Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOne of the great perks of working as an entertainment writer is the weird promotional stuff you get in the mail — cool things intended to amplify buzz around a project that can’t really be elaborate or useful enough to qualify as payola.
Far beyond just t-shirts and hoodies, over the decades we’ve gotten everything from cufflinks to coasters, CD openers to mp3 players, clocks, dartboards, letter openers, stationary — we actually possess a Radiohead “Amnesiac” notepad from 2002 — Beach Boys beach balls, an embroidered Slayer denim jacket, Butthole Surfers toilet paper, a Bryan Ferry ashtray and even a snack-sized box of Tori Amos Corn Flakes (created to promote the 1994 single “Cornflake Girl”) that the singer.
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