Pages tagged “Kid Rock”

photo by Danny Clinch

Paste has tried hard not to turn our magazine or website into a platform for our own various political opinions.  We recognize that people look to us for cultural guidance but generally think there are better places to find political commentary than a music magazine. For the sake of full disclosure, I'll be voting for Obama/Biden, but beyond that, I'll just refer you to The Economist. But music at the conventions is fair game, and it's hard not to note that last week in Denver featured pro-Obama concerts from Death Cab For Cutie, Stevie Wonder, Nada Surf, Black Eyed Peas, Cold War Kids, Jenny Lewis, Kanye West and Alejandro Escovedo, who blogged for us from the Democratic National Convention. And the Republicans have, well, John Rich, Gretchen Wilson and Rachael Lampa.

To hear Matt Mason tell it, if you want to change the world your best bet is not realpolitik, but innovative piracy.

Kid Rock just wants to be a cowboy, baby. He's upping the ante from his recent endorsement of stealing music; now he's telling the kids to steal everything. In a curious public service announcement uploaded to YouTube, Mr. Bob Ritchie lambasts the music industry, Tommy Hilfiger, big oil, Apple and Microsoft, and Toyota Motors for the billions of dollars in collective profits they reap yearly. Nothing is safe from Kid Rock's anti-corporate ire: "I'm fuckin' rich," he rasps. "So how can I bitch about someone downloading a song or two?"