Mac DeMarco's "Salad Days" Kontroversy

Mac DeMarco, working out the Kinks.
Mac DeMarco is playing tonight at the Moore Theatre. Emily Nokes says it's going to be good and she's pretty much always right. (Also, openers The Courtneys sounded fantastic on KEXP last weekend.) DeMarco is fairly new to my radar screen, and his style is down my alley, but something about his song "Salad Days" wasn't sitting quite right. Then I realized it was its similarity to the Kinks' song "Picture Book." (Then I found out the internet was a few months a