title: npm install SyntaxError: Unexpected token C
body: <p>I made some changes to the npm configuration in the previous days, and now I consistently receive the same error while trying to install any of a variety of packages. Essentially, I cannot utilize npm anymore due to what I think is a personal erroneous change to npm settings.</p>
  <p>I have uninstalled node and npm, and re-installed, and tried the configuration settings in the npm blog, and I still get the same error. Perhaps it has to do with permissions in Cellar directory? I thought I had taken care of that previously...</p>
  <p>It is not clear to me what is the issue and would appreciate your help very much.</p>
  <p>Error output is below:</p>
  <pre>npm ERR! registry error parsing json
  npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token C
  npm ERR! Cannot GET http://registry.npmjs.org/node-simple-router
  npm ERR!     at Object.parse (native)
  npm ERR!     at RegClient. (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:203:23)
  npm ERR!     at Request.self.callback (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/request.js:123:22)
  npm ERR!     at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
  npm ERR!     at Request. (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/request.js:893:14)
  npm ERR!     at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
  npm ERR!     at IncomingMessage. (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.26/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/request.js:844:12)
  npm ERR!     at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
  npm ERR!     at _stream_readable.js:920:16
  npm ERR!     at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)
  npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log,
  npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
  npm ERR!     </pre>
  <p>The output of <code>npm config list</code> generates:</p>
  <pre>$ npm config list
  ; cli configs
  registry = "http://registry.npmjs.org/"
  
  ; userconfig /Users/rfatahi/.npmrc
  ca = ""
  https-proxy = "http://127.0.0.1:8888/"
  proxy = "http://127.0.0.1:8888/"
  registry = "http://registry.npmjs.org/"
  strict-ssl = true
  
  ; builtin config undefined
  prefix = "/usr/local"
  
  ; node bin location = /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.26/bin/node
  </pre>