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Greyhound's Attempt To Get "Edgy" Backfires Worse Than One Of Its Rickety Old Buses

Yesterday a member of the band WZT Hearts discovered that his group was featured in an XLR8R ad for Greyhound—the ad was in the form of four tear-out postcards (reprinted above) that had shots from concerts by WZT Hearts, Dan Deacon, Ruins, and Team Robespierre on the front, and little blurbs about the bands, as well as the bus company's logo, on the back. Needless to say, the artists were not pleased to find out that their likenesses were being used in this ad campaign unbeknownst to them (especially since implied endorsements like this seem to be more and more common these days), and Deacon unleashed this anti-Greyhound salvo via MySpace's handy bulletin feature: More »