Re:

  on Reed Elsevier Sues Punk Band Over Parody Logo That Was Discontinued Years Ago
  The Daily Variety calls itself "The Bible of the Entertainment Industry." The Vandals were indeed attempting a parody of them.
• May 4th, 2010 @ 3:01pm

  The Daily Variety

  on Reed Elsevier Sues Punk Band Over Parody Logo That Was Discontinued Years Ago
  Here's a couple clarifications. I loved this article by the way.
  The album art concept is a parody of the materialism of Hollywood business machine. The Daily Variety was parodied because they call themselves the "Bible of Show Business." they are the heralds of what is being mocked by our band.
  
  Regarding the contract issue, the blogger was right who said that if we signed a settlement agreement, they are just suing on the contract. However, we did not breach the agreement, we do not control myspace music, amazon, and youtube. This is where the Variety made their mistake. Since they are abusing the permanent injunction, which carved out 3rd party postings and provided a 30 day cure period, both of which were ignored by Variety's lawyers when they filed their law suit, we are taking the occasion to try to lift the permanent injunction.
  It was signed under the duress of a bullying law firm with 950 attorneys at their disposal.
  If this is what they are going to do to us for the rest of our lives we have to stand up and fight back this time.
  They asked us for $75,000 and want us to sign something to say that if this happens again we owe them twice as much. If what happens? Someone uses the internet? It's ludicrous.d
  Thanks for your support.