Belushi Speed Ball React to Being ‘Ripped Off’ by Green Day: “Is This How Municipal Waste Feels?!”

When it comes to making asinine promotional material for a metal band using old toys, video game consoles, and slices of pizza encased in resin, there’s no one more at the forefront than madcap thrash outfit Belushi Speed Ball. Let’s face it, they’ve kinda got the market cornered on that niche.

So you can imagine their apparent surprise when insanely rich and world-renowned pop punk band Green Day announced their Dookie Demastered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their insanely influential album. What’s Dookie Demastered, you ask? It’s a video they did where they played each of the album’s 15 tracks on a different vintage electronic item — think things like a floppy disk, a Gameboy, an eight-track… the list goes on.

But perhaps the most galling thing, according to the Louisville-based band, was the fact that Green Day dared to include an animatronic teddy bear called a Teddy Ruxpin in their list of things they used to “demaster” Dookie. Belushi Speed Ball sold that specific toy with their music programmed in it back in 2022, but they’ve also done a lot of those other things as well.

In response, the band released the following statement directly to MetalSucks:

“Here at Belushi Speed Ball Incorporated, we pride ourselves in the artisan crafting of our hand made merchandise items, which over the years we have provided the fans with albums on Super Nintendo, Gameboy Advanced, Nintendo 64, Sega CD, VHS, Furby, Pizza, 8-track, and Teddy Ruxpin. Which we have busted our butts to get noticed by the masses. And in one single swoop, Green Day comes in and instantly is revered as innovative merch geniuses.

“Is this… is this how getting ripped off feels?!? Is this how Municipal Waste feels!?!”

You can check out examples of their past merch ideas below, along with the official video of Green Day’s “demastered” project. You be the judge.