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The Beastie Boys won $668,000 in attorney’s fees from Monster Energy in addition to a $1.7 million jury award over the company’s use of the iconic band’s songs in a promotional video, court records show.

Monster unnecessarily prolonged the court fight by trying to blame the DJ who played the trio’s tunes with permission at a 2012 music event, Manhattan federal court Judge Paul Engel­mayer wrote in his decision.

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