Clear Channel Killed Lollapolooza cause of the anti-bush theme!

[Melodybe]

There is an article around here with Perry Farell where he says just that.

I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! It had nothing to do with poor ticket sales! It had everything to do with Clear Channel wanting to stiffel free speech and free expression!

FUCK YOU CLEAR CHANNEL! I WAS GOING TO SEE SONIC YOUTH AND THE PIXIES!!!!

Sorry I just had to rant, something I suspected months ago was just confirmed and thanks to Clear Channel I didn't get to see 2 of my all time favorite bands.

FUCK CLEAR CHANNEL!

Here is a link to the DU discussion:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3585158

[Kazak]

1. Typical...

:eyes:

[Melodybe]

2. You have no idea how pissed I am, I fucking knew it!!!

God Damn Nazis can't deal with dissent and pulled the plug and I didn't get to see the Pixies!

The Pixies don't just play any where you know, they usually don't hang in Memphis or anywhere remotely close to where we live. Atlanta was as close as we could get and the fucking Bush cock sucking mother fuckers piece of shit assholes over at Clear Channel had to strong arm their acts to keep them from speaking out against Bush.

Son of a Bitch assholes

FUCK CLEAR CHANNEL!!!! I knew it!

Poor ticket sales my ass. Every phone line was busy even the internet was experiencing an overload of people trying to buy tickets.

Damn I'm so mad!

[Kazak]

6. Heh. Many many moons ago...

I once paid $60 a pop for two tickets, just to see the Pixies OPEN for U2. :crazy:

My condolences...

[Mistress Quickly]

3. Can't someone else

do the tour? I guess by that I mean sponser.

[Melodybe]

4. Clear Channel owns all the venues too, so unless they can get a permit

to have the concert in some field somewhere they are SOL.

Fuck Clear Channel!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Clear Channel "spinning off" concert division

Not being a high finance type myself I'm not sure what "spin off" means. Sell it?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2005-04-29-clear-channel_x.htm

[Melodybe]

7. Kick for anyone who had already bought tickets and reserved a hotel room

like we had done.

Man, I am so sick of this corporate censor ship just flying by with not nearly a word. Clear Channel owns damn near every radio station in the country and a majority of the large venues; their "favor" for Bushco should be illegal but not in the USSA. To any lurking repubs where is this liberal media? Where the fuck is it!?!

God forbid those hippie music lovers get together and see how big their numbers are. Wouldn't want another Woodstock, all that love and happiness just might remind people how fucking sorry this country is getting.

Perry Farell should fucking sue Clear Channel for corporate censorship.

[Pushed To The Left]

9. No group or person should have this much power

over anybody else! It's one thing for one independent company to not want to be involved with a concert. It's a different story altogether when a company has this type of monopoly power and uses it to keep anything they don't like from being seen or heard. This type of corporate censorship is just as wrong as government censorship. I'd like to see the courts and/or politicians put a stop to this practice!

[underseasurveyor]

8. Oh no, my boy is going to be P-I-S-S-E-D

He was majorly looking forward to it.
:grr::banghead::grr:

[Melodybe]

10. No I think that they are still on for this year

I'm bitching about last summer.