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Storm Rider:
I really think the only reason Slayer sells more records than everyone else in the thrash scene except Metallica is because they are waaaaay into the Satanist thing. Hence, every idiot teenager trying to piss off their parents by wearing shit with pentagrams blasts them at full volume and everyone suffers.
But I hate Slayer, and I've said shit like this in the past, so... carry on.
beat mouse:
Sony went around spraypainting PSP adverts in graffiti areas. They were all painted over and insulted/boycotted by many of the areas. The use of graffiti for corperate advertisement is so mindboggling it makes me sick.
sjbrot:
Not only that, but once the PSP adverts were sprayed over by artists, Sony employees would come back out, usually within less than a day, and re-do the adverts. That particular situation just makes me sad.
Storm Rider:
Sony's effort to market the PSP as the 'street' game system is just generally stupid and highly distasteful from my perspective.
But what the hell does any of this have to do with music?
jcknbl:
Well its relevant in that the same thing happens with music all the time: the underground is constantly being co-opted and sold-off some way or another. For years record companies have been taking underground aesthetics and painting their manufactured pop bands with them. It happens with just about every aspect of culture actually. Labels have already begun to sign any accessible band they can label as indie. It won't take long for corporations to start manufacturing the rest of the culture. Five years from now everyone on MTV will be smoking cloves and talking about Donnie Darko( (ok, not quite).
The question is two-fold. Is it really the end of the world if our culture is co-opted and is their any way of preventing it?
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