Howard Stern Archive 2009 _hot_ -

The 2009 Archive does not sound like a greatest hits album. It sounds like a novel written in real-time, where the plot is simply the friction between a massive ego and the crushing weight of reality. It is the sound of a man realizing that he is no longer the court jester, but the king of a kingdom he isn't sure he wants to rule.

Listening to the 2009 archives today feels like visiting a different world. Pre-Censorship: Howard Stern Archive 2009