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Started by chadk, Jun 20 2008 05:48 PM

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#1 chadk

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Posted 20 June 2008 - 05:48 PM

or is there a new Macdonald's commercial that has wolf parade singing "2 all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese on a sesame seed bun"?

i have to be tripping right?

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#2 hunter

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Posted 20 June 2008 - 06:51 PM

You're surprised that some dumb indie rock band would sell out to do a commercial for one of the biggest corporations in the world?

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#3 HaikuNoU

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Posted 21 June 2008 - 06:07 PM

Royksopp in a Geico commercial, Dimitri From Paris in a car commercial, Boards of Canada in a GMC advert and Hum in a Cadillac commercial.
oh yeah, wasn't that Mouse on Mars in that one Intel commercial?
sounds like business as usual. bleh.

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#4 weener

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Posted 21 June 2008 - 08:50 PM

Final Fantasy did a Becel Margarine commercial. However, he wouldn't sell one of his existing songs, he wrote something just for them. I still love him, though. :wub:

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#5 chadk

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 08:14 AM

You're surprised that some dumb indie rock band would sell out to do a commercial for one of the biggest corporations in the world?

not surprised that they would sell the rights, but to actually sing the big mac song. eh your right cash rules every thing around me

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All the time when I tell people what I do they say, "Oh I don't understand art, I can't even draw." (or worse, "I only like art I can understand.") Well, ya know what, I don't know how to make a car, but I sure appreciate being able to drive one.

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#6 Quezo

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:08 PM

You're surprised that some dumb indie rock band would sell out to do a commercial for one of the biggest corporations in the world?

cash rules every thing around me

CREAM! Get the money! Dolla dolla bill y'all!

I'm looking forward to selling out.

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#7 unluckycharm

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:21 PM

i already have
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#8 jomama

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:22 PM

CREAM! Get the money! Dolla dolla bill y'all!

I'm looking forward to selling out.

nobody is surprised by that last comment.

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#9 Hooray For Everything

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:34 PM

You're surprised that some dumb indie rock band would sell out to do a commercial for one of the biggest corporations in the world?

What makes it a sell-out?

Maybe their "dream" was to make music AND make money.

Maybe they're not so dumb.

maybe they're not so "Indie".

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#10 eraser

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:36 PM

This reminds me of the time that the entertainment world was in the midst of Macauley-mania, and Macauley Culkin landed some ridiculous endorsement with Sprite.

When asked if he signed the deal because Sprite was his favorite drink, he replied, "Eh - I drink it, but it's not like I'm crazy about the stuff."

I think it can be cheesy when some songs get used in commercials and whatnot, but I'm not sure what's considered selling out any more.

Dudes who are ready to sell off as many songs as possible to mega-corporations at the drop of the hat - that's kind of weird, but once you're in the realm of trying to sell your music, whether just mp3s, CD-Rs, or full, fancy albums, the line between commerce and art (and trying to make a living in between them) gets kind of blurred anyway.

"I'd like to have more money than I have/
I know that that's not punk/
but I'd like to pay my rent ..." - AJJ

I don't know ... It strikes me that most people would love to earn a living based on doing something that they love or on something related to something they love. It's pretty admirable that some folks (artists) have guidelines and ethics of things they will and won't do (and its conversely pretty cruddy when it seems that some folks are willing to do anything to get money in their grubby little paws), but I think people have to (and probably do) set their own guidelines, rather than to live up to some prefabricated notion of not selling out.

It's a thin, blurry line ... probably less of a line than a stream of milk poured into coffee - at some point, there's no separating the two.

I don't know ... who cares?

I hope that everyone who sells out remembers to buy ice cream for the kids in their neighborhood every once in a while.

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#11 Quezo

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:38 PM

CREAM! Get the money! Dolla dolla bill y'all!

I'm looking forward to selling out.

nobody is surprised by that last comment.

nobody i$ $urpri$ed by that la$t comment.

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#12 hunter

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Posted 23 June 2008 - 01:40 PM

That dumb cunt Kimya Dawson sold one of her songs to some stupid resort commercial:

http://musicslut.blo...t-atlantis.html

Who cares? In the big picture, I think the whole "ethics" of music is bullshit. Make money and go crazy. If a band no longer plays songs you like, fuck it.