Comments on: First Person To Ask “Where’s The Beef?” Has Their Entire Slash Records Collection Confiscated http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/ news and views from the Matador brain trust (and the brains we trust) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: sean http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/comment-page-1/#comment-29694 sean Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:46:59 +0000 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=790#comment-29694 It's a lot more complicated than just 'music needs to go here, this guy makes music'. Calling it "this holier than thou indie music b.s. attitude" is exaggerating and compensating for lack of knowledge and any real argument. It's about principles. I, like some others, believe if advertising is going to exist in this world, it should exist on its own. Art (also in my opinion and that of others) should have nothing to do with selling product. Art was always intended sit on the other end of that spectrum. It comes from human emotion, it's raw. Advertising couldn't be further from the human spirit. If fans hear the two intertwined, we feel betrayed, we feel like the emotions we thought we felt when listening to the music, or the principles we trusted in were betrayed, or wrong to perceive. Kind of like being broken up with and told that the person never loved you anyway. That a good enough perception for you? It’s a lot more complicated than just ‘music needs to go here, this guy makes music’. Calling it “this holier than thou indie music b.s. attitude” is exaggerating and compensating for lack of knowledge and any real argument. It’s about principles. I, like some others, believe if advertising is going to exist in this world, it should exist on its own. Art (also in my opinion and that of others) should have nothing to do with selling product. Art was always intended sit on the other end of that spectrum. It comes from human emotion, it’s raw. Advertising couldn’t be further from the human spirit. If fans hear the two intertwined, we feel betrayed, we feel like the emotions we thought we felt when listening to the music, or the principles we trusted in were betrayed, or wrong to perceive. Kind of like being broken up with and told that the person never loved you anyway.

That a good enough perception for you?

]]> By: RT http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/comment-page-1/#comment-27654 RT Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:14:23 +0000 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=790#comment-27654 Why would anyone want to use a song called "Blister in The Sun" to sell food..doesnt strike up the best image... then again.. have you ever had Wendy's Chili...... ? Why would anyone want to use a song called “Blister in The Sun” to sell food..doesnt strike up the best image… then again.. have you ever had Wendy’s Chili…… ?

]]> By: eastside http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/comment-page-1/#comment-27383 eastside Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:34:23 +0000 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=790#comment-27383 Amen, Justin. I am pretty sick of this holier-than-thou indie music b.s. attitude when it comes to providing music for adverts. Many musicians struggle to make ends meet--why begrudge them the opportunity to put a baconator or two on their tables? Amen, Justin. I am pretty sick of this holier-than-thou indie music b.s. attitude when it comes to providing music for adverts. Many musicians struggle to make ends meet–why begrudge them the opportunity to put a baconator or two on their tables?

]]> By: Justin http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/comment-page-1/#comment-27303 Justin Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:20:52 +0000 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=790#comment-27303 Why do people care if music they like is used in a commercial? I really want someone to explain it to me. Wendy's needed music, Gordon Gano makes music. Sounds like a useful partnership. Devo's songs are in fucking everything! Does it make "Are We Not Men?" any less awesome? Negative. Why do people care if music they like is used in a commercial? I really want someone to explain it to me. Wendy’s needed music, Gordon Gano makes music. Sounds like a useful partnership. Devo’s songs are in fucking everything! Does it make “Are We Not Men?” any less awesome? Negative.

]]> By: Brian Turner http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/comment-page-1/#comment-26918 Brian Turner Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:23:58 +0000 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=790#comment-26918 Sorry, dunno why that link changed in translation, well the direct MP3 download: http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2007/07/206_1_Coyote_McCloud_and_Clara_Peller_-_Where's_The_Beef.mp3 Sorry, dunno why that link changed in translation, well the direct MP3 download:

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2007/07/206_1_Coyote_McCloud_and_Clara_Peller_-_Where's_The_Beef.mp3

]]> By: Brian Turner http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2007/08/16/first-person-to-ask-wheres-the-beef-has-their-entire-slash-records-collection-confiscated/comment-page-1/#comment-26917 Brian Turner Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:22:17 +0000 http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=790#comment-26917 Seriously, Wendy's could have circumvented the hassle and just gone with the ready-made-hit: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/365-days-206---.html Seriously, Wendy’s could have circumvented the hassle and just gone with the ready-made-hit:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/365-days-206—.html

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