NEWS: Love Sells Shares of Nirvana Catalog

MUSIC: Love Sells Shares of Nirvana Catalog

According to Rolling Stone, Courtney Love has taken a bold step to end her current financial crisis by selling off 25% of her shares in Nirvana's music catalog. The buyer is Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Music Publishing, who has reportedly paid over $50 million for the rights.

Courtney, who has controlled 98% of the band's publishing rights since the 1994 suicide of her husband Kurt Cobain, says not to expect a Revolution redux.

Mestrel says he also has no intention of harming Nirvana's musical integrity.

Is there a release date for the JXL remix of In Bloom yet?

The sooner we get that music out of the hands of that psycho the better.

To be fair, the "psycho" hasn't exactly been using the songs in ads, or in movies, or really done much with them at all. Which is kinda cool...

Coming soon from Fearless records: Punk Goes Nirvana!

also, controlling the "Publishing Rights" is a lot different than owning the actual performances.

surprised Jacko didn't buy. Hmm.

Thats great courtney. I hope the money helps.

THIS, hopefully. (If anyone involved has ANY kind of sense of humour..)

Too bad she didn't sell it off to Dave Grohl or any of the other Ex-Nirvana guys. You know, the guys who ACTUALLY MADE THE MUSIC, not just latched onto Cobain and sucked the life out of him,

We can thank Michael Jackson for putting the Beatles in commercials.....I think she may just do what she said....keeep the integrity of the music. She could have done much much more with it by now....unless she has just been lazy........still she can never get a album like live through this written again sinc the writer is dead.

"We're going to... take Nirvana places it's never been before"

Like where... a Nissan commercial?

I was thinking the exact same thing....



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finally! now i can "lithium" as elevator musak...

i can only hope this an april fool's prank...

Jacko has his own money issues to worry about.

sucks..

im sure one day will see

Smell like teen spirit in one comercial of ladyspeed

Right now they're using Johnny Cash music for a Comfort Inn/Choice Hotel ad.

I won't ask how they plan to go about "exposing his music to a new youth culture to a new generation" but one can't help but wonder....

Jesus Christ, people...it's not like they're going to use the Mona Lisa for toilet paper. It's Nirvana. Sure, I loved them growing up. I have their cds...and still enjoy them. For fuck's sake, though...pick your battles.

God, I ask you for only one thing for the rest of my life....the opportunity to kick Courtney Love in the face. Thanks in advance.

I always thought that the first time I heard Nirvana on a classic rock station, that would prove I'm getting old. It happened 2 years ago, when I was 25. Nirvana should be required listening for this generation.

Christ, is it too much to ask that people actually click the fucking links in the story. You know, the ones that say Michael Jackson was not solely responsible for the Beatles being in commercials, and that he couldn't stop the songs from being in those commercials?

And Soundgarden and Metallica, and the Butthole Surfers.

Methadone?