I know that Sonic Youth have been promoting Hits Are for Squares as a celebrity-curated compilation for Starbucks, but let's be honest, it's a Sonic Youth Greatest Hits album. That's it. I don't care if it's Mike D who selects "100%" or Radiohead picks "Kool Thing," the fact is this is a very nicely packaged Greatest Hits record.

But Greatest Hits records are not punk rock, but then again, neither is putting out a Best Of through Starbucks. Just go buy all their albums. They're worth it.

Sonic Youth play Battery Park on July 4th with The Feelies. It's a free show.......

HITS ARE FOR SQUARES TRACKLIST
01 Bull in the Heather [selected by Catherine Keener]
02 Sugar Kane [selected by Beck]
03 100% [selected by Mike D]
04 Kool Thing [selected by Radiohead]
05 Disappearer [selected by Portia de Rossi]
06 Stones [selected by Allison Anders]
07 Tuff Gnarl [selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt]
08 Teenage Riot [selected Eddie Vedder]
09 Shadow of a Doubt [selected by Michelle Williams]
10 Rain on Tin [selected by Flea]
11 Tom Violence [selected by Gus Van Sant]
12 Mary-Christ [selected by David Cross]
13 World Looks Red [selected by Chloë Sevigny]
14 Expressway to Yr Skull [selected by the Flaming Lips]
15 Slow Revolution [New Track]