Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (special reissue bonus edition) (1986/2006) (@256)

This post comes partly as a succession to the previous post, where the 4th track named "Bragg Reshuffle" is indeed an echo of the basic elements that characterise Billy Bragg's music. A beloved figure of the British music scene, he is in a sense my generation's Woody Guthrie.
Always in the front line of political activism, he proved once more his consistency by refusing to pay his taxes unless the excessive bonuses at Royal Bank of Scotland are curbed. Bragg has also set up a campaign called NoBonus4RBS on Facebook to convince the Treasury to use the right of veto over the bank's bonus payments. Bragg wrote: "What I don't understand is why, now that we taxpayers are the majority shareholders of these banks, we seem powerless to curb their excessive bonus culture." You can also view Bragg's article "Why I'm withholding my tax" in Guardian.

review link: here

download link: (original album) here, (bonus material & covers, credits etc.) here (links removed due to a relevant request).