Vimeo being sued for lip dubs is so obviously insane I don’t even feel the need to comment. Instead, I’m going to use it as an excuse to repost this.

Almost two years ago I made a lip dub for The Verve Pipe’s 90’s hit, The Freshman. EMI Publishing sent a copyright infringement notice and I had to take it down. Just to spite them (because I’m sure they cared) I reposted it without the music. In order to further stick it to EMI I am going to keep not buying music from the major labels, just like everyone else since at least 2000.

If you have a legally purchased copy of The Verve Pipe’s seminal 1996 album Villains handy and you’re a Jeff Rubin superfan, you can synch it up at home yourself. In retrospect I should have given the video a countdown to make synching easier, this takes a few tries but the video and the song start at almost the exact same time.