If you happen to be a bajillionaire with really bad taste in music or a really weird sense of humor, you might consider “buying” that band Rednex (you know, the dudes responsible for that annoying “Cotton-Eyed Joe” song popular at any and all major sporting events.) So what does buying a band entail exactly? Well, according to the eBay post advertising this bizarre commercial endeavor, it means:
The buyer will get 100% of the shares to the Swedish company Rednex AB (equivalent to Ltd.), which owns the trademark, all recordings, all contracts and negotiating rights and is in full power of the artistry. . . The owner of Rednex AB has, as he pleases, the right to record, release, style, tour and manage one of the most successful party bands of our time. The company owns the band, which actually works in a similar way to a company.
Three words: False Fucking Advertising. If we are going to shell out $1.5 million to buy a band, we assume that means we will then own the members of said band. As in when our doorbell rings, they answer it; when our stomach grumbles, they feed it; when our will asserts itself, they bend to it. The only portion of the above stipulations that even remotely suggests the kind of indentured servitude we’d expect is the bit about Rednex’s owner being able to “style” and “manage” the band “as he pleases.” Presumably this means that if you feel like dressing up the three members of this totally middling band in pleather skirts and tea-cosy hats and staple Cabbage Patch Kids to their fore-arms, you can. That sort of placates us, but not really. What the hell, Rednex? Do you really think that someone who has the money to “buy” you will see the financial gain in procuring the rights to your back catalogue? Here’s hoping some sadistic sultan with billions to spare purchases you and makes you into the gimp from Pulp Fiction.
Now, assuming you could actually buy a band in the real, “make me some toast and then write a song for me to break up with my significant other with” sense of the word, who would you buy? And aside from gross, obvious sexual things (c’mon, grow up people), what would you make them do?
[via Idolator]

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