The Smashing Pumpkins- It's Never Too late To Sell out

Some people thought the Pumpkins sold out in 93', when they signed to a major and created a stronghold on mainstream rock radio that would last for the remainder of the decade. Others thought they sold out last year, when their new song was featured in a car commercial. But in my opinion, the true moment when the Smashing Pumpkins sold out happened this morning.

I took a glance at the daily Itunes charts. I see the Jonas Brothers, Myley Cirus, Nickelcrap, and all the other force-fed mainstream crap the corporations push at us. And then what do i see, the fucking Smashing Pumpkins! "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning", a forgotten B-side which was included in a trailer for "The Watchmen", which only appeared before "The Dark Knight", which within the past week, has been seen by EVERY SINGLE FUCKING HUMAN BEING ON EARTH and their mother. So of course, there has been a lot of curiosity about that song.

But I DO NOT WANT that. I do not want the same kids who listen to the Jonas Brothers and American Idol and other such unmentionables to suddenly be transfixed by "this cool new band called the Smashing Pumpkins." Kids these days who buy all this consumer crap and who bought all these Ipods are too young and stupid to appreciate a band like the Pumpkins. And I am not talking about Emperor Corgan and the Pumpkin Kingdom, or whatever the fuck the band is called today.

I am talking about the original Smashing Pumpkins we grew up loving. I mean, look what happened to Journey when their song was used in a major television show. Now, every single 17-year old from Bumblefuck, New Jersey knows all the words to "Don't Stop Believing" And I HATE IT! Because kids these days, they just don't know how to appreciate this stuff. They view it as throwaway crap they just buy for 99 cents online, download onto their Ipods and learn all the words to, only to forget them the next week and buy whatever schlub MTV tells them is cool. I do not want such a body of work as the Pumpkins' catalog getting this kind of treatment. I am fucking serious. This was my generation's band, and they don't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath of forcefed crap like the Jonas Brothers.