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A wild WITHAK appeared!4/21/2016 8:02:43 am PDT

Re: The Billy Corgan on Alex Jones nonsense waaaay upthread.

Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favorite bands of all time. I still listen to Siamese Dream — it’s one of the few albums I keep on my phone’s limited storage. I never saw the band as a whole in a live setting, but last year, my brother surprised me for my birthday with tickets to an all-acoustic show billed as “Smashing Pumpkins” that was just Billy with a handful of guest musicians. It was magnificent.

Like I said, I’m a huge fan, but it’ s been apparent for a long time that Billy is kind of a dick, and pretty much nuts. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that he’d be attracted to Alex Jones.

But I’m going to go on enjoying Smashing Pumpkins — mostly their older stuff, for nostalgia, because the newer stuff is positively meh — because I learned a long time ago that if you can’t separate an artist from their art due to political or personal differences, and thus choose not to partake, you’re going to run out of art to enjoy if you scrutinize the artists too closely.

Obviously, there are exceptions; I’ve refused to read Ender’s Game (or see the movie) because of Orson Scott Card’s active campaigning against gay rights. For me, he went beyond “being a dick” into “supporting legislation that makes being a dick the law.”