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"Thurston Moore has now placed sixty anti-war songs on his new Web\nsite, protest-records.com, for free download. The site, now two\nweeks old, received a half-million hits in its first three days,\nand the Sonic Youth guitarist has received hundreds of song\nsubmissions as well as thousands of emails, both supportive and\ncranky.\n&amp;quot;I get a little hate mail,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;You know, &amp;apos;How dare you go\nagainst our men and women who are fighting?&amp;apos; But it&amp;apos;s so\nvitriolic. I&amp;apos;m like, &amp;apos;You hypocrite, the most violent thing I&amp;apos;ve\nread today is your email.&amp;apos; And there&amp;apos;s no dialogue. It&amp;apos;s more like,\n&amp;apos;Fuck you! Sonic youth is gay!&amp;quot; I&amp;apos;ll just say, &amp;apos;We&amp;apos;re\nprotesting policy. We&amp;apos;re not protesting people. I&amp;apos;m not hating the\npeople I call war pigs, I&amp;apos;m just hating their ideas.&amp;apos; But this\nconcept doesn&amp;apos;t seem to make sense to these people who are\ncompletely furious.&amp;quot;\nIn addition to the earlier offerings by the Beastie Boys (&amp;quot;In a\nWorld Gone Mad&amp;quot;), Sonic Youth (&amp;quot;Youth Against Facism&amp;quot;), Cat Power\n(&amp;quot;Rockets,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Maybe Not&amp;quot;), Jim O&amp;apos;Rourke and Glenn Kotche (a cover of\nBill Fay&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Pictures of Adolf&amp;quot;) and Chumbawumba (&amp;quot;Jacob&amp;apos;s Ladder&amp;quot;),\nthe site has recently added a pair of songs by the Moldy Peaches&amp;apos;\nKimya Dawson (&amp;quot;Viva la Persistence,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Anthrax&amp;quot;) and tracks by Jonny\nPolansky and Peter Stuart.\n&amp;quot;My aesthetic is towards things that are a bit more\nchallenging,&amp;quot; Moore says, &amp;quot;and lot of them are more genre specific,\nvery straight-up folk songs like a kind of New England Woodstock\nvibe or a Lilith Fair vibe. I appreciate it, but it&amp;apos;s not really my\ncup of tea. But I&amp;apos;m trying to think in a broader sense, because\nit&amp;apos;s about the emotional appeal.&amp;quot;\nThe site also has a number of stencils created by New York City\nartist Chris Habib available to download, print, cut and paint\nover, including George W. Bush&amp;apos;s head superimposed over a set of\ncrossbones, and a flaming, upside-down flag with &amp;quot;Fuck the Flag&amp;quot;\nprinted below. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s created a lot of heat too,&amp;quot; Moore says. &amp;quot;But\nwe&amp;apos;re like, &amp;apos;No, no, no, they fucked the flag. The fuckers\nin D.C. have fucked the flag.&amp;apos; It does create some ideological\nnitpicking. He has a few other ones that were a little too hardcore\n[laughs].&amp;quot;\n\nSo far the site has ten sections allotted for ten songs each,\nwith six sections filled. Responding to emails (and Moore responds\nto them all) and sorting through the songs has taken up more time\nthan Moore initially thought, but the site is his active, ongoing\nprotest. &amp;quot;To me it&amp;apos;s all about applying yourself to what you can\ndo,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m not one for being too physically active in\nphysical protests, because it frightens me, especially with my\nresponsibility as a father. I also wanted to put my energy into\nsomething to do with music and communication.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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