against me signs to a major label!!! punx get angry! the rest of the world doesn't care!

By now the news of Against Me signing the dotted line to Sire/Warner Bros. is pretty old news. I waited a few days to write about it to see how I felt...and to be honest, I don't give a fuck. In fact, nobody should really care.

It's good that a self-proclaimed anarchist band like Against Me get signed to a major record label. It means that these labels and corporations that punk kids (real punks, not the poser mall punks) fight so often can be destroyed within. The idea that the next Against Me album may no doubt talk shit about the system, yet uses the system's money to fund and release these ideas puts a smile on my jaded heart.

Also, they signed to Sire. You know who else was on Sire? Morrissey, Talking Heads and Madonna, suckers. It's not as if they signed to the punk label du jour, Island/Def Jam, started partying with Jay-Z and Beanie Siegel, and putting out a half-assed release.

I think this signing will be problematic for the band if they start sounding like Sum 41 or The Starting Line, which, given their track record, I don't really see happening.

So in closing, good for Against Me and bad for you if you're 29 years old and still living out your SLC Punk fantasy.

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