The Silversun Pickups have asked Mitt Romney's campaign to stop using their song "Panic Switch" at events. The band has issued a cease-and-desist order and released a statement Wednesday, roundly denouncing Romney and his campaign.
"We don't like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don't like the Romney campaign," frontman Brian Aubert wrote. "We're nice, approachable people. We won't bite. Unless you're Mitt Romney!"
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They think they have a right to everything for free. Bastids.
2 comments:
Too bad. "Panic Switch" is the perfect song title for that whiny SOB's campaign.
Actually, if you read the Romney campaign's response, they *did* pay their royalties to ASCAP (a performing rights organization that Silversun Pickups is a member of), a portion of which goes to the Pickups. So the Romney campaign had a legal license to use any ASCAP member's music with or without said member's explicit permission. If the SilverSun Pickups want to prohibit people from using their music, they have to give up their ASCAP revenue stream, otherwise ASCAP just shrugs and says "you signed your performance rights over to us, bukko, and we license them any way we wish." Just another way that the music business fucks over musicians...
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