devendra banhart/mike skinner get paid...

[chio]

Worse in what way? Cos he made more money, and that's bad? Unless you're comparing a cheese advert with a trainer advert, and just saying you prefer the cheese one... Same rules apply, surely?

No - because there's a difference between having your record played on the telly with a video of a car or something and having your face splashed over a logo on posters everywhere.

 

[ether]

Cheese is better than trainers. Trainers are made in sweatshops. Cheese is made in dairies.

Do the cows get a wage? Hehe

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm assuming it was for a particular cheese.

I need hard proof.

Hard proof.

 

[pilchardman]

Do the cows get a wage? Hehe

Yes: all the grass they can eat.

 

[ether]

No - because there's a difference between having your record played on the telly with a video of a car or something and having your face splashed over a logo on posters everywhere.

I don't get it. I'm not trying to be obtuse. Can you explain the difference?

 

[chio]

One's flogging a record to a business who thinks their target demographic will like it.

The other is selling your name, image and endorsement to a business.

 

[silentNate]

Not necessarily haters, but perhaps... people with a different opinion about where he was coming from than he had. I don't have a problem myself, I think corporate deals fit in with his persona perfectly well, it's not like he's Fugazi or something

Always preferred consolidated meself

 

[ether]

One's flogging a record to a business who thinks their target demographic will like it.

The other is selling your name, image and endorsement to a business.

Sorry, still don't get it. What's the essential difference between a record on one hand, and name, image and endorsement on the other?

In both cases the artist is using their position as an artist to get money for what they have produced. Either one could refuse the company's offer. Neither did.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Always preferred consolidated meself

*gets out Consolidated CDs*

*remembers that they were a bit crap*

*puts on Siouxsie And The Banshees instead*

*finds "Play More Music"*

*moshes out to the gun control one*

 

[moose]

I seem to remember Apple getting a slating here for using "I fought the Law" - neither written nor performed by the Clash - for 'selling out' Strummer's memory, whereas the Clash allowed Should I stay or should I go', written and performed by themselves, to be used by Levis. Different things offend different peeps.

 

[WasGeri]

Mike Skinner wears Reebok - what is the problem with him endorsing them?

Does Devendra Banhart even eat cheese?

 

[ether]

Mike Skinner wears Reebok - what is the problem with him endorsing them?

Does Devendra Banhart even eat cheese?

 

[Firky]

Both artists have recently been "exposed" on Urban as having taken the devil's dollar. DB gets a few "hmm, that's a shame. At least he didn't do xyz" comments. MS gets excoriated, with lots of anger expressed.

Why is there this difference?

tch, catch up urban. devendra banhart is so alt.music.radiohead 1999