I'm sure you must absolutely hate The Imagined Village for that reason.

Why is it with The Imagined Village that it's always held up as the sort of album WAV should hate because of his views? I hate it because it's as shite a piece of bland corporate marketing as you're ever likely to come across with about as much musical merit as Celtic Woman. I'm not saying I'm against such fusions per se, just when it results in such gutless diluted middle-class fol-de-rol then I'd real rather listen to the real thing - be it hard-core hip-hop, field-recorded folk, or whatever, just as long as it kicks some ass. All The Imagined Village does is show up folk as the clueless cultural backwater it most surely is. Give me John Barleycorn Reborn any day, and I'm sure WAV would love that!