Jason Harris
2008-05-23 10:51:02
I don’t know why everyone is making a big fuss about the Decemberists. They are just a semi-popular Portland based indie band that tour playing mid-sized venues and the communist bit is typical pop culture schtick. You could have had a juggling act up there and the same number of people would have attened.
Rage Against the Machine, a band much more popular than the Decemberists, had hordes of fans unwittingly wearing communist symbols on their band clothing. They didn’t have luck coverting American kids into commies and I seriously doubt the Decemberist will fare any better.
It’s all about turning rebellion into money and all the talk about it is just raising their profile. Move on and let the band fall back off into indie-rock obscurity.
