Great Things Posted On Social Media

[marckee]

It’s been posted on twitter loads, so I wouldn’t worry about people not having Facebook, tbh.

[1101010]

Meant more I don’t know how much FB fucks with non-members trying to view globally shared videos, whereas I know that anyone can view a public Tweet.

[1101010]

I’ll take it.

[manches]

[hexagram]

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[NoahVale]

[maggieloveshopey]

Cool be damned, I have loved Chumbawamba for almost thirty years, and this just makes me love them a little bit more.

[funkycow]

Great read, not really listened to Art Brut, but on the basis of that excellent bit of amusing humility, I might do now.

[sky_box_office]

How do you feel about a band that proclaims to be anarchists signing to a major record label?

This isn’t meant to be a troll, it’s a genuine question.

[marckee]

Woah. Cc @laelfy

SPORTbible

[laelfy]

Yeah this was all over my Twitter- almost posted it for you too. When you see all the internationals applauding it on Twitter you know it’s pretty special!

[maggieloveshopey]

It’s an endlessly thorny question, isn’t it? I think my take is that in the end it’s all profit driven capitalism, and that your soul is just as sullied signing for One Little Indian as it is Universal. The only difference is degree, and it’s fair to say that they had fun with the scope being on a major gave them (and I’m sure they’d be the first to say that EMI got what they wanted out of the relationship as well), eg:

In 2002, General Motors paid Chumbawamba a sum of either $70,000 or $100,000, to use the song “Pass It Along” from the WYSIWYG album, for a Pontiac Vibetelevision advertisement in 2002. Chumbawamba gave the money to the anti-corporate activist groups Indymedia and CorpWatch who used the money to launch an information and environmental campaign against GM.[19] [20]

But the important takeaway here is that a Chumbawamba gig circa 1992 was one of the very best nights out you could ever have.

Mind you, I’ve just looked at the version of the Anarchy album that’s on streaming services. The cover of mine doesn’t look like that…

[sarahispi]

Taylor Swift Updates (LegitTayUpdates)

Taylor Swift Updates (LegitTayUpdates)

A wild ride in two whole tweets.

[hip_young_gunslinger]

I know someone who was in one of the bands he mentioned, I told them and they were like “I had no idea Eddie Argos used to hate me” and seemed a bit upset.

[sky_box_office]

This is a fake Twitter account. From what I know about Taylor Swift she would love the opportunity to send missiles into a Palestinian school.

[1101010]

I assumed sarahispi was referring to Israel jailing the person running the account for refusing to be conscripted into the army as being a total headfuck, TBH.

[1101010]

How do you feel about a band that proclaims to be anarchists signing to a major record label?

This isn’t meant to be a troll, it’s a genuine question.

I mean I’d refer you to Rage Against the Machine addressing this sort of query:

Some critics have accused the group of hypocrisy for voicing commitment to leftist causes while being millionaires signed to Epic Records, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Sony Records.[128] Infectious Grooves released a song called “Do What I Tell Ya!” which mocks lyrics from “Killing in the Name”, accusing the band of being hypocrites.[129][130] In response to such critiques, Morello stated:

When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that’s where people buy their books. We’re not interested in preaching to just the converted. It’s great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it’s also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart.[11]

De la Rocha stated:

Yeah, to get as many people as possible to join the political debate, to get the dialogue going. I was wondering today, why would anyone climb to the roof of the American Embassy with a banner that says “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal”, why do you do that? That’s to get the international press’ attention. The international network that Sony has available, is to me the perfect tool you know, it can get even more people to join a revolutionary awareness and fight.[131]

I seem recall how at the time of Play coming out Moby was massively anti car and other stuff, and being surprised to hear his tracks all over adverts for a load of different products including cars, but in an interview he said something about how if the advertisers couldn’t get his songs they’d just hire someone to write a tune similar enough to avoid copyright and use that, so he figured he’d take the money and use it for other causes.

[sky_box_office]

I just googled bad things that Sony has done to see what evil things RATM have contributed money towards.

Just a bunch of gaming nerds going “backwards compatability.” These video game companies are immune because gamers have the weirdest morals.

[profk]

fucking love the rubberbandits. lived with an ex disser for a year during uni, and her brother came to visit for the weekend from ireland, smoked up with us (told us not to say anything but it’s been nearly 10 years now so fuck it) and put this on, amongst a tonne of really decent music -

[sarahispi]

I know that? It’s very obvious it’s a fake account, why on earth would an American Christian be conscripted into the IDF?