Comments on: OKGO’s New Video – This Too Shall Pass http://www.mikemccready.com/2010/03/03/okgos-new-video-this-too-shall-pass/ giving it my best shot Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:43:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Charlie http://www.mikemccready.com/2010/03/03/okgos-new-video-this-too-shall-pass/comment-page-1/#comment-12335 Charlie Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:16:19 +0000 http://www.mikemccready.com/?p=423#comment-12335 <p>I could spend hours watching all the Million Ways entries on YouTube. In fact I have. I do think you were right though, their music ain't enough to get them in the charts. I don't know what their sales are actually like. I don't think the music's much cop. But I salute their inventiveness and creativity.</p> <p>OK Go are not the first sub-par band to be signed to major - indeed, the tsunami of mediocrity that has been let loose on a less and less credulous public since the late 80s is by far the biggest cause of the destruction of the recorded music industry, not "piracy".</p> <p>But yes, hats off to great videos and dance contests.</p> I could spend hours watching all the Million Ways entries on YouTube. In fact I have. I do think you were right though, their music ain’t enough to get them in the charts. I don’t know what their sales are actually like. I don’t think the music’s much cop. But I salute their inventiveness and creativity.

OK Go are not the first sub-par band to be signed to major – indeed, the tsunami of mediocrity that has been let loose on a less and less credulous public since the late 80s is by far the biggest cause of the destruction of the recorded music industry, not “piracy”.

But yes, hats off to great videos and dance contests.

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