Sex Pistols give up, approve song for TV ad

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British butter lover John Lydon apparently is no longer the only Sex Pistol willing to cash in the last shreds of the band's cultural credibility. Now, the entire band has agreed, for the first time in their 35-year history, to license a song for an advertisement. The tune, "Pretty Vacant," is featured in the spot below, for U.K. online gambling site William Hill. This comes on the heels of an even more bizarre marketing mashup: the Sex Pistols unisex perfume.

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