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Buying a Band: Not As Cool As It Sounds

4/2/07, 3:03 pm EST

ebayIf 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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h_e_n_r_y | 4/2/2007, 3:54 pm EST

I’d buy G-Unit and lock them in a dark cell forever… no food, no water, no bitches…

Brian Fantana | 4/2/2007, 6:04 pm EST

have butt secks w/ jessica simpson LOL!!!!!11

Eric | 4/2/2007, 6:26 pm EST

I would buy Nickelback, rent an arena, force them to battle royal to the death (full gladiator style with swords, shields, maces, chains, nets, tridents, and chariots), and just when the winner thinks he’s won his life, release a pack of wolves.

Marc | 4/2/2007, 6:56 pm EST

Id but Oasis and make the bothers drive in a car together across the states for a full fleged 3 month tour

Metal | 4/2/2007, 8:16 pm EST

Buy Gorgoroth and make/tell them to burn down every single pop artists house.

Adam | 4/2/2007, 8:53 pm EST

I’d buy Duran Duran and everytime someone wanted to ring the doorbell they would start singing to the person ringing the “human doorbell”

Fyodor Dostoevsky | 4/2/2007, 9:23 pm EST

I’d buy Macho Man Randy Savage and have him answer my telephone with his raps (and yes the Macho Man did release a CD called “Be a Man” so he is technically a musician).

farrah | 4/2/2007, 10:11 pm EST

buy bob dylan and just look at him.

yahya m | 4/2/2007, 10:52 pm EST

i’d buy cat power, and have her sing me to sleep every night

Charlie | 4/3/2007, 2:19 am EST

I would buy N’SYNC and brainwash them into murdering an innocent civilian family before commiting suicide.

cheesecrop | 4/3/2007, 6:49 am EST

For the ladies only:

I’m for sale.

I can play “Love Me Tender” on a keyboard.

I also sing in the shower.

Anybody???

uhhh | 4/3/2007, 10:46 am EST

id buy the shins and have james mercer sing me to sleep

Jen | 4/3/2007, 10:53 am EST

I’m very partial to what Eric said about Nickelback, only I’m puzzled to why he didn’t include Hinder too…. Maybe because you don’t have enough $$$? Don’t worry, I’ll chip in… It’ll be awesome! We’ll sell tickets, make merch, even have a Chad Kroeger bobblehead! That last one might be a little TOO much though…..

the porksword | 4/3/2007, 12:13 pm EST

i’d buy fall out boy, load them up in a plane, and when we got up there, open the window and say “fall out, boy(s)”…

Elliot | 4/3/2007, 12:16 pm EST

I’d buy the white stripes.
They would play at barbeques at my house, and I’d have Jack’s rolodex, which has to have Bob Dylan’s home phone.

Also, I’d get jack to do some uphostering. Meg would have no other requirements, except play drums.

Mandela | 4/3/2007, 12:57 pm EST

Franz Ferdiand, I don’t care if they amount to nothing more than a single machine, I’d just like them to be the houseband at…my house..

david | 4/3/2007, 2:01 pm EST

i’d buy fall out boy, load them up in a plane, and when we got up there, open the window and say “fall out, boy(s)”…

david | 4/3/2007, 2:05 pm EST

WOW,UM, i`d buy DJ dangermouse and force him to mix a CD of any two artists I chose! I womnder what paris hilton sounds like over bob marlins music? anyone?

david | 4/3/2007, 2:09 pm EST

I`d get plus 44,and torture them by making them add the rest of their lives~! no no,I`d make 30 seconds to mars build me a rocket to mars!in thirty seconds. wait,id buy the sex pistols. just for the fun of it. make them play dA\ay and night.wait,id get the arctic monkeys and the gorillaz and make them crossbreed x-D

Lisa | 4/3/2007, 4:37 pm EST

I’d buy Dante Cimadamore. He’s such a sexpot.

Erica | 4/3/2007, 4:41 pm EST

mmm, D-tizzle in my mizzle

david | 4/3/2007, 5:20 pm EST

id get the arctic monkeys and the gorillaz and make them crossbreed x-D

AHA | 4/3/2007, 5:50 pm EST

Nobody understands selling out like RS

k-bones(a7xrox) | 4/4/2007, 12:25 am EST

yah id love 2 kill fall out boy too. but id put a camra where i throw them out so i could watch there deaths over and over agin

david | 4/4/2007, 12:03 pm EST

com on fall out boy arnt that bad. I like their music. I`d really like to kill nickleback!and hinder!and daughtry!I would buy Nickelback, rent an arena, force them to battle royal to the death (full gladiator style with swords, shields, maces, chains, nets, tridents, and chariots), and just when the winner thinks he’s won his life, release a pack of wolves.It’ll be awesome! We’ll sell tickets, make merch, even have a Chad Kroeger bobblehead! That last one might be a little TOO much though…..

Rod | 4/4/2007, 9:44 pm EST

Oh, please. Black Eyed Peas are the most “For Sale” band in the history of the universe. Do they even write songs, or just commercial jingles?

Betta Recognize | 4/4/2007, 10:45 pm EST

American Pop Culture has fucken sold out. Are you kidding me? Listen to the crap that is played on the radio (Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Beyonce). American Idol? I mean, come on. The fucking american public has been buying the souls of rock n roll for ages. Suck ‘em up and leave them to rot. Half the shit (Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte) gets sucked up by corporate america and are puppets. Makes me ill. Go whip me up some Korn on a stick, please.

k-bones(a7xrox) | 4/5/2007, 1:06 am EST

ok i hate nickleback too soooo much
i cant even discribe…wait yes i can put them in a arena but tie there arms and legs to a monster truck and watch them get torn limb by limb and when there crying for help send in the wolves!!(im sick arnt i?)

jared | 4/5/2007, 1:35 am EST

i agree with henry.

and

id have hinder eat their own dicks.

T I M | 4/7/2007, 12:35 pm EST

I’d get the Vantucky Champs. They are the best undiscovered band in the United States. Check them out on MYSpace. They are a pop/rock sensation.

T I M | 4/7/2007, 12:38 pm EST

I would buy the Vantucky Champs

Megan | 4/7/2007, 12:52 pm EST

I would buy the Chili Peppers… and make Flea give me bass lessons and John Frusciante have my children.

Megan | 4/7/2007, 12:53 pm EST

um other way around, I’d have HIS children… he can’t really have mine.

david | 4/9/2007, 3:49 pm EST

ha ha lol :-D

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George | 11/5/2007, 3:56 pm EST

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