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When Search and Destroy by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.
Jello Biafra
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Jello Biafra
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: June 17
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