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WHO THE FUCK PUT "CALIFORNIA SUN" ON A PLAYSTATION GAME COMMERCIAL.

WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF RAMONES LICENSING IS GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER TO ME!! RARRRR!!

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[ex_haydn637]

So they're in commercials? BFD. There are more important things to get disgusted by. It's not like the Ramones stood for starving for yr art. The Ramones were always on a major label, because there wasn't the robust indie distribution system inthe late 70's that there is today. I remember in the mid-late 80's, Joey was even on one of those Oprah style talk shows with his mother.
Let the surviving ramones have this. Think of it as a pension plan for punk rockers.
It's just too bad that joey is dead and won't see a dime.

Now, what about stereolab selling VW bugs?

And Moby sells just about everything. But his fans don't give a toss. His tunes border on background muzak anyway. One of his tracks was even the them-song for the regrettable kirstie alley sit com "Veronica's closet."

And by the way: A telecom company several years ago used Blondie's "Call Me" in their ads. I think it was AT&T or Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). In the late eighties, early 90's.

The Carpenters lifted their hit "We've only just begun" from a regional bank commercial in Sothern Cal. It goes both ways.

Lest we forget that groundbreaking Nike ad featuring the beatle's revolution.

The Washington Redskins play Fugazi's "Waiting Room" over their stadium's PA System during time outs. I Crap You Negative on that one.

The Clash selling jaguars. That was a cute one. The Clash. Selling Jaguars!

The worst offender has to be the Minutemen song they used to sell Volvos a year or two ago. The Minutemen?! SELLING CARS?! D. Boone must be rolling over in his quasi-marxist grave! I doubt watt had anything to do with it. It was probably that bastard Ginn, since he owns the back catalogs of the best punk bands from the eighties.

Everybody wants to get over. Licensing music for commercial content is a sleazy, horrible business. There are rates varying on usage, duration and scope. Advertisers will grab a 10-second sample from a sone and loop it to fit their needs so they can avoid paying full licensing rights. I think the ceiling is 30 seconds. If they use 30 or more seconds of a song in anything, they pay full licensing rights. Under that it's negotiable. The advertisers work it to pay as little licensing money to the artists as possible. To save money for their multinational conglomerate clients. I've seen it happen. It's ugly, but the license holders of the songs are on board. Everybody wants to get over. Everybody wants to make a buck. Don't ever overestimate people.