Many moons ago my old band played a show with these guys called "Against Me!". You might have heard of them.
I remember the rhetoric "we aren't here for the money" etc... And if any band on this planet could get just fucking huge, and they refused to let it happen, it would be them.
But, they just signed to Fat Wreckchords. There are three places you go in punk rock when it's time to make some cash. Epitaph, Fat, or Vagrant. If you want a tour bus, you go there. If you want your record in Best Buys across America, you go there.
It hurts so much to see people you look up to do things like this. I don't know of any possible way I could hear them justify why they chose to do this. No Idea treated them more than fair.
Another one bites the dust.
I remember the rhetoric "we aren't here for the money" etc... And if any band on this planet could get just fucking huge, and they refused to let it happen, it would be them.
But, they just signed to Fat Wreckchords. There are three places you go in punk rock when it's time to make some cash. Epitaph, Fat, or Vagrant. If you want a tour bus, you go there. If you want your record in Best Buys across America, you go there.
It hurts so much to see people you look up to do things like this. I don't know of any possible way I could hear them justify why they chose to do this. No Idea treated them more than fair.
Another one bites the dust.