SoundFreak » Rage Against the Machine http://www.soundfreak.com Sounding off about music, media and current affairs Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:32:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 X Factor vs RATM…. the battle continues! http://www.soundfreak.com/2009/12/14/x-factor-vs-ratm-the-battle-continues/ http://www.soundfreak.com/2009/12/14/x-factor-vs-ratm-the-battle-continues/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:21:25 +0000 Sissy Manolo http://www.soundfreak.com/?p=228 Current chart information shows the two tracks to be neck and neck at the moment, so keep buying the Rage Against the Machine single! Some people have pointed out that both tracks are through Sony BMG, but that isn’t the point. The point is to show that we can think for ourselves, and will not be dictated to or act like sheep. Also, bear in mind that X factor winners will be on a terrible royalty rate, and that they are a completely manufactured act. Rage Against the Machine paid their dues and wrote all their own songs. So don’t forget to buy the track!

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support the rage factor!

At last! join the campaign to stop the X Factor xmas number one! I found this through the Kerrang! page on Myspace: http://ragefactor.co.uk/

It’s a campaign to get everyone to buy Rage Against the Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ in order to prevent the x factor from manipulating our minds and wallets into parting with our hard earned cash for the usual xmas dross they produce.

Kerrang have the following to say about it:

X Factor mogul Simon Cowell has blasted the campaign to make Rage Against The Machine the Christmas Number One calling it “stupid.”

A few weeks ago Rage fan Jon Morter set up a FaceBook group to encourage fans to buy the Rage Against The Machine classic Killing In The Name – made famous by it’s Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me refrain – digitally through iTunes or We7 between Sunday, December 13 and Saturday December 19 to try and prevent the winner of this year’s X Factor from going to Number One at Christmas. The group currently has over 550,000 members.

“If there’s a campaign, and I think the campaign’s aimed directly at me, it’s stupid,” said Cowell at press conference in London this afternoon (Thursday, December 10).

“Me having a Number One record at Christmas is not going to change my life particularly,” he added. “It does however change these guys’ lives and we put this opportunity there so that the winner of The X Factor gets the chance of having a big hit record. I think it’s quite a cynical campaign geared at me which is actually going to spoil the party for [the three X Factor finalists]. I also think it’s incredibly dismissive of the people who watch and enjoy the show to treat our audiences as if they’re stupid and I don’t like that.”

“The X-Factor has bagged the last four Christmas Number Ones and I think it’s killing one of our country’s great traditions,” Jon Morter told Kerrang!. “I’m totally fed up with this and during a chance viewing of the show, I snapped. I made a Facebook group to see if there were any others who agreed with me.”

“The response has been incredible,” he added. “Killing In The Name is the perfect song. How good would it be to have Rage Against The Machine at the top of the charts instead of a Simon Cowell act?”

We wholeheartedly agree Jon. The time to act is now, people! Join the revolution at www.ragefactor.co.uk.

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