Goddamn you Townsend, it's Rock and Roll,

[Itchinjim]

not a fucking car commercial.

[ClassWarrior]

1. I admire the surviving Doors for not selling "Break On Through"...

...to Cadillac. The company had to go with an ill-fitting Led Zeppelin song instead.

NGU.

[LynneSin]

3. Yeah, but they made a shitload of money off that commericial

:shrug:

[ClassWarrior]

9. That's the proverbial trade-off: money or your soul...

:shrug:

NGU.

[Poiuyt]

2. ?

:shrug:

[tularetom]

4. What now?

Couldn't be any worse than that godawful Happy Jack Hummer ad they had on a couple years ago.

[Colobo]

5. "...it's only teenage wasteland..."

Even though my thing is Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music, I love "Baba O'Reilly".

[BuyingThyme]

6. I don't understand people who don't want to hear great music

in commercials.

[TomInTib]

8. Bingo! and see #7

It's only Rock and Roll....


But I like it!

[BuyingThyme]

10. Wasn't music invented to sell t-shirts at $40 a pop?

Or is it the beer, at $6.50 per sixteen ouncer?

[TomInTib]

7. It's not just Rock and Roll

survival plays a part, as well.

Your songs are your product....

If you can sell them...

Sell them, if you must.

That shit is not your property...

But I certainly understand your feelings.

[walldude]

11. Funny thing about that.. I read an interview with Townsend recently

where he said he reunited the Who in the 90's because John Entwistle really needed the money. then he went and blew it all on coke and died. I agree though, sell the tunes if you need the money, especially 25 and 30 year old songs. After 25 years, please get rich off of it if you need to.

[jobycom]

12. No idea what you're talking about, but Townsend has earned an easy paycheck.

I'd rather a rock artist get a whopping sum of cash for a commercial than some idiot marketing major whose done nothing but polute the airwaves with crappy jingles his whole career.

[juno jones]

13. At least

those guys still own their songs....a lot of the old catalog is owned by Michael Jackson...

[John Q. Citizen]

14. I'm not singing for Pepsi, I'm not singing for Coke, Won't sing for nobody,

Who makes me look like a joke;

This notes for you!

[onenote]

15. if you really cared, maybe you'd learn to spell his name

Its Townshend. And why shouldn't he make money off of his work?