Alvin and the Chipmunks do Punk

This is not some cute mashup video. This is an actual commercial for an album that you could order from television in 1980-1.

What stuns me is the claim that that the album had sold 1 million copies before this particular version of the commercial aired. I will say that again. One Million Copies.

It was the group's first gold album, and one of the reasons that Alvin and the Chipmunks returned to television in the early 1980's.

But then again, this album would also be one of the reasons that we were also tortured by that CGI cinematic abomination last year, so the bad really outweighs the good here.

Tags: alvin and the chipmunks, chipmunk punk, animation, 1980's cartoons, punk, new wave