
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:45, archived)

What do you know of being poor? This isn't derogatory, or an insult. I really want to know.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:46, archived)

or asking RATM as some sort of open question? Because my tale of poverty is so fucking harrowing it would make you weep, you petty little child.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:53, archived)

I was asking you, you insulent prick. It's not a rude question. It's a question. Have you ever been poor? I don't fucking know you, so I don't know.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:57, archived)

and yet it's neither relative nor crucial to this debate. That's like arguing white people can't support black rights movements, or the Western sympathy for Tibet is a joke because we've never been oppressed. Musicians making apt art that is able to speak directly to someone's emotions and justly represent the plight or pain of an individual or group is no less diminished if the artist hasn't personally experienced it. You're just being a sanctimonious prick who likes diminishing other people's achievements.
Let me ask YOU a question. Have you ever produced a music album? Have you ever slaved your guts out with a team of like-minded musicians day and night, going without sleep, trying to nail the perfect mix that encapsulates perfectly the raw emotion you feel? No, you haven't, because you're a lazy cretin who'd rather point the finger at the easy target than actually do something worthwhile. Now go and play, you ridiculous little maggot.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:02, archived)

I am so scared... really, what are you going to do?
No, I have not stayed up for days making an album. I do not want to diminish other peoples' achievements.
I have absolutely no problem with them as musicians. TO be in fact, I own some of their albums and find the music quite good. But how can you rightly, as a person, say that you understand me, when you don't? WHen you couldn't because you have never REALLY lived it.
Here's an example. I have a friend that considers himself worldly because he traveled to Asia. He grew up very affluent and wants to talk about nothing but how he's so fucking awesome and in touch with the indigent peoples of wherever the fuck. He's a genuine traveler, right?
So I asked him, did he once eat with them, or spend weeks living as they did? No. He was a tourist, passing through. That's their lives. I submit that Mister Zach is a fucking tourist. ANd I happen to know I'm right.
So lick it up, faggot. I can bitch slap on the internet as well.
Ooooooooo..... scary you....
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:11, archived)

Note for anyone looking through THE LIST: Scoopzilla is a massive prick.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:13, archived)

all you lot do is push your own agenda and jump down the throats of anyone who disagrees; all while calling them cunts.
SO.. whatever. You're internet awesome and I am clearly a nitwit. Whatever. You go with that.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:27, archived)

( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:22, archived)

*runs upstairs*
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:18, archived)

so frustrating...
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:30, archived)

that's not a bitchslap. That's you failing Rhetoric 101. That's you showing you're not mature enough to follow a coherent train of thought or intelligent enough to reply with a relevant answer.
But character assassinations aside, your argument suggests that Shakespeare is worthless because he was never a Danish Prince who had his father killed by his uncle. It's a music album. It's the voice of an artist. If he feels a link with a group, and is able to express the voice of that group in such a way that that group appreciates it, then surely he's even greater than the average poor person for being able to attune himself to their feelings.
So fuck off for six years, grow up, then come back when you've either got a decent argument or some decent insults, you teenager.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:18, archived)

it's about my age. I am willing to guess you're young.
But again, really... what are you going to do? c'mon...
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:19, archived)

this is just about showing you up for the clumsy-headed prejudiced fool that you are. You'd better throw your Decemberist CDs away, they were never chimbley sweeps and I bet you hate them talking to you as they identify with the plight of the Victorian street urchin, the fucking fakers.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:30, archived)

who looked like they were dirnking too much and....oh
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:47, archived)

in asia and has never gone on about the plight of the people a sif he may bleed their blood for them is in fact quite sensible for neve rhaving bothered to mention to me how people live when he's seen it for quite some every fucking day of the week
btw just because you have rich parents you don't automatically become a snobby little fucker who's only pleasure in life is money
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:20, archived)

so how can you know? Come visit, and if you don't believe me you will before you leave.
And I applaud your mate. This isn't the same thing.
( , Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:25, archived)