| Music Through a Cheap Transistor | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Therapy? |
| Cover: | Therapybbcsessions.jpg |
| Released: | 26 February 2007 (download) 13 August 2007 (CD) |
| Recorded: | 1991–1998 |
| Studio: | Maida Vale Studios, London, England |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, alternative metal |
| Length: | 51:35 (CD1) 42:10 (CD2) |
| Label: | Universal |
| Prev Title: | One Cure Fits All |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Crooked Timber |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Music Through a Cheap Transistor is a compilation album by the Northern Irish rock band Therapy?. It was one of the first releases in Universal Records 2007 series of BBC sessions. Originally released as a download only on 26 February 2007, the set was later released on double CD on 13 August 2007.
The album features five different performances by Therapy?, which were recorded between 1991 and 1998 for BBC radio. It includes unique and exclusive versions of some of their greatest hits, alongside live favourites and three previously unreleased tracks: "Pile of Bricks", "The Sweeney" and "Lost Highway" (originally by Hank Williams).
(Aside from the first John Peel Session, the band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Music Group; hence this release.)
"It's very flattering to be in the first batch of artists to have these old sessions made available in their entirety especially in a digital download format. Having existed as scraps on C-90's or as half-forgotten memories, it's brilliant to be able to re-visit so many unique (and one-off) performances and let people see what all the fuss was about..."Michael McKeegan – Therapy?