songs about shoplifting/theft?

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GOOD songs, mind you.

I can think of three:

free money (patti smith)
shoplifters of the world (the smiths)
shoplifting (the slits)

...more?

― grammaphone, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction
Shoplifting - the Slits

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

what about shoplifting by the slits

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/0527winona.html

― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

sunny day real estate - thief steal me a peach

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Benny Goodman - Stealin' Apples

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction

S/He said GOOD songs

and what about 'Shoplifting' by the Slits?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

hey i've got one - the slits "shoplifting"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

coolio - sticky fingers
metallica - where the wild things are
nerd - bobby james
ultramagnetic mcs - stop jockin me
the english beat - the limits we set
jewel - stand
better than ezra - rolling
bob dylan - love and theft
alan jackson - don't rock the jukebox
the slits - heard it through the grapevine

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god what about shoplifting by the sli-

oh, fuck.

― grammaphone, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

does HTTT count?

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Shoplifters by Ivor Cutler is very good indeed

― philly p, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Presley or Junior Parker - Mystery Train ("that long black train took my baby and gone")

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" by Sinead O'Connoer (with Bono & Gavin Friday)

"I Stole your Love" by Kiss

"She's Crafty" by the Beastie Boys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

steal your face right offa yr head

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Thief - Can (on delay 1968?)
Thief with the Silver - Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie (on At Swim-Two-Birds)

both great songs

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops in dissing "Been Caught Stealing" SHOCKAH!

und...

Beck's "Steal My Body Home"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"one jump ahead" from the aladdin strk.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"razzle in my pocket" by ian dury

― chris browning (commonswings), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"im goin' hungry" by that vedder/cornell thingamabob

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't the Slits have a song called 'Shoplifting'?

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stealing People's Mail" by Dead Kennedys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"How to Tie a Tie," by the Lucksmiths is about shoplifters trying to go straight. Lovely duet, too.

― Colin, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

madness - in the middle of the night
- theft of the washing line underwear variety

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

royal trux - steal yr face

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

'Stolen Car' - Bruce Springsteen

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stealin at the 7-11" (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)

― bflaska, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait ... What about "Stealin' " by Jesse 'Lone Cat' Fuller?

― bflaska, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

"On the Way Out" by Freedy Johnston.

― Emerson, Hendricks, and Nash (SlimAndSlam), Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:22 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3g0II40U24

― djh, Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:20 (twelve years ago)

madness - in the middle of the night
- theft of the washing line underwear variety

Top Madness tune about shoplifting is "Deceives The Eye" surely.

― everything, Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:25 (twelve years ago)

For some reason, 'Shoplifting' by The Slits immediately came to mind :P

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:29 (twelve years ago)

"Stealing Chickens" by David Alan Coe
also, there's a hip-hop tune about stealing bicycles, but i can't remember who it's by.....

― m0stlyClean, Monday, 3 June 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

The Damned, "Burglar"

― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:55 (twelve years ago)

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