News: Sin And Degradation on Sunday; WFMU Pledge Drive Marathon With Yo La Tengo Murdering The Classics

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Listener supported radio WFMU calls it their 50th anniversary pledge drive, I call it a karaoke wet dream. Let us rejoice in an event thats primarily about you, your radio, and Yo La Tengo ruining your favorite songs over and over again. Since 1996, Yo La Tengo and the gang have been taking pledgers requests and hurling themselves headfirst into reckless covers, a phenomenon immortalized in the groups 1996-2003 compilation Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics, released on their own label Egon and available here. While past WFMU pledge drive events have included DJs setting themselves on fire, self-inducing sickness on...