Buy Nothing by Formidable Vegetable

Forget Black Friday. Forget consumerism. Everything is now 100% off! At least according to the anti-consumerist utopian vision of Formidable Vegetable's new and completely 'off-brand' anthem celebrating the best things in life (which, incidentally are free!)

From electro-raver funk, award-winning children's music and Eurovision-style subversion at the United Nations to big-band garage rock, Formidable Vegetable's latest shape-shifting single pumps their ecologically pro-social message up to Eleven, as the world continues to be pulled deeper into the Anthropocene and hyper-capitalist dystopia. What can we mere mortals do? Black Friday is now Buy Nothing Day, so the solution may be as simple as: Just Buy Nothing!

The single drops in time for the Formidable Vegetable's appearance at the Rising Tide Protestival in Newcastle on Nov 22, 2024 alongside Peter Garret, John Butler & Angie McMahon, where over 10,000 people are taking climate action into their own hands by blockading the world's largest coal port to send the government a message to stop subsidising the fossil fuel industry.

After that, the band will appear at Woodford Folk Festival in December and tour the east coast with Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis and GRAMMY-winning family hip-hop MC, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, finishing up at Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania. Tickets from: http://bit.ly/costasgarden

Tracklist

1.	Buy Nothing	2:44

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Lyrics

You don’t need the newest
the biggest or shiniest
Cos the gold that you hold may be
something old or even the tiniest

Give all that you’ve got to give
and love what you have
Cos If you’re all like ‘me and mine’
the shiny shines that you buy
will just make you sad

Well you can’t buy love
or the air that we breathe
You don’t need to pay
to eliminate greed

Just buy nothing

Dont buy the spin
The best things ain’t things
So make your heart sing

Buy nothing
Nothing
Buy Nothing
Nothing
Buy nothing
Nothing
Buy Nothing
Buy Nothing

Forget all your stuff
You are enough
Woah, yeah

Just buy nothing
Buy nothing, yeah
Just buy nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing

Credits

released November 22, 2024
Charlie Mgee: drums, vocals, ukulele
James Newhouse: guitar, vocals
Dave Mann: lead guitar
Mal Webb: trumpet, trombone
Kylie Morrigan: violin

Produced by Charlie Mgee, James Newhouse & Jim Moynihan on Noongar Boodja.
Mastered by Jim Moynihan on Taungurung and Wurundjeri Country.

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.