RAGGGGggeeee!!!!!

[Will]

Oooh Status Quo - good choice Stan!

I didn't buy anything (I seldom actually buy music - most of the stuff I like and have is not modern and I already own it) and don't particularly care about the politics behind it. However I do like the RATM song (I have the album at home as well - kinda like their stuff, if I'm in the right mood for it).

However, I can't stand Xfactor and all this rubbish manfactured tripe with talentless people who only win through popularity rather than skill (I'm not saying I'm right or this is fact, this is just how I feel, an opinion.) I find all these "talent" contest dire...

I kind a like that people had a rise against it, I find it kinda funny. I never pay attention to the charts or who is Christmas #1 as I don't give a fig about it. However, purely through my evil, vitriolic and nasty personal ways I like the fact that the xfactor chap didn't win. None of them really have careers, let's face it, they do it for 15 mins of fame, Simon Cowell makes a huge amount of money (good on him, why not he's a business man, that's all he's interested in. He doesn't really care if they have talent as long as it brings him big bucks).

However, I like how people have got together and changed what was due to be a predictable outcome. Power to the people and all that. I like a bit of anarchy or a bit of ruffling of feathers. Controversy makes me happy - sheep-like behaviour bores me.

Anyway who really cares about the charts anyway?!

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Will

Oooh Status Quo - good choice Stan!

Originally Posted by Will

sheep-like behaviour bores me.

You mean behaviour like half a million of people buying a record they probably wouldn't have bought because Facebook told them to?

[Kitten]

Originally Posted by Will

Anyway who really cares about the charts anyway?!

Originally Posted by Stan_Lite

You mean behaviour like half a million of people buying a record they probably wouldn't have bought because Facebook told them to?

My thoughts exactly. The ironing!

I'm still gutted I couldn't find the Jedward Christmas single

[Will]

Originally Posted by Stan_Lite

You mean behaviour like half a million of people buying a record they probably wouldn't have bought because Facebook told them to?

Exactly. It's so ironic that the people against the xfactor are also just blindly following this other "fad" - it's just so "yawn".

What would have been better is if they started a band and that people actually bought the music because they..... actually LIKED the music?!!! No way!!!!!

[petemc]

*shrugs* Bought a song I like. Donated money to charity. Helped make a point that X-Factor sucks. Not entirely sure what the issue is there.

Oh noes I did something because someone said something and I agreed with it. Hells bells! You know, if someone clever could only harness that idea and put it to good use. You could even use it to sell things. I'd like to call them whizborts. We could have breaks in tv shows where whizborts were shown. I'm going to go call Apple and tell them to make thousands of whizborts. They need all the help they can in selling that iPhone thing they made. I'm sure no-ones heard of it. But then really, who's going to buy that just because it appears to be something they're interested in? *chuh* Whizbort fail.

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by petemc

*shrugs* Bought a song I like. Donated money to charity. Helped make a point that X-Factor sucks. Not entirely sure what the issue is there.

Oh noes I did something because someone said something and I agreed with it. Hells bells! You know, if someone clever could only harness that idea and put it to good use. You could even use it to sell things. I'd like to call them whizborts. We could have breaks in tv shows where whizborts were shown. I'm going to go call Apple and tell them to make thousands of whizborts. They need all the help they can in selling that iPhone thing they made. I'm sure no-ones heard of it. But then really, who's going to buy that just because it appears to be something they're interested in? *chuh* Whizbort fail.

[Will]

Originally Posted by petemc

*shrugs* Bought a song I like. Donated money to charity. Helped make a point that X-Factor sucks. Not entirely sure what the issue is there.

Oh noes I did something because someone said something and I agreed with it. Hells bells! You know, if someone clever could only harness that idea and put it to good use. You could even use it to sell things. I'd like to call them whizborts. We could have breaks in tv shows where whizborts were shown. I'm going to go call Apple and tell them to make thousands of whizborts. They need all the help they can in selling that iPhone thing they made. I'm sure no-ones heard of it. But then really, who's going to buy that just because it appears to be something they're interested in? *chuh* Whizbort fail.

Of course there will be people that bought it because they thought "woah, that's a cool song, I don't care about the campaign and I'm just buying it because I missed it the first time around and I really like it!".

However I reckon the majority of people probably didn't and just did it "because"... I may be wrong of course.

RATM are a good band though

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by petemc

*shrugs* Bought a song I like. Donated money to charity. Helped make a point that X-Factor sucks. Not entirely sure what the issue is there.

Oh noes I did something because someone said something and I agreed with it. Hells bells! You know, if someone clever could only harness that idea and put it to good use. You could even use it to sell things. I'd like to call them whizborts. We could have breaks in tv shows where whizborts were shown. I'm going to go call Apple and tell them to make thousands of whizborts. They need all the help they can in selling that iPhone thing they made. I'm sure no-ones heard of it. But then really, who's going to buy that just because it appears to be something they're interested in? *chuh* Whizbort fail.

Oh no - sarcasm. That'll teach me to voice my opinion

You seem to be missing my point. My beef isn't with people who bought the song because they like it - I'm delighted that people may have found something they like that they may not have known of before. My beef is with the people who are gloating that they "stuck it to the man". They did nothing of the sort, they participated in a campaign to prevent the X Factor winner from having the Christmas number one. They succeeded in their aim but they in no way made any significant difference that will change what people listen to or buy. People will still continue to buy the same crud once this is all forgotten about in a week or two.

[Belmit]

If someone made something called a 'Whizbort', I'd buy ten.

One other good thing came of the campaign - I'd heard of RATM but never listened to their stuff, and having bought the single I'm going to listen to some more now.

[Will]

Come on though Stan, would you rather listen to a pretty boy, slightly camp, with an average voice singing a **** song, or a decent band that you can shake your head to?