Hmm looks like the p option just preserves permissions, so I'm not sure why that would fail.

Here's my full output:
```bash
wget -qO - https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 | tar xjf - && ls -al phantomjs-* && rm -r phantomjs-*                                                            ]
total 56
drwxr-xr-x    8 ericboehs  staff    272 Jun  5 12:56 .
drwx------   43 ericboehs  staff   1462 Aug  2 22:37 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 ericboehs  staff  14945 Jun  5 12:56 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--    1 ericboehs  staff   1429 Jun  5 12:56 LICENSE.BSD
-rw-r--r--    1 ericboehs  staff   3957 Jun  5 12:56 README.md
drwxr-xr-x    3 ericboehs  staff    102 Jun  5 12:56 bin
drwxr-xr-x  102 ericboehs  staff   3468 Jun  5 12:56 examples
-rw-r--r--    1 ericboehs  staff   1888 Jun  5 12:56 third-party.txt
```