talking the talk

bitsy · Sea Monkey Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

Anyone here heard of GrimSkunk (the band) or Indica (their label)? They’re this awesome hard rock/punk band from Montreal, Canada that have been around since the ‘80s and they started Indica in ’97 for themselves and to sign other up and coming groups.

they just released a new album called Fires Under the Road, first single "America Sucks" and I recently read that they're playing in Toronto at lee's palace on Dec. 16th, $13, starts at 10pm.

Awesome. I’m definitely going and if you’re in the city you should check em out.

Anyway, it got me thinking. what does commitment to artistic freedom really mean? lots of bands claim to have it but are signed to huge, very hands-on labels. especially with rock/punk music, it seems pretty contrary to sing about f**king the system while collecting checks and taking direction from rich record execs whose main focus is the bottom line.

lawn_gnomes_r_evil502 · Lion Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 931 Location: Indiana

1.) Canada sucks.

2.) Artistic freedom means that they are liable to be sucessful and make millions of dollars, if they do, god for them. Can you actually say you'd deny becoming a rockstar and get trillions of fans. in this "punk" scene, bands that make alot of money suck and are sellouts( they must be bad, they are making a million bucks a day, it's obvious.) where as unsigned bands or uknown ones are awesome( just beacuase you can't understand their lyrics dosen't make them deep or poetic)

if you are rich, good for you!

and the "system"?
What system?

they dont **** us over, they are the backbone of american economy, we need the upper 1% just to keep castes in order. if there werent billionaires, we wouldn't have the schools and the libraries we have, if you think that they do damage to our society, think that out again, do you want communisim? we always need a caste system, we always need a gap between the rich and the poor.

that's artistic freedom buddy.

bitsy · Sea Monkey Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

i completely disagree with just about everything you wrote. you start off with 1. canada sucks, which is such an ignorantly blanket statement that there is no point in me wasting my time responding to your rediculous argument point by point. you come across as a total know it all who knows very little.