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Real Music, Maaaaaaaan - Yeah right

 
 
JohnnyYen
11:30 / 20.02.03
NME/Steve Lamacq/Later with Jools Holand favourites Turin Brakes are going to be in the top ten this week. And why? Because the single's only 99p and only out for one week.

Can someone explain why this is less evil than Popstars - The Rivals and so on?
 
 
beatorbebeat
12:54 / 20.02.03
It's not. Anyway you slice it, money runs the music machine.
 
 
JohnnyYen
13:04 / 20.02.03
You'll notice it wasn't Geri Halliwell, Steps or Pete Waterman who had a hissy fit about P2P either - it was the same twats who'd spent years telling us they "just do what they do and if anyone else likes it or we get rich it's a bonus". Fine lot of shite that turned out to be.
 
 
rizla mission
13:11 / 20.02.03
quite.
 
 
JohnnyYen
16:14 / 20.02.03
Damn, I was hoping someone'd get all annoyed. It's no bloody fun if you all agree with me.

Never mind, I'm sure 259 [iivix] 'll be here soon to tell us only townie pikey scum like pop music.
 
 
deja_vroom
16:55 / 20.02.03
Only townie pikey scum like pop music.
 
 
JohnnyYen
19:31 / 20.02.03
I'm gonna get a t-shirt made with "TOWNY PIKEY SCUMBAG AND PROUD OF IT" on the front then. S Club shit on Coldplay.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:52 / 21.02.03
You want to check out this thread, Johnny, you do you do you do.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:00 / 21.02.03
I think it is a bit silly to be taking the crass actions of some people to be some kind of "ah! see! you indie-integrity-music first types are all capitalist bastards too!" sort of thing. There are millions of musicians worldwide who are doing it themselves, DIY/indie style without being jerks about it, or embracing shady corporate practices not disimilar from what lots of major label artists have done to keep them in the public eye, displayed in the record shops, and played on the tv/radio.

Please don't try to lump all the non-popstar musicians together, okay?
 
 
No star here laces
16:10 / 21.02.03
Yes, Coldwater Suplex have never sold out to the man.
 
  
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