Year/Genre: 1973 Rock
Matrix #: SD 2-806
Condition: VG+
Description: This Buffalo Springfield 2×LP includes “For What It’s Worth,” a protest anthem often mistaken as being about the 1970 Kent State shootings. Kent State’s defining song was actually “Ohio,” written by Neil Young after seeing the LIFE magazine photos; it was recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young within days and rush-released in 1970. “For What It’s Worth” predates that—written in 1966 about the Sunset Strip curfew clashes in L.A.—but both tracks became touchstones of American student protest culture and 1960s–70s political music.