Vicious circle.
However, even if they had sampled a good song, the good song would then be shit by association with the shit band.
The only answer is for the shit band to stop making music.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:37, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

But then the ringtone industry would collapse overnight

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:38, Reply)

GOOD.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)

Amen to that

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)

I've recorded all my ringtones off my computer.
Thus my text tone is "MONOCLE SMILE"
My ringtone is Keep Hope Alive by the Crystal Method and my alarm is Manic Depression by Emilie Autumn.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:45, Reply)

My phone's on silent almost always
But when needed it's an excerpt from NIN - Just like you imagined.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:48, Reply)

I expected nothing less.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)

Likewise with the Emilie Autumn.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)

Mine is Carry on my Wayward Son
it compelled some unknown people to ask me to sit down and have a drink with them last night
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:51, Reply)

I like this.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:58, Reply)

'shit band sample great song and thus ruin it' is a worst-case scenario.
Or 'bent TV ad uses great song so you can't play it out ever again' which I have had with Don Farden's 'I'm Alive'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)

And don't you think that 'Lust for Life' has lost some sparkle...
...since it was used to flog cruises?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:45, Reply)

'Trainspotting' had already consigned it to the 'avoid' bin for me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:48, Reply)

True story.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:45, Reply)