For the last few days, the aptly described worst-thread-ever has been bouncing along on the XDU listserv. It started out, badly enough, as a conversation about bands "selling out" when their songs are used in commercials. It appears lately (and I can't say for certain, as I've been mostly exercising my right to delete) to have morphed to sniping back and forth about which bands sux0r the most. Hey, how's about we just agree that everything sucks and move on with our lives. And anyway, the idea that any band/artist that already signed a record contract is then "selling out" by licensing their songs for advertising... so 20th century, ne c'est pas? I wouldn't so much mind the wounded bleating o' the hipsters ("but you can't like that band; you're not cool enough to like the bands I like") if I felt there was any recognition of the fact that musicians are, y'know, commercial artists and not frikkin' wandering monks or some sort of pseudo hippydippy bullshit like that.

or maybe I'm just bitter cos Vermont and Bucknell totally blew up my bracket last night...