Look, I hate MTV as much as the next gal and I fucking LOVE Team Robespierre but I’m surprised they’re so surprised they got fucked over by the world’s largest broadcaster. The band lost $1,000 to the Viacom bureaucracy? What did they think was going to happen? Didn’t MTV just lay off like, 1,000 people? It’s a seat-of-their-pants bureaucracy where the head has no idea what the tail is doing. Of course you’re going to lose your shirt. Especially when you’re broke.
Great video though…
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sorry but this band is annoying
04.09.09 at 11:09 am
Most bands are so into their little world they have no idea how the real world works. MTV doesn’t give a shit about your thousand bucks. Obviously.
04.09.09 at 11:09 am
hahahah how ironic that jason hogg (bassist) was working for mtv not even a year ago
04.09.09 at 11:19 am
Way to stand up for something, tough guys. This is what happens when you sell out for a few minutes on MTV2. They should have told them to go fuck themselves, the finger and the cunny girl are staying, we’d rather die than spend money to conform to your bogus censorship needs, if you don’t like it don’t air it, etc. etc. At the very least, they should have told them to make the edits themselves. Instead, as soon as they’re ordered to compromise their creative process, not only do they start steppin’ and fetchin,’ they also start spending money. That’s lame. I actually now have some respect for MTV for giving these guys the shaft. I would have treated them like shit too.
04.09.09 at 11:34 am
what Vane$$a said, for realsy, pussies.
04.09.09 at 11:41 am
This proves conclusively that this band is nothing more than a bunch of cunts.
The article also makes me respect MTV more.
04.09.09 at 11:58 am
That’s cuz MTV is a bunch of jews, kind of like this band.
04.09.09 at 12:12 pm
how could you “love” this band?? all those people in the video seem like they’re trying to have a good time and “party down” b/c it’s what they think they are suppossed to do. ny must suck balls
04.09.09 at 12:25 pm
Welcome to Corporate America. You should come by my office and try to get something good done. After fifteen meetings and multiple thumbs stuck up multiple asses, the worst committee decision possible will inevitably be made. The video is cool in a low budget way (although we must soon be reaching the end of cheap, retro-ish effects = edgy and mind-blowing), but my opinion doesn’t matter. I’m not a taste-maker, and at 32 a bit too old to be determining what’s “kewl”
Fact is, you should expect to be completely fucked around by a a company like Viacom. Did you think they would be fair, or considerate? Sort of naive, you guys look old enough to know better. I would have aired it, better than most of the garbage that “makes” it. Best of luck in the future.
04.09.09 at 12:26 pm
Bureaucracy this, whine whine whine. Shut up. BTW, you guys hype the Newmore Switchblades more than North Korea hypes Kim Jong-Il. I can’t decide which is more shitty, though.
04.09.09 at 12:38 pm
@huh- so right on it hurts me in my pants.
these assholes don’t even run the risk of gettin’ mugged/capped/raped there anymore, and all they can think to do is run around in a kitten bedsheet and pretend to like bad ideas.
04.09.09 at 12:46 pm
someone has got some sand in their pussies
04.09.09 at 1:14 pm
I just wanna apologize to everyone for allowing this band to exist. Really – I’m sorry. I know I dropped the ball on this one.
04.09.09 at 1:55 pm
Who watches MTV for the music videos? Do they even show videos anymore?
04.09.09 at 2:09 pm
Do the people commenting on this post realize how big their assholes are? “I’m so fucking punk that I hate on cool bands who talk about getting fucked over by the record industry” and “I’m such a badass that my (non-existent band) would never sell out and care about getting on MTV” Sure… Pull your heads and your cocks out of your asses and chill out.
04.09.09 at 3:06 pm
@ Salvation Is a Pop Song
yeah we’re huge assholes. Like almost as big a group of assholes as a band who cry all over the internet about the fact they had to invest a 1,000 dollars into making a music video that no one wants to broadcast.
Who the fuck cares? You call that getting ‘fucked over’? What a group of pussies. They come off sounding like a bunch of sheltered bitches who are upset the ‘big bad company’ ‘ripped them off’ a thousand bucks. God forbid any of you faggots ever really get ripped off and have something legitimate to gripe over.
As far as I’m concerned this is beyond par for the course considering who they were dealing with. You want justice and fair treatment? Go play your shitty music to a bunch of 100 lb. vegans at a “free palestine” benefit concert at some local park. Promise they won’t rip you off.
@ God
I do not accept your apology.
04.09.09 at 4:35 pm
Holy crap jean-luc picard is a hero.
04.09.09 at 5:34 pm
hahahaha, said it before, and I’ll say it again.
100% hype.. being on mtv2 was their choice. it’s like that band the bronx getting signed at their first show, they know exactly what they’re doing and they are hoping that the scheme works.. well the world is different now, yadda ya, the economy, my nutsack, and all that shit…
who wouldn’t sell out given the opportunity, shit, why the fuck not.. but calling this a band, I can’t get into that.. they are a business, nothing more, nothing less, go buy their shit.
04.09.09 at 6:22 pm
Uh, why is this site bothering to say how much it hates MTV when about a month ago Gavin posted himself on Carson Daily explaining street boners? That’s like a horse fly complaining about how awful piles of shit are. If you are going to put your friends on the web so that they can become more popular and get pillow cases of cash than great but don’t assume the readers have agreed to live in your fantasy world where you’re the underdog. I’m pretty sure that turning corporate culture vultures on to things like this make you big brother’s Igor.
04.09.09 at 6:29 pm
I once spent over $1500 on very tasteful nude photos of myself that my neighbors didn’t think were appropriate to hand out to kids on halloween. fuck them.
04.09.09 at 6:31 pm
Wow. So what you’re saying is that people in the music industry, namely MTV, can be kinda mean and shady. What a revelation. I’m gonna need to meditate on this chunk of news and get back to you later. To say the least, my initial reaction to this can be described as nothing less than completely BLOWN AWAY.
04.09.09 at 6:45 pm
Stupid. I love team robespierre.
04.09.09 at 6:52 pm
do not want
04.09.09 at 11:41 pm
i hate you fucking cunts that are too cool for music. stop being bitches and just enjoy. at least team robespierre et al. are fucking having fun.
04.10.09 at 5:33 am
also:
jean-luc picard is the coolest motherfucker from the 24th century ever. ncc-1701 d nigga.
04.10.09 at 5:36 am
“i hate you fucking cunts that are too cool for music. stop being bitches and just enjoy. at least team robespierre et al. are fucking having fun.”
My contempt arises from the clear fact that they’re not having fun, that they’re getting in the way of my fun by bitching about getting fucked over by the world. Sorry, but that’s boring to me, and if my boredom in the face of their crying makes me “too cool for music, then so be it. I could give a fuck about these jive ass mofos becoming band #39587423985793457398 to get fucked over by the music industry. It’s a non-story. 99.999999999999% of the people out there roll out of bed in the morning and start getting fucked over by the world. Why should I give a shit about these children and their 1K? Their whining is absurdly naive and comedic. Add to that the submissive yes sir/no sir desperate doggy face they put on for MTV, and we have ourselves a full-blown hipster scum farce. In other words, I am having fun…at their expense.
04.10.09 at 8:43 am
there comes a time in every “up and coming” band when they find out they get a raw deal out of this shit. Steve Albini penned it so well when it came to these kinds of situations.
personally i don’t care for people with their 1980’s/1990’s views about “the man” and “selling out” because although i dislike ruthless corporations, bands losing a grand is not high on my list of reasons why.
04.10.09 at 9:47 am
Geez. Maybe that one guy that occasionally writes here IS the “world’s bravest man.” Fucking pussies the lot of you.
04.10.09 at 10:40 am
P.S. To the historically handicapped above, I don’t know if it’s possible to find a cultural ethic more in tune with the 80s and 90s (or all of American history) than “selling out.” Where the fuck have you been?
04.10.09 at 10:43 am
amen vane$$a.
04.10.09 at 11:22 am