Vinyl LP pressing. Black Market Music is the third studio album by Placebo. The album took nine months to record, from between late 1999 to mid-2000; the longest that the band have ever spent recording an album to date. Four singles were released from the album: Taste in Men, Slave to the Wage, Special K and Black-Eyed. The album reached #6 in the UK Albums Chart. Taste in Men, Days Before You Came, Special K, Spite and Malice, Passive Aggressive, Black-Eyed, Blue American, Slave to the Wage, Commercial for Levi, Haemoglobin, Narcoleptic, Peeping Tom