Unfortunately I don't work for the CIA so this is impossible but I see what you mean. I wonder if any rock star and history that professed to stand up for the enslaved masses actually could stand to really part from their beloved wealth to make the world a better place? Pink Floyd are the worst example of this.
i know for a while the radio people kept bragging about how they were playing "brand new music from rage" yet every time they said it they would play the same song from one of their old albums...
I'm not saying that he's a bad person. I'm saying that he's a capitalist. You cannot deny this. I think that RAGE got some great exposure to the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and a few other things. I still think that he's a capitalist though. I'm not saying that it's wrong to be a capitalist. I'd be one hell of a capitalist if I was at his position. Pink Floyd... ehh... capitalistic...and fucking loving it! I don't really know how Pink Floyd made the world a better place in the practical sense other than some charity things.
Roger Waters in particular has made global injustice, war and corporate greed major themes in a lot of his music but he is loaded as hell. I remember a particular quote in a book a read about pink floyd that reads alond the lines of "Yeah, you feel guilty about having all this money and you wonder if you should give a lot of it to charity, but you just don't end up getting round to it"...and that was it. I mean what the fuck? I just don't see the use in having so much when others go without all the time.
Yeah, but tell me one group of Pink Floyd's stature isn't the same way. Of course they have tons of money. At least Waters says what he believes. I have to respect that.
I disagree, he believes in having a lot of money and being a successful rock star. If he came straight out and said that I would respect him far more.
Yeah, Bono is a completely hypocritical cock. I have a soft spot for roger especially because of albums like Amused to Death
I have the one from Tshirt Hell that says "Mary was only a virgin if you don't count anal". Damn, Irish Catholics love to fight...
i have one that says, "why is it called tourist season if you cant shoot them", it tends to offend tourists..
In my early teens I bought a shirt of a festival i went to which said "more brutal than your mother's vagina". My mom didn't wanna wash it..
i like wearing shirts wildly inappropriate for a mom. it makes the kids squirm. i don't really have any anymore. i need to get some. stuff that's too "hip" for me.
Political murder can be justified and can even be right sometimes... However, wearing the face of someone who thought imprisoning homosexuals was a good idea isn't very necessary...