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In addition to making their band easily accessible to farm kids, Queens of the Stone Age are making it easy for Europeans to hear their renditions of songs by Tom Waits and Elliott Smith.

Available from their European online store now, the limited edition digipack of "Sick Sick Sick" (the first single from new album Era Vulgaris-- out June 12 on Interscope) features covers of Waits' "Goin' Out West" and Smith's "Christian Brothers" as B-sides, along with a remix of Era Vulgaris track "I'm Designer".

You can hear the Waits cover streaming from the player that launches when you click on the link to the web store.

QOTSA fans on this side of the Atlantic will have to content themselves with import prices and shipping (or that dang internet burning thing), but we do get the "Duluth Tour". Okay, we're happy again.

Thanks to reader Jackson Albracht for the tip.