Posted on 08/19/2004 10:00:54 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Absolutely not. Haven't heard of many of them either.
Oh no! It's the attack of the sucky bands! We're doomed!
I'll feel free to download their music for free if I want to hear it. Well, I might have done that anyway, but now I can feel justified.
Attention Roeper: When I want bad film reviews, I'll read you. Otherwise, shut the hell up.
Why is it that it's okay for liberals to boycott conservatives but when conservatives fight back and boycott them, THEN "This is America and we have a right to believe whatever we want" blah, blah, blah?
Pretty lame all in all. I guess Roeper is never going to get it.
Those Liberal idiots think they're entitled to a pass on everything...
Thank you Mr. Roeper for listing the anti-Bush musicians for me, now I can boycott them without having to research the views of every musician!
Almost none of the names mentioned do I even care about. Copying music without paying for it is so easy these days that liberal musicians are probably seeing their glory days coming to an end anyway. I do like REM and have one song that my daughter got from Pepsi I-tunes. Does that count?
Roeper misses the point. I assume my favorite musicians are liberals until proven otherwise; and I don't mind as long as they're more or less quiet about it. I'm not saying have no right to say these things, only that I go to musicians for music, not for politics.
To the point: It's fine if musicians (or actors for that matter) and I disagree about who to vote for. It gets to be a problem when they makes so much noise about their views that their politics overshadows ther music or movies.
Seems to me that all Ms. O' Grady in doing in buying free publicity for the Anti Bush Concert.
This is America. We're supposed to celebrate our differences and the right to express them. I'm sure my bookshelves and DVD and CD racks include works by individuals who are Republicans, atheists or short. I'm none of those, but it doesn't affect my appreciation of the work itself.
Yes, we are supposed to celebrate our differences and the right to express them. However, the right to free speech does not include the right to be heard. If Springsteen and the rest of these folks on the "listen to me" tour would play their music without infusing it with their politics, then conservatives would have no problem with them.
But they want, desperately, to be relevant - to make sure the world conforms to their myopic views. Conservatives have every right to express our own views, even when we "vote with our feet". You are entitled to your own opinion, sir. Your are also entitled to express your opinion.
But I am entitled, along with all of my compatriots, to borrow a "saucy" phrase from elsewhere in the political realm and tell you to "SHOVE IT".
I wonder if liberals avoid the Declaration of Independence because Jefferson had slaves and they think that if conservatives are deprived of pop music it would be an equivalent deprivation.
The bottom line is that if you are in the entertainment business, you have to weigh the risks of expressing your politic views against the possibility that you will alienate your audience. If you alienate enough customers, you should expect your ability to sell tickets or CDs to be harmed. Free speech is a two-way street.
So if I think Roper is a liberal hack stamping out a tatoo in his heels and I choose to avoid reading his tripe I'm wrong?
Oh please. He's afraid of choice. Isn't that what listening is after all? Choice.
You can choose to screech and I can choose not to listen.
I guess I'm pro-choice after all! ( ;
I didn't even know I was boycotting most of these groups.
No, hell no, no, no, no, no, no, who the hell are they?, what the deuce?, no, no, no, no, I hate rap, no, and absolutely not.
Even better--upload some and share their music with others....
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