The Boy Bands Have Won

Referred to as "The Boy Bands Have Won" on the inlay and spine, the following "full" title appears on the front of the packaging: "The boy bands have won, and all the copyists and the tribute bands and the TV talent show producers have won, if we allow our culture to be shaped by mimicry, whether from lack of ideas or from exaggerated respect. You should never try to freeze culture. What you can do is recycle that culture. Take your older brother's hand-me-down jacket and re-style it, re-fashion it to the point where it becomes your own. But don't just regurgitate creative history, or hold art and music and literature as fixed, untouchable and kept under glass. The people who try to 'guard' any particular form of music are, like the copyists and manufactured bands, doing it the worst disservice, because the only thing that you can do to music that will damage it is not change it, not make it your own. Because then it dies, then it's over, then it's done, and the boy bands have won." On record: ℗ 2008 For UK: No Masters Co-operative Ltd ℗ 2008 For EU: Westpark Music, Cologne On sleeve ℗ For UK: No Masters ℗ For EU: Westpark Music © 2008 Chumbawamba Sleeve printed on 100% recycled material Gatefold cardboard sleeve with 16-page booklet