Rage Against the X-Factor

I’m uber pleased that Rage Against the Machine’s Killing In The Name has beaten X-Factor winner Joe McElderry’s single to the top spot this Christmas, but is anyone else slightly amused by the fact that we bought the RATM single on masse in a bid to ‘rage against’ the large music corporations who tell us exactly what music we should and shouldn’t listen to and engineer the pop charts each Christmas, but in doing so we fell into exactly the same trap of having our music buying habits dictated to us and obediently following the crowd? What’s the difference between being manipulated by Simon Cowell to buy the Joe McElderry dross and being manipulated by the mass hordes of protestors on Facebook into buying the RATM single? Same dumb crowd mentality. Oh we are but sheep…

(Still pleased that RATM did it though, woohoo!)