Maybe Aphex believes in the anti-drug campaign, eh?
.Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Mikkel Eriksen [mailto:Carthagtuek@softhome.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:34 AM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [idm] Re: Aphex drugs etc...
Warp records arent sellouts either... the song wasnt changed or anything.
you've misunderstood the meaning of the word sellout. its been said in this
thread before, & ill just repeat it: selling out is compromising your
artistic freedom to gain money/fame.
-Carthh---
Josh Brown said at Ò[idm] Re: Aphex drugs etc...Ó.
[May/09/2001 20:22]
quoted 23 lines so anyway, we have established that Aphex probably doesn't even know
> so anyway, we have established that Aphex probably doesn't even know
> that his music is being used to fight the drug war. This means that the
> question I asked in my initial post: Is Aphex a sellout? can be answered
> "No." and can be replaced by the declaration that Warp records must be
> the sellouts...
>
> Personally, if my label (not that I have one) sold my song to be used in
> an anti-drug or an anti-choice or anti anything else I believed in
> propaganda, I would sever my relationship with them and have a press
> release protesting agaist it, but just because Aphex isn't doing this
> doesn't mean he's a sellout. Maybe it means nothing whatsoever... It
> won't affect my listening to him at all, just like the beatles Nike ad
> doesn't affect my listening to the Beatles... Now, metallica is another
> story, because thoese guys personally attacked Napster... AND they had
> in the past admitted to trading tapes in their formative years....
>
> once again, peace out my brothers and sisters in music madness
>
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