ok, i'm scratching my head here on a few of your points, the most obvious of which is your big anti-corporate stance, which is fine, really. i'm not a big fan of big, global corporations or corporate rock, either, for that matter. but just
how vehemently anti-corporate are you? or can any of us really be in this day and age, unless, of course, you're living like Grizzly Adams in a log cabin up in the mountains somewhere?
just wondering here, but do you use myspace or facebook? if so, how much time do you spend on those sites? do you use Google to search for stuff or for email or anything? talk about corporate takeover of our culture! it doesn't get much worse than that. especially regarding facebook and the way they subjugate your privacy specifically for the marketing of their advertisers! woah, man. i don't know about you but i'd say that's a lot worse than anything Scion could ever hope to do. so please tell me you're not supporting that, either.
what about a cell phone? have one of those? which big evil corporation do you send your hard-earned money to every month for that luxury? AT&T? Verizon? Sprint?
how about the internet. do you own a computer? which corporation did you support by purchasing one of those? IBM? Dell? Apple? HP? Microsoft? and which corporation controls your internet connection? or do you just use the library's? that's cool, i guess. someone else is paying for it somewhere then.
do you like chuck taylors? you know they're made by nike, right? ever looked into the business practices of that corporation? just curious.
maybe you don't drive a car or use gasoline to power your car if you do. do you bike everywhere or rely totally on public transportation? from your POV it sounds like it's easier than i'm thinking, so i hope so.
and i hope you don't have any music in your personal collection on labels like Warner Bros., Columbia, Atlantic, BMG, Decca, Polygram, etc. if you do, you probably just bought these used or downloaded them illegally. cool.
so how bad can it be for you to maybe take a look at what one or two corporations are doing in this topic to maybe think, just once, that maybe what these corporations are doing isn't all that bad? Or at least tell us what evil things Scion and Vice are doing that would give us reason to hate them for being unethical. i mean, it's not like they're giving these bands boatloads of money and forcing them to become more mainstream. all they're doing is promoting music, much of it to a new audience. true, they are gatekeepers in this regard, so they're obviously filtering out some of it, and yes, perhaps some of the more gritty of the bunch, but it sounds like just because some of these bands aren't to your taste that you're taking up arms against the whole lot.
or is it just because this whole music thing is somehow so much more important than all that other everyday life stuff to mean that you can support those other corporations for their intrusions into your life, but when it comes to the music you love, it's HELL, NO, MAN. that's going too far!!
come on.
you also said "when you interview these bands and they don't have any reference point for the music they're playing..." a couple questions:
which bands have you interviewed about this and can we read them? please post links. you apparently seem to know a lot about them since you say they "don't know anything about" all these other bands that came before them, so you must have some sort of proof to back this up, otherwise you're no more than a Rush Limbaugh of garage rock (one who makes sweeping generalizations and states opinion as fact without actually backing any of it up with, you know, PROOF).
if not, then i'm afraid i'd have to call bullshit on your point of view, man.
Count Brockula said:Couple of things...
I am anti-corporate. ... I avoid all corporate culture as much as possible and it's easier than you'd think.
When you interview some of these bands and they don't have any reference point for the music they're playing, it makes you wonder. They don't know anything about the 60s bands or even the 80s garage bands that made all of this possible. They don't know anything about the people who built this from the ground up. ... I call bullshit on most of these newer bands.
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