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Philadelphia, PA. – NYC electropunk outfit Mindless Self Indulgence
has been asked by iTunes to change the genre that they are filed under.
Presently MSI is filed under 'religious' because of their devout fan
base and cult-like following (currently having shipped 180,000 CD's in
the last year alone). Apparently this has angered some Christian
organizations who have filed complaints with the digital music giant to get
the band's music removed from that category. Several Christians appear to
have purchased the seemingly offensive material, on faith, even though
it clearly was marked as being explicit material. Part of what seemed
to annoy them was how well MSI's album, "You'll Rebel To Anything", did
reaching #27 on the iTunes Christian/gospel charts! When asked what he
thought of this controversy, MSI's singer, Jimmy Urine had this to say…
"It was iTunes, not us, that interpreted "religious" to mean Christian.
What is offensive to some people is obviously inspirational to o
thers. To our fans this IS inspirational music. I have no intention of
changing the genre listing of this album."
Mindless Self Indulgence will be performing at this year’s Give It A
Name Festival in the UK. Hear their new song, "There are too many bands
and not enough Mark David Chapmans" on My Space.
posted on 01.25.07 at 06:46:41 PM by tearaway
