Just heard "If I Fall from Grace With God" used to sell Subarus.
I don't know whether to be happy to hear them or sad they sold out.
Curse my pragmatic punk rock aesthetic!
The Pogues
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The Pogues
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
Re: The Pogues
The sad thing is, they may not control their catalog, so they may not even be getting a benefitBGM wrote:Just heard "If I Fall from Grace With God" used to sell Subarus.
I don't know whether to be happy to hear them or sad they sold out.
Curse my pragmatic punk rock aesthetic!
Re: The Pogues
glg wrote: The sad thing is, they may not control their catalog, so they may not even be getting a benefit
That's true.
Two of my favorite musical idols, Neil Young and Frank Zappa, never have had their music used commercially. Gotta respect that kind of artistic and copyright control.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa