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The Beatles, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, and countless others have been featured in commercials but i don't hear people giving them shit so why is shpongle any different?

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They arent different. I think they are sell-outs as well - perhaps not in their days (1960s,70s) but decades after their creative emergence when they were fat and greedy and jaded (or even not in control of licensing).

Do you think John Lennon would ever sell the song "Imagine" to Coca-Cola? Ever wonder why not? I mean, it would be marketing firm's wetdream - Asian kids holding hands with Arab dudes sharing a Coke and smiling in a rainbow 

bi0 said:

I doubt that. I think once creative and counter-culture is assimiliated into the mainstream spectacle machine, it's brilliance is voided. Think of how many psychedelic rock songs and punk songs (very radical stuff back in their time) have been featured on dumb commericals. How do most people react? They either begin to hate the song due to the commerical being played over and over...they consider the artists sell-outs (like myself)...or they go out and buy the product being hocked on the commerical.

If they dont get the music on their own, they wont get it from a commerical.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will start with turning off the tv.

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I guess I think that psychedelic culture needs to adapt if we really want the change we are always yammering about.  There's a reason wny the BORG in Star Trek were such a successful people...they knew how to adapt. 

Getting rid of TV to turn people onto issues... How likely is that to happen?  USING TV as a medium to spread correct information...that's much more applicable AND it's happening already. 

Just my 27 cents!! 

Now for some BORG. 

tomk said:

What if the shpongle music were being used to sell a good product. Like organic foods or hybrid cars or something like that, where it's a good that's produced responsibly as a substitute good for one that is not used responsibility.

Even with Bill Hicks, the problem was that the products being endorsed are so obviously shitty (doritos, etc). I don't see an ethical problem with using your music to sell good things that the world would be better off with if more people used. If shpongle was being used to sell mcdonalds products, that's a lot different then using it to sell gardenburgers.

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