{"id":1551,"date":"2009-12-20T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T00:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2009-12-21T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:29:49","slug":"rage-against-the-machine-for-christmas-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Rage Against The Machine for Christmas #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m a bit mystified by the 750,000-strong Facebook group encouraging people to buy Rage Against The Machine&#8217;s <em>Killing In The Name<\/em> so it can be the UK Christmas #1 single.\u00a0 The page encourages people to do so to &#8216;prevent another X-Factor artist from being #1 for Christmas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m over-thinking it but I seriously don&#8217;t get the point of this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re sticking it to The Man or something.\u00a0 RATM&#8217;s music is on a label owned by Sony!\u00a0 And the Christmas #1 seems like a bit of a weird place to rebel against the commercialization of music since that&#8217;s what Christmas music has always been.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re missing out on the good old days when Christmas album compilations were a great avenue for discovering new and upcoming independant bands.<\/p>\n<p>It all reminds me of how Mike used to make fun of RATM fans in highschool because they would listen to music denouncing capitalism while buying $40 band shirts.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/music\/article6963334.ece\">Killing In The Name is the UK&#8217;s Christmas #1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m a bit mystified by the 750,000-strong Facebook group encouraging people to buy Rage Against The Machine&#8217;s Killing In The Name so it can be the UK Christmas #1 single.\u00a0 The page encourages people to do so to &#8216;prevent another X-Factor artist from being #1 for Christmas&#8217;. Maybe I&#8217;m over-thinking it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}