For all those cries of sellout, and supporting the man, I posit that you never really “got” Devo at all. Hell, their 2nd album had a song called “Devo Corporate Anthem” fer christsake. They released an collection of Devo MIDI songs. Devo is and has always been all about “selling out”, about exploiting the whatever medium by whatever means, about satirizing our culture by gleefully infecting it at every possible turn.

@Hyman Decent: While I understand your principles, once you start following the money, your only option is to pretty much live in a cave. Do you watch network or cable TV, buy any major label CDs, read books published by the major houses? Because all of it’s owned by rich white dudes, who will do everything thing they can to make sure the game is tilted in their favor. If you’re going to boycott artist for indirectly supporting the man, then you have to apply that same rule to all the media you consume. And honestly, there are few among us who can claim to be that indie.

“…Every time the president speaks it’s a painful example that de-evolution is real.”

Dude, you shoulda looked before you leapt into this. I’ll repost here someone else’s Stereogum comment I posted there:

Michael Dell has donated a tremendous amount of money to George W. Bush’s various campaigns and to the Republican Party. Devo is now dead to me.

Consider the missives from the Korn fans instant karma.

If there’s anything to be learned from mainstream music it’s that repackaging old ideas can sell, and being ahead of one’s time often doesn’t.

But then again, there’s no denying the entertainment value of a bitchfight between a bunch of angsty post-teens stuck in a culture 5 years dead and an old guy with sour grapes.

They hawked Honda scooters about 20 years ago as can be seen in this clip: [youtube.com]

They produced a “Devo 2.0″ version of themselves for Disney where they had kids sing and perform their songs for shopping malls.

Ah. I see what you did there. Pretty clever.

Moreover, you inadvertantly named Korn’s new studio album. Might wanna trademark that pretty soon, skippy.

I would drop $.99 for a Korn version of “Mongoloid” in a heartbeat.

Dell is a supporter of the Republican Party and especially of President George W. Bush. He has given the maximum of US$ 200,000 to Bush’s first campaign, and more than a quarter of a million to the reelection campaign.

@Aquemini:
1. Buying gas isn’t the same as writing a song for a commercial for a gas company.
2. All gas companies are moneygrubbing opportunists but not all the CEO’s of PC manufacturers donated that much to Bush.
3. I’m not knocking Devo for “selling out,” I’m knocking them for doing a deal with (the) De(vi)ll.

Dude, they lent their music to a company founded by a guy who (maybe) gave money to W. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking hate that lying cocksucker, too, but, ‘oooooooooooh Devo are such sellouts’? Sorry, guy.