If proposals secretly being negotiated by the Canadian, US and European Union governments come to pass, Border Patrol guards will soon be responsible for not just checking for bombs and drugs, but also illegally copied mp3s, movies and other “intellectual property”:

The deal would create an international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police. The security officials would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellular phones for content that “infringes” on copyright laws, such as ripped CDs and movies.

The guards would also be responsible for determining what is infringing content and what is not.

The agreement also proposes that any content that may have been copied from a DVD or digital video recorder would be open for scrutiny by officials — even if the content was copied legally.

You’d think with terrorists perpetually waiting in the wings to reign radioactive havoc upon our cities that Border Police would have much more important things to worry about than whether or not your copy of Surrogate’s Love is for the Rich was purchased legitimately or done stoled from Limewire or wherever, but you’re RONG!1 Internet piracy is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS!

Check out this video of Surrogate at Chico State’s BMU Auditorium playing “Fix Another” a track of their debut record Love is for the Rich out NOW on Tooth and Nail Records. In the interest of full disclosure I must admit that they stupid talking guy with the bass at the beginning is me, thus making all the the third person references in my first sentence totally false. But I’m way too lazy to go back and change it now so deal with it, KTHX!!

So our friend Harland Spinks took some pretty rad pictures of last week’s Surrogate CD release party at Cafe Coda in Chico,CA  featuring Casing the Promisedland, Brighten, The Americas, and of course, Surrogate playing cuts off their (or I guess should say, in the name of disclosure, our) new CD Love is for the Rich, which, if you’re wondering, is now available from fine record retailers everywhere.

Surrogate

The Americas

Casing the Promisedland

Justin from Brighten serenading his old lady

For the full set, check out your boy’s Flickr here 

If you buy one record next Tuesday, August 28th, make it Surrogate’s Love is For the Rich. There are many reasons for this, but here’s the main one: