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I wouldn't care. If I can get past Frenchmen chanting "Rouge!" and pointing at my head, I'm sure Chinese people wont care about this.

Not "at the risk of causing offence or confusion, the black tooth wont actually be fighting a group of autistic kids as the poster may suggest"?

Exactly! Fucking prick. Smashed a bottle of Jagermeister over her head and pissed on her. And then the cheeky cunt asks Jagermeister to sponser their last tour. Cunt. Fucking cunt. I went to see the Chariot support them at the tunnels. Would have loved to stay for BMTH just so I could smack their bastard of a lead singer.

Stonehaven, the greatest town in the greatest country in the world.

Bite the pillow, its going in dry.

What a heap of shite. Thats completely wrong. You can still make a decent living on music without whoring out and changing your music to appeal to the masses. And there are plenty of bands who decline being a "full time" band as a career, purely for the reason that they'd have to change their music completely. Having your band as your living should come around from people liking the music you made, not you making music specifically to sell cd's and tickets.

Enoch Powell is largely misquoted and taken out of context. Eric Clapton claimed it was because a foreigner grabbed his wifes ass at a party, and that he was hammered. And to MrBrown, you realise this countrys economy is completely reliant on the influx of immigrants to sustain jobs, you xenophobic fuck.

The class system died in the battle of the somme. Get with the program.

Yes but music isnt meant to be about good economic sense is it? Its about making what music you want to, not to cater for popular demand. If every band were to follow this system of "good economic sense" then we'd all be different shades of grey. Selling out does exist. They have traded their artistic integrity to make money.

Fleet foxes are horrendously overrated. Strawberry Jam is one of my favourite albums of the year. That and the Jaguar Love Album. Its fucking incredible.

Nah. All his music is shit IMO

Well, my bad habit is I drink from milk cartons. So its a natural progression that I'd smoke out of one.* *May or may not appear logical

Ah right. And he's asking about this on a public forum? Just do what I do man, water, rubber pipe, milk carton and scissors=amazing bong. If thats what yer looking for.

what the fuck is a head shop?

The arguement was that you're "selling out" if you take part in what you protested about in the first place. Not "you're an idiot if you are against playing music to people"

No. It's just outright hypocrisy.

I see your 200 and raise you 300

Can you produce our up and coming set of demos, Stripey?

Me (when I was 15) Ronald MacDonald

It's exciting music. Music that makes you want to move. Music that makes you feel something. Probably why you aren't that into it.

... yeah man, mstrkrft are fucking awesome.

Thing is though, sometimes stupidly broad scottish accents come from whos influenced you and not an attempt to sell out. I myself fell victim to this, not ages ago a heavy scottish accent started creeping into my songs; not as an attempt to "cash in" but because I happened to be listening to a lot of Arab Strap, Sons and Daughters, Xcerts and Woomble. All of them have broad scottish accents. Sometimes you unintentionally rip off your favourite bands chord progressions or riffs, i dont see why it isnt entirely possible to do that with accents.

How can they not be selling out? They were quoted to say they have now started making music to purely generate cash.

i actually came on to start a similar thread. Yeah I am devastated. Because I actually dont mind good indie/pop music, I have nothing against it however; biffys appeal to me were the fact they felt like my wee band with the strange song structures and time changes and things, the outsiders outsider. I would have probably liked Biffy if they started off as a stadium rock band, but they didnt, they changed the music the made, and it seems like they did so purely to sell more tickets and CD's.

I think Stripey has a point, though. Those are the only apparent traits with this group of people, and even if its not the ideals of all of them, it probably was by the people who kick started this whole "hipster" movement.