Whines about corporate influence of society then signs with a huge music corporation. Something about that...
Time-Life-Warner owns Turner-CNN. There was a spin off of WEA (Warner Entertainment) some years back but I don’t know if they still all reside under the same general corporate umbrella.
The “new” payola?
I heard you there. I remember a radio promo for a Morrisey concert that was sponsored by Coca-Cola. The promo was something like “Coca-Cola presents MORRISEY! the anti-hero of a generation.” I remember thinking, So the anti-hero of a generation has a corporate sponsor now. Cool!