How would we struggle by without the tabloid press to launch crusades on our behalf? The Mirror this morning declares in the wake of Dave Gilmour pledging his share of Pink Floyd's increased sales and certainly with no eye at all on today's climax to Geldof's programme of G8 events, needless to say almost completely washed away in the tide of Mariah-bating, that it was their campaign all along to get bands to pledge their surplus royalties to charity. Not labels, of course, because you never know when another sales spike free CD will be required. They're claiming support from McCartney and the Who, which is nice but just happens to pick out surely the three acts who can afford to give away any extra over because of their sales in the intervening 35+ years. Your turn, Borrell.
Why, by the way, in those lists of Live 8 performers' sales boosts is only the drop for the Libertines' Up The Bracket listed as proof of how badly Pete Doherty went down? Did their second album have a greater drop in week on week sales, or not as spectacular a decrease, or not a decrease at all? How many people are we actually talking about who bought these records last week?
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