Comments on: Simon Cowell versus RATM cage match? RATM wins!! http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/12/21/simon-cowell-versus-ratm-cage-match-ratm-wins/ The official blog of KVNU's For the People Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jason Williams http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/12/21/simon-cowell-versus-ratm-cage-match-ratm-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-126153 Jason Williams Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:17:46 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=5119#comment-126153 Social media. Saving the world one battle at a time. In all seriousness though, it's very cool when things like this happen. There are stories lately (growing increasingly frequent) of fans using Facebook etc to even pressure record companies into releasing material they hadn't planned to (I think it was Fionna Apple in 2005... record company wasn't going to release her cd, dump it on a smaller distribution platform so no one would get a chance to buy it, etc, fans pestered them into doing it with a facebook group and email campaign). Love that stuff. And consider the cross over effect it could have (has had occasionally) in politics. Very cool. Social media. Saving the world one battle at a time.

In all seriousness though, it’s very cool when things like this happen. There are stories lately (growing increasingly frequent) of fans using Facebook etc to even pressure record companies into releasing material they hadn’t planned to (I think it was Fionna Apple in 2005… record company wasn’t going to release her cd, dump it on a smaller distribution platform so no one would get a chance to buy it, etc, fans pestered them into doing it with a facebook group and email campaign).

Love that stuff. And consider the cross over effect it could have (has had occasionally) in politics. Very cool.

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