Been Caught Stealing

We live in an unoriginal age of recycled music, with a preponderance of cover versions, "songs" that amount to nothing more than original gems cannibalized by lazy producers and a music industry apparently unable to appreciate the irony of hounding "stealing" file sharers.
But enough of my soap box.
The great, newcomer music blog 2 Minutes of Bliss 2, located here, recently posted the 1972 soul instrumental "Sliced Tomatoes" by The Just Brothers.
Apart from being a catchy track, it serves to underline my point.
The composition -- featuring a twangy surf-rock guitar part -- was used liberally when Fatboy Slim created his "Rockafeller Skank." Now, I love Fatboy Slim (all the way back to the Housemartins days), and he does add other sounds to the mix to create a gumbo effect.
Others, however, are not so careful with the vintage music they have recycled. The end result is a dearth of talent... and declining music sales, perhaps?