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Thread #87112   Message #1624655
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
10-Dec-05 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: the ultimate sell-out? or what?
Subject: RE: the ultimate sell-out? or what?
Like the guy above says (one of the few times I can agree with him), what's wrong with this ?

Anybody who believes that professional performers write and sing songs for any other reason than making money lives in cloud cuckoo land. Singing and playing for pleasure is one thing but when it's your source of income it ain't that easy and always that pleasurable.

It's an advert for a damn car, and it's earning money for Guthrie's estate. Do none of us drive cars? Do we have to buy one because we know and like the song that is being used to promote it?

Sell out nothing, it's just a damn shame that Woody isn't around to reap the benefits.

Hoot