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Sometimes it's almost as if they want you to pirate stuff. Monkey Dust Series 3 is another series that is now impossible to buy legally. They used various peop

Sometimes it's almost as if they want you to pirate stuff. Monkey Dust Series 3 is another series that is now impossible to buy legally. They used various people's music but didn't have the rights, so it got broadcast and then they couldn't sell it on DVD. I like to keep a copy of obscure and hard to find recordings - it's almost as if recent history is being erased before our very eyes.

cameronh90 5y ago
Limmy's Show Season 3 is the exact same: https://twitter.com/daftlimmy/status/542009546588581888 https://twitter.com/daftlimmy/status/542009546588581888 The fact that the BBC could make this mistake several times does strike me as incompetence. The Monkey Dust situation is a real shame, as it was such a ground-breaking and innovative comedy programmes of its time. Ridiculous that something so influential can now only be watched thanks to piracy. Also kind of ironic considering some of the themes of Monkey Dust... The Wikipedia article also says this: "Another reason for the lack of DVD releases of the later series is thought to be the 'teenage jihadi' sketches being considered unsuitable in the wake of the 7 July 2005 London bombings that occurred a few months later."
pram 5y ago
Monkey Dust is criminally underrated.
jonathankoren 5y ago
> Monkey Dust Series 3 is another series that is now impossible to buy legally. They used various people's music but didn't have the rights, so it got broadcast and then they couldn't sell it on DVD. This has become a reoccurring thing in the streaming world. Dramas have taken to changing the songs, and in the case of Dawson’s Creek the theme [0]. I one time tried to watch an episode of Bevis and Butthead streaming, and the parts where they comment on videos were dead silent except for their remarks. Weird [0] https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a34671665/why-dawsons-creek-theme-song-different-netflix/ https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a34671665/why-dawsons-cr...

cameronh90 5y ago

Limmy's Show Season 3 is the exact same: https://twitter.com/daftlimmy/status/542009546588581888 https://twitter.com/daftlimmy/status/542009546588581888 The fact that the BBC could make this mistake several times does strike me as incompetence. The Monkey Dust situation is a real shame, as it was such a ground-breaking and innovative comedy programmes of its time. Ridiculous that something so influential can now only be watched thanks to piracy. Also kind of ironic considering some of the themes of Monkey Dust... The Wikipedia article also says this: "Another reason for the lack of DVD releases of the later series is thought to be the 'teenage jihadi' sketches being considered unsuitable in the wake of the 7 July 2005 London bombings that occurred a few months later."

pram 5y ago

Monkey Dust is criminally underrated.

jonathankoren 5y ago

> Monkey Dust Series 3 is another series that is now impossible to buy legally. They used various people's music but didn't have the rights, so it got broadcast and then they couldn't sell it on DVD. This has become a reoccurring thing in the streaming world. Dramas have taken to changing the songs, and in the case of Dawson’s Creek the theme [0]. I one time tried to watch an episode of Bevis and Butthead streaming, and the parts where they comment on videos were dead silent except for their remarks. Weird [0] https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a34671665/why-dawsons-creek-theme-song-different-netflix/ https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a34671665/why-dawsons-cr...