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3 unusual facts about The Consumer Goods


The Consumer Goods

a speech by Dick Cheney is appropriated and edited in a mocking tribute to Cheney, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld in "Eat a Dick, Cheney"

Winston Churchill's unfortunate description of Iraq as an "ungrateful volcano" when Iraqis refused to comply with British subjugation after the First World War is the subject of the song of the same name

Canadian Conservative hockey pundit Don Cherry is the central character in satirical pop anthem "Hockey Night in Afghanada"


Matt McLennan

He also plays guitar in label-mate Tyler Shipley's political pop outfit The Consumer Goods, and is a member of chamber-folk recording project Mr. Pine.


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