Before YouTube or streaming services, illegal mashups of two popular songs were popular to trade on P2Ps like Napster mostly used for pirating, and for DJs to swap or give limited "bootleg" releases to in trusted shops, because they'd be a logistical nightmare to clear the "samples" that make up the entire song. Just ask mashup deity Girl Talk, whose albums only surfaced on a label called Illegal Art for a reason.

Fatboy Slim, thriving as one of the world's biggest DJs at the time, was throwing a blend of The Rolling Stones' classic "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and his own smash "The Rockafeller Skank" (you know, "right about now / the funk soul brother," etc.) in his sets all the way back in 1998. It made the rounds on the illicit file circuit and kicks off a pretty great unofficial album worth seeking out from 2002 entitled The Best Bootlegs in the World Ever, which is sort of a greatest hits collection from the first wave of the mashup phenomenon, including "A Stroke of Genie-Us," a swirl of the Strokes and Christina Aguilera, and the stone classic "Smells Like Booty," an explosion of Destiny's Child meeting Nirvana. (The hidden track was Sigur Rós laid beneath "My Heart Will Go On.")

Naturally, the opening cut was the Fatboy/Stones edit, then credited to "DJ EZG" and called "Rockerfaction," and that closed the door on that.

Slim, aka Norman Cook, claims he tried to get the rights "four times, and I wouldn't have dared to ask them again" after receiving a "pretty flat 'no' for 20 years." Cook says Mick Jagger called him "and he said he'd heard it and he liked the mix," but management quashed it, even though the Stones did commission him to remix their classic "Sympathy for the Devil" with plans for the mashup to originally appear as the b-side.

Until now.

Fatboy Slim has now officially released the track after decades of trying to secure the rights to the Stones borrowing. According to the BBC, it was the Stones who reached out to Cook this time and even delivered the original "Satisfaction" master tapes "in an armored van" so he could update his original mix in higher quality. It's now called "Satisfaction Skank," which probably isn't better, and comes with a new official music video made with AI, which definitely isn't.

You can watch below and finally hear the song without resorting to crime.