The 1984 movie “Repo Man” became a cult classic film, written and directed by Alex Cox and featured Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez. The original soundtrack featured a number of Southern California punk bands of the late 70s and early 80s, which one of them was Suicidal Tendencies and their now classic tune “Institutionalized.”

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Who else but Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra could take a stab at this song and place her stamp upon this already angst filled tune. Channeling her inner Mike Muir and yelling the words “all I wanted was a Pepsi…” was convincing enough to make this into her own. The song is featured on the Tribute to Repo Man soundtrack, released by American Laundromat Records.