REBEL TO SELL

An awful lot of indie music is turning up on commercials for luxury items these days. Why? “If selling today’s college kids on conspicuous consumption is easy, selling it to twenty- and thirty-year-olds is a trickier proposition: how to define in marketing terms a demographic which, not so long ago, defined itself in opposition to the market? The answer is simple if you grant that ironies are like submarines; dangerous only when submerged.” – Feed