Parasite

Wankers just don’t get much bigger than former PMRC shill and Art Garfunkel analogue Mike Love:

In court papers filed this week in Los Angeles, Love accused Wilson, his cousin, of promoting the 2004 release of Smile in a way that “shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love’s songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the Smile album itself”.

Love, the Beach Boys’ lead singer and the owner of the name of the band, is seeking millions of dollars in damages.

So, to recap, Love’s philistinism prevents the album from being recorded as a Beach Boys album in the first place, and now that Wilson finally recorded it himself Love wants to reap the profits. And has the temerity to want damages for an alleged decline in the value of Beach Boys recordings, although without Wilson’s songs the catalogue would be worth about as much as a box of Milli Vanilli cassette singles.
That is a world-class scumbag.

(Via Julia.)