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Originally posted by JoeyB
As long as a Led Zeppelin song is used to sell cars, I don't think we should get upset at a cartoon being aligned with a credit card company.
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Good point. That's why I included option 3 in the poll - it's been going on for quite a while - Bob Seeger selling Chevy trucks; Steve Miller touting the Postal Service; all the way up to Britney and Pepsi. And yes - even Led Zeppelin hawking Cadillacs.
I guess by using the word "sellout", I was showing my age - it's been going on so long now that generations of consumers know nothing else - that's how long cash has been king. Just as a history lesson, though - it used to be that people didn't sell their image to corporations - they only supported products they truly believed in. And people used to be wary of Corporate America, but we grew complacent and now they own us. Now it's all about the money. Sometimes I forget.
And if AOL offered me a couple of million $$ to sell their stuff, I'd probably do it, too - I have officially become comfortably numb.