Kurt Cobain's letter to MTV sells for $12,800

Northwest Music Obscene
With Abby Roadkill

Dear Empty TV
the entity of all Corporate
GODS
We will survive without you
easily - - the
oldschool is going
DOWN FAST
my lifes Dedication
is Now to Do Nothing
But SLAG something
Kurdt Kobaineee professional Rock musician....
Sometime in 1993, Kurt Cobain scrawled this note to MTV but never managed to actually mail it. On October 8th 2010 it sold at auction for $12,800. The auction house, Julien’s Live, also posted a video of an interview with Nirvana at the 1993 MTV music awards. In it, they rail (more like whine) against the monopoly that MTV had on music listenership. Asked why they showed up for the event, Krist “I’m riding the coat tails and coffin nails of Kurt” Novoselic complains, “They won’t play our videos if we didn’t. We sold out.” Kurt begs the audience to kill them and states later that he’s quitting.
If I seem a wee bitter it’s because I am. Rock stars complaining about the medium that made them rich and famous is like the “anarchist” bitching about the government at the grocery store while paying with foodstamps. I’d like to go out on a limb for a moment and give you something to think about.
What if Kurt and the boys were full of shit?
Do you think maybe they railed against the establishment to sell more records?
Think about it.
Grunge was a watered down version of punk rock and the precursor to emo. All that teenage angst and hatred of “the man” with a huge dose of self-pity thrown in for good measure was just the thing kids of the nineties could relate to and spend their parent’s money on.
Fucking brilliant if you ask me.
I know this is going to piss off a few diehards but I don’t really care. They might ask me how I can be so cruel when writing about “the voice of our generation.” It’s in poor taste to speak ill of the dead. I really don’t give a fuck. To me, Kurt Cobain will always be a fucking pussy. He got what he wanted and then, instead of just quitting when it turned out different than he imagined, he became what he supposedly hated; the ultimate consumer. He transformed from hero to zero with one squeeze of the trigger, consuming the business end of a 12 gauge shotgun. Would you like fries with that?


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