Fake Streets Hats

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"Fake Streets Hats" is the 11th and final track of The Streets' third studio album, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. The song is about an incident that happened during the 2004 edition of the Dutch Lowlands Music Festival, where a drunk Mike Skinner openly protested against the handing out of white hats with "The Streets" written on them, because he thought they were fake, and thus illegal merchandise. The hats actually were a gift from his label, Locked On.^[1] Mike Skinner also sees the song as a personal reflection on plagiarism in general.

References

↑ . "Een gelouterde Skinner". De Volkskrant. April 13, 2006.

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Studio albums	Original Pirate Material (2002) A Grand Don't Come for Free (2004) The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (2006) Everything Is Borrowed (2008) Cyberspace and Reds (2011) Computers and Blues (2011)

Extended plays	All Got Our Runnins (2003)

Singles	"Has It Come to This?" "Let's Push Things Forward" "Weak Become Heroes" "The Irony of It All" "Don't Mug Yourself" "Fit But You Know It" "Dry Your Eyes" "Blinded by the Lights" "Could Well Be In" "When You Wasn't Famous" "Never Went to Church" "Prangin' Out" "The Escapist" "Everything Is Borrowed" "Heaven For the Weather" "Going Through Hell" "OMG"

Other songs	"Fake Streets Hats" "Empty Cans" "Who Knows Who" (with Muse)

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