So, does WWE sell old theme songs?
 

So my wife likes to watch HGTV in the mornings and this show was on and I heard the old Hardy Boyz theme during it. May be a stupid question, but how would they get hold of that music?

They didn't.

You forgot to take your medication this morning and you imagined it.

Its just stock music,it features on alot of stuff apparently.

A lot of themes are nothing more than production music, songs you can license for a broad variety of things. This is also why WWF/E didn't include a lot of themes on their "The music/whatever" CDs, because they don't actually own the rights.

They would get ahold of such music by going through a production music company's catalogue. Same way WWE no doubt did.

I've heard alot of them in video games (hardyz, dudleys) some on espn (hardcore holly) and on various tv (mason ryan and others)...

Don't forget the first Uso's/Tamina theme used in that body wash commercial... WHILE it was still being used for their entrance.

But, yeah, the Hardyz theme and Baldcore Holly/Holly Cousins music seems to get around a lot. Oddly enough, and only semi-related, an instrumental to one song from the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater seems to get around quite a bit as well (The Ernies - Here and Now).

chris benoit's wcw theme was in a porno

Morbid curiousity but which one?

Chris Jericho's first WCW theme was Basketball Highlights #12.

Hardcore Holly's was in Dodgeball.

The Hardyz theme was being used by Spike while they were with WWE on USA, as well.

I wonder if TNA could legally license them for use with former WWE talent or if WWE could call brand confusion/trademark infringement since those songs are connected to those wrestlers (say, the Dudleys theme).

It's easier for them to just do knockoffs, WCW style. Harder to sue.

I honestly don't think they could argue brand confusion over stock music, but WWE'd have a better foothold there than with the ripoffs they usually do.

HE'S AMER-ER-ER-ER-ICAN... MAY-EE-AYED!!!

I remember back in the day, someone actually bought Corporate Minsitry's 2nd theme. Ya know the one which had shane's voice in the background??. And it got released...

Yep...WWE has licensed a lot of those songs for use as themes or in video packages and whatnot. The one that always springs to mind for me is

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Love that theme.

Cactus Jack in the porno.

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