Celebrity Money

[timbaly]

Why do people who can barley pay the rent go to the movies to watch overpayed celebrities act? Why do they go to sporting events to watch overpayed athletes play a sport? Why do people go to concerts to see famous singers who are picked by the industry because of their good looks even though there are more talented people who aren't famous just because they are over 35 or because they're ugly looking in the publics opinion? ALL these people get rich because the working class citizenpays for overpriced tickets to these events, there should be a boycott to stop the continually increasing price of movie, sports and concert tickets! Then these celebrities end up with more money than they need and they buy the stupidest pieces of garbage to decorate their houses. They buy 10 different sets of plates forks and other utensils. They buy million dollar watches, cars and clothes. THIS is all at the expense of the working class!

[andresG]

Yes I agree with you Timbaly, you make a lot of sense. It disgusts me when I see a person, which I know has barely enough money to get by, wearing the latest Michael Jordan sneakers.
But I also tell you this:
Have you ever been to a movie?
Have you ever been to a baseball game?
Have you ever bought a CD?

I'm sure your answer to all of these is yes. I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm just trying to prove that it's very difficult to avoid all these things. We are bombarded with images of items at all moments(commercials on TV, billboards, newspaper and magazine articles.) Also many times I have even gone to a movie, not because I wanted to really see the movie, but just because I wanted to hang out with friends. I am sure we could have found something better to do, but going to the movies always seems so easy and simple. So what needs to be done is a nationwide, even worldwide, boycott on items that make filty rich celebrities and athletes even richer. But that will be impossible, especially in the United States, where this society does not give a shit about the inequality in social classes.

[timbaly]

I try to get burned cd's for the most part and i have made a pledge to stop going to see sporting events. BUT the movies get me even though they're so predictable and the best parts are given away in the commercials

[MJM]

We're bombarded by 3,000 adverstisments a day.
It's little wonder people do things that are totally unreasonable and outside their means to live.

[timbaly]

I'm proud to say i have never bought a video tape or dvd, i try to tape the movies on TV

[Lefty]

i avoid the type of music you mention (teen pop)
i watch films that have a point, or have some other redeeming factor (i.e. the cars in "the fast and the furious"
i watch sports because of the people's superior talent and i also play them to improve mine

[pce]

people go to the movies, buy cds, and go to sport events because it helps them forget their problems. (this also happened during the great depression. one of he only industries that didn't get hurt from the depression was the film industry. in fact the great depression lead to the 'golden age' of hollywood because so many people were willing to go to the movies to escape their lives.)

also, remember that not all music or movies are crap.

[Kez]

its due to capitalism we buy so much, its a culture of competition with mankind against ourselves.

Also, not all films are bad, id willingly pay high prices to go to films by pablo nuredo, and the such, but fuckers like arnie can fuck off and die ucnts.

comrade kamo

[Vide]

It's called consumerism, the North American way of life. You can complain all you like about it, but until you change your own way of life, it won't be worth much. Hypocrisy impresses no one.

[Lefty]

the only way you can truly stop consuming is to exile yourself to a hermetic shack in the wilds of Canada and be completely self sufficient. Anything less, and you are a consumer. If you stop buying, what will happen to you? True, you will be a non-hypocrite, but you will also be smelly, bored and hungry.

[Vide]

Consumerism and consuming are two different things. I agree, it's rather difficult to live without food and clothes and a roof over your head, but buying those things does not mean you have to buy into the consumer culture that accompanies them.