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lucifer_sam · 04-09-2010, 08:48 AM

I might sound like an asshole, but:

Meh.

There are few people I associate with promoting music for the wrong reasons, Malcolm McClaren is one of them. Without his commodified version of "punk" music, the Sex Pistols would have been just another fart in the guffstorm of music history. It's the same thing that stores like Hot Topic do today, they take unadulterated artists and fashion an image of complicit consumerism. I mean, I like John Lydon, I love PIL, but damn, the world would have been much better off in the absence of those Malcolm McClarens.

04-09-2010, 08:48 AM	#9 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	I might sound like an asshole, but: Meh. There are few people I associate with promoting music for the wrong reasons, Malcolm McClaren is one of them. Without his commodified version of "punk" music, the Sex Pistols would have been just another fart in the guffstorm of music history. It's the same thing that stores like Hot Topic do today, they take unadulterated artists and fashion an image of complicit consumerism. I mean, I like John Lydon, I love PIL, but damn, the world would have been much better off in the absence of those Malcolm McClarens. __________________ first.am