This one goes out to the continuing erosion of the concept of individual responsibility.  It’s old, but in the words of Mr. Manson, “If I ain’t seen it, it’s new to me.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-6IppcvRo [non embedable]

TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French has re-recorded the band’s 1984 hit song “I Wanna Rock”, dubbing the new version “I Want Barack”. According to The Associated Press, French said that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has energized a new generation of voters who had lost interest in politics. French explained, “He has excited so many people. He has given sincere hope to people who have been out of the arena for years.”

French plays guitar on the track, which features vocals from a singer named Paulie Z.JAY JAY FRENCH AND FRIENDS. The guitarist added that this was not a TWISTED SISTER project because that band’s members were split on which candidates they supported.

The Obama camp did not immediately comment on the song, which is not the first in support of the candidate. BLACK EYED PEAS frontman Will.i.am has recorded two songs with accompanying videos in support of Obama.

French is a lifelong liberal Democrat whose mother campaigned for John F. Kennedy. The song has come out under the banner

That last image is a little creepy. Aren’t images of Christ often with the light beaming from behind too?

Bosco sent this to me last night. Grab it here. Lyrics follow “bad spellings and all.”

We’ve got

Criminal action
by government factions
neolibs, neocons
Andrew Jackson

Hillary, Oboma
You know you gonna wanna
chime in on our defaltin’ dolla

thoughts on property
bile’s always stopping me
grab your dictionary
false dichotomy

Economics straight outta Australia
Rothbard’s kangaroos sure won’t fail ya

RFIDs and UUIDs
for isms I seem
to use as I please

Land of bile dot com
we’ve got your argument

Come see violence inherent in the system
Anthony Gregory was here but you missed him

bile’s pro hard sell
beetlbum jl
always tries to tell
when things won’t go well

posts grow size
when we realize
that we despise
the apparent lies

theres a war on
keeps the debates going
posts keep flowing
biles always showin’

interventionalist policy
police the world for you and me

ethics, liberty, economics
if you wanna get involved best come equipped
know your acronyms and you will see
that LVT still sways me

xyz comes in from the top rope
counter point to the marxism I wrote
she busts out a fable
I get unstable
slamming the keys as fast as I’m able

Land of bile dot com
we’ve got your argument

From the bowels of mind
bile’s not the kind
To let you get by
or let a comment slide

Got Mises behind him and Cato too
Stacks of books so what you gonna do
Expect lots of quotes and stuff to read
Some farmboy stuff, his dad sells feed

Expect me to chime in
Debate to begin
It’s hard to lose
when you don’t care to win

Alex Jones
Bohemian Grove
End of the world
Wade and Roe

Public schoolteacher taking abuse
For the statist career I choose

Changes in opinion
Make biles head spin
my fluid views
too hard to pin

Ron Paul, invisipunk
political bunk
Cops search your trunk
cause they think you’re buying junk

Police State one two three
media, videos is where they be
Statists always getting fat
Where’s the reynolds at
Make me don my tin foil hat

PEACE!

http://www.myspace.com/aimeeallenThere are a decent number of songs which have been written about Ron Paul. Most of them however are pretty bad. Up to this point the one I like the most was King Solomon’s “Ron Paul for the Long Haul.”

Today however I ran across Aimee Allen’s “Ron Paul Revolution Theme Song.” Have to say it’s pretty good given what has come before it.

http://www.nin.com/

Several years ago I persuaded my record company to let me begin posting my master recording files on nin.com, in order to see what kind of user-generated content would materialize from my music. I had no agenda… the main reason I did it was because I thought it was cool and something I would have liked to do if it was available to me.

One piece was missing to me and that was an official nin.com presence for aggregating all of the fan-created remixes. Several intrepid fans had stepped up and done a great job providing a destination for people to post these, but I felt all along this was a function I should more directly support. So, upon release of this new remix album, our plan has been to launch an official site on nin.com that would provide a place for all fan remix material and other interactive fan experiences.

Or so I thought.

Boils down to Universal not wanting to be accused of something it’s suing others for doing related to copyright infringement and the DMCA. Copyright really should be thrown away and replaced with traditional contracts. Let the market figure out ways to secure their works.

http://nin.com

Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed.

I’m interested in seeing what comes next.