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Old 04-09-2010, 09:39 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam View Post
There are few people I associate with promoting music for the wrong reasons, Malcolm McClaren is one of them. Without his commodified version of "punk" music, the Sex Pistols would have been just another fart in the guffstorm of music history. It's the same thing that stores like Hot Topic do today, they take unadulterated artists and fashion an image of complicit consumerism.
Your statement is actually a testament to Malky. He was obviously very integral to hype surrounding the Pistols, but your statement seems to suggest that he created the phenomenon of what many people regard as the start of punk music. As far a promoting music, what other reasons are there other than entertainment, and the dream of making lots of $$$.
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