Crass

Jawbox - Green Glass

BEAR

The Stranglers "Bear Cage" [The Raven]
Descendents "I Wanna Be a Bear" [Milo Goes to College]
Elvis Presley "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" [Elvis 30 # 1 Hits]
Radiohead "Hunting Bears" [Amnesiac]
They Might Be Giants "Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees and Hares" [Why?]
Kimya Dawson "Mare and the Bear" [Thunder Thighs]
Jimmie Driftwood & Chet Atkins "The Bear Flew Over the Ocean" [Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security]
Kyle Littlefeather "The Bear Dance" [The Unconquered Spirit: Chants & Trances Of The Native American Indian]
Barenaked Ladies "The Other Day I Met a Bear" [For The Kids Three!]
All Girl Summer Fun Band "Grizzly Bear" [A House Full Of Friends]
Ahleuchatistas "The Bears Of Cantabria Shall Sleep No More" [Even In The Midst...]
The Gaturs "Cold Bear" [Wasted]
Harry Nilsson "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" [Harry]
3 Leg Torso "Divertissements for Performing Bears" [3 Leg Torso]
Richard Thompson "Bear Fight" [Music From Werner Herzog's 'Grizzly Man']
Mekons "Honey Bear" [Ancient & Modern 1911-2011]
Late of the Pier "The Bears Are Coming" [Fantasy Black Channel]
John Trudell "Teddy Bear Tears" [Fables And Other Realities]
Johnny Whitehorse (a.k.a. Robert Mirabal) "Bear" [Totemic Flute Chants]
Alejandro Escovedo "Golden Bear" [Real Animal]
Soft Machine / Andrei Codrescu "Hibou, Anenome And Bear" / "I'm A Bear" [Volume 2 / No Tacos For Saddam]
A Camp "Bear On The Beach" [Colonia]
The Mamas & The Papas "Dancing Bear" [The Mamas & The Papas]
CocoRosie "Bear Hides and Buffalo" [Noah's Ark]
Jimi Hendrix "Three Little Bears" [Merry Christmas And Happy New Year]
Ride "Polar Bear " [Nowhere]
of Montreal "Panda Bear" [The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy]
Natalie Merchant "The Dancing Bear" [Leave Your Sleep]
Tony Levin "Lone Bear" [Plus from Us]
Marissa Nadler "In Your Lair, Bear" [Marissa Nadler]
Koen Holtkamp "Bear Bell" [Field Rituals]
Joanna Newsom with Steve Albini & Van Dyke Parks "Bear & Monkey" [Ys]

BEAR

Songs From The Black Hole

Give Me The Cure

Prong "Give Me The Cure" (Fugazi)

Steady Diet Of Nothing

KYEO

Reclamation

Red Medicine

Combination Lock

Target

Beck - Green Light (Sonic Youth Cover)

A Touching Display (2006 Remastered Version)

The Feeding of the 5000 (remastered 2010)

CRASS - Punk is Dead

CRASS - They've Got a Bomb

CRASS - End Result

CRASS - Asylum

This Heat, "A New Kind of Water (Edit)"

“Do They Owe Us a Living?” is one of the very first songs recorded by the British anarchist punk band Crass in 1977. The chorus is “do they owe us a living? Of course they fucking do,” meaning that we all—regardless of who we are or where we come from or what we do for work—deserve quality of life. That this idea is still radical in 2020 is testament to the infuriating lack of creativity, empathy, and joy that constitutes life in a purely capitalist society. 

Crass sold their albums so cheaply they lost money on every sale; this single costs $5 and we’re donating 100% of proceeds to One Fair Wage’s Emergency Coronavirus Tipped and Service Worker Support Fund, which provides direct cash assistance to restaurant workers, car service drivers, delivery workers, personal service workers and more who are owed a living, now as ever. 

Our recording owes a huge debt of gratitude to The Soft Pink Truth, who recorded an excellent version of “Do They Owe Us a Living?” for 2004 for Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?). Our cover is a cover of this cover. 

The Crass Logo was designed by Dave King. We made this pixel version in Animal Crossing.

Lyrics:

Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they do, of course they do 
Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they fucking do 

They don't want me anymore, threw it on the floor 
Used to call me sweet thing, I'm nobody's plaything 
And now that I am different, love to bust my head 
You'd love to see me cop out, love to see me dead 

Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they do, of course they do 
Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they fucking do 

The living that is owed to me, I'm never going to get 
Buggered this whole world up, up to their necks in debt. 
Give you a lobotomy for something you ain't done 
Make you the epitome of everything that's wrong 

Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they do, of course they do 
Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they fucking do 

Don't take any notice of what the public thinks 
So much on the TV, just don't want to think. 
Used you as a target, they want to sell advice 
When you don't want to hear it, say you're full of vice 

Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they do, of course they do 
Do they owe us a living? 
Of course they fucking do

Credits:

Released April 3, 2020 
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT 
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

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Do They Owe Us A Living

YACHT - Do They Owe Us A Living?

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