Rainard Jalen

Yah, cos that's what I said isn't it ~~111!!!!

I didn't say having a fanbase is commercial. I pointed out that Tool (and bands with a similar message) are catering to a large sub-culture that empathize with those particular, generally hackneyed and cliched ideas. It is known to be a lucrative market by major labels, book publishers, film studios, and what have you. Not only that, but it's these corporations themselves that cultivate the whole conspiracy theory/mind-control (and similar ideas) market; it's a MAJOR money spinner! And Tool fit in quite nicely on the commercial agenda pertaining to that particular market. Contrary to what many fans would otherwise like to believe, they're about as much another brick in the wall as anything else.