Suing The Vandals

[Aaron Troy]

Check out the excerpt from the recent Kung Fu Records newsletter regarding Daily Variety suing The Vandals over their album cover for Hollywood Potato Chip.

[Aaron Troy]

Our very own Vandals are being sued by Daily Variety for the group's new logo on their recently released Hollywood Potato Chip album. The trademark infringement accusation is on the grounds The Vandals new logo borrows the logo of Daily Variety, the entertainment industry trade magazine.

Responding to the accusation, Joe Escalante, bassist for The Vandals affirms, "The theme of our album artwork is a cynical parody of the Hollywood entertainment industry. It's weird that a news organization that depends on free speech for its livelihood couldn't see the artistic merit of what we have done. In addition, the magazine was aware of the art several months ago when we sent out the album to review. I understand their response at that time was something to the effect of 'why didn't they get the real 'v' artwork directly from us so it would look better.

"If our logo reminds someone of their logo, it's because their logo is a symbol of the Hollywood entertainment industry that we have a right to parody; the way they would on Saturday Night Live or something. It's just a social comment. Now several months later, they want to cause problems for us, it's pretty sad."

If you would like to voice your opinon on the subject to Variety feel free to write them at varietycomments@reedbusiness.com .

[aminorthreat55]

Yeah I got that in the Kung Fu Records thing this morning, damn assholes have nothing better to do. Fuck the Daily Variety, go Vandals.

[brokenvince]

daily variety bad, vandals good

[burnpianoisland]

daily variety bad, vandals good
hahaha. nice.