Nirvana

(DGC) This by-the-numbers best-of may work for kid brothers who missed out on Nirvana the first time, but anyone invested in the catalog will be rightfully pissed at having to buy an entire album for “You Know You’re Right.” Twenty years ago, Nirvana’s last recorded song together would’ve come out as a single. Today, the same buyers who might have paid $2 for the song in 1982 can download it for free, and who can blame them?

This article appears in December 27 • 2002.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.