Old music: Killing Joke – Age of Greed

Greedy bankers, cuts to services, a Tory in No 10 – what better circumstances could there be to listen to Killing Joke?Killing Joke have always seemed like the soundtrack to a dystopian future that was just around the corner, and when the coalition government threatened to reduce tax rates for the rich while cutting benefits for the poor, this 1990 track sprung to mind.Taken from the 1990 album Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions, Age of Greed opens with an American advertising mono...

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