Billy Bragg

Can you think of a better way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon then inside a record store watching English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg playing a free show? I'm way to broke right now to be spending $45 for a ticket to his show at the Commodore Ballroom tonight, so when i heard that he'd be playing free at Zulu i got very excited.
Zulu Records was starting to fill up shortly after 1pm, and by 2pm the place was jammed full when Billy Bragg strapped on an acoustic guitar adorned with a couple slogans from the Clash. For a man who's been around for so long, it's quite amazing that he's playing for free in a record store and seems quite happy to be doing so. Throughout the 45 minute set he was telling stories, joking with the crowd, and the guys from his road crew. For some reason the person sitting in front of Billy Bragg had a penguin of some sort (not a live one obviously) and this became fodder for many jokes, like during the song "Sexuality" he sang "Bestiality" during the chorus. I was happy he played "Between The Wars", and felt goosebumps when the song started. He closed the set with the classic song "New England, which got the whole crowd singing. It was pretty cool to look around the record store and see so many people singing along with big smiles on their faces.