Michael (twist@intergate.bc.ca)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 10:02:54 -0700
Wow! It's great to see life on the list...
Someone touched a nerve, and we're all spinning...
As I said before, and I'll say it again, we do have the power to influence
those commercials that piss us off...if you don't like VW or any other
corporation using music you like to get you to buy their product,
DON'T BUY THE PRODUCT!
Believe me, it works.
Don't buy Burger King, VW, Lexus (that really pissed me off...some things
you should just leave alone), Puff Daddy,
or anything else that uses the music to get at your wallet.
There's my 2 cents in a nutshell
(help...I'm in a nutshell...how do I get out of this nutshell...this is
crazy...)
Cheers,
Michael T
Aside: remember good 'ole Moby and that car commercial...and him releasing
Moby's anti-CD remixes of "Go?" On the CD he had a picture of a car with a
line through it (no cars) and wrote that he did not authorize his music to
sell cars.
I bought those remixes.
Artists can influence things to.
At 10:53 AM 10/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>PLEASE!
>
>Heh, you folks may not like it but this is who we are. These corporations
>are just a reflection of who we are. I do not see any one of these companies
>going out of business. No "TRUE" workers revolution. Please.
>
>Juano's 2-1/2 cents
>
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>From: Michael [SMTP:twist@intergate.bc.ca]
><mailto:[SMTP:twist@intergate.bc.ca]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 5:27 PM
>To: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu'
>Subject: RE: More TV ads driveing me crazy
>
> >the use of "hip"
> >music in tv advertisments is frankly a damn shame.
>
>Agreed. It's lame.
> >Corporations whose
> >blatant voracious appetite for new consumers and demographics to
>plague
> >with their shitty products are raping the catalogs of underground
>labels or
> >classic anthems from times gone by. VW using the Orb to
> >captivate twentysomethings into purchasing their tacky new car.
>It's all
> >brash commercialism that should be stopped, but in a free market
>there is
> >no recourse. Except of course to stop patronizing the guilty
>conglomerates.
>
>You can always hit where it hurts most. Stop buying their product. I won't
>buy a VW bug because of this stupid commercial. If nobody bought it, VW
>wouldn't do it.
>The other way you can hit where it hurts is not to buy the Orb. There are
>tons of artists doing much more innovative stuff that commercials ignore.
> >At some point I believe you have to stop and ask yourself and
>others what
> >cultural value comes out of using the Orb in a commercial. None.
>
>I don't think they care about cultural value, only selling VWs. But you
>have to realize that the Orb sold the rights to the song...in other words,
>whoever owns the rights (sometimes, but not always, the artist,) got heaps
>of cash for it.
>This is what's commonly referred to as "selling out," when in reality when
>someone releases an album, they're making money off of it one way or
>another.
>Commercialism cheapens the music. Reduces it to brand recognition.
>Michael
>
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>Michael Twist aka twist@intergate.bc.ca <mailto:twist@intergate.bc.ca>
>"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
> M.K. Ghandi
>
>
>
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Michael Twist aka twist@intergate.bc.ca
"I pity the fool that don't go to school." --Mr. T
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