Hipster Heartbreak: Folk Songwriter Kurt Vile Receives Bank
Money, Condemnation from Peers  Mic check! MIC CHECK! Okay,
thanks. Listen up, everybody, this is like the worst thing since
Modest Mouse got on the radio. Kurt Vile has sold out. I'm not
just talking a commercial for some Bono charity or a restaurant
chain; this is the big one--a bank! Bank of America! Hasn't he
been watching Jeff Mangum? We know who our enemies are, Kurt! We
know who our enemies are--not our NMEs, totally different--and
Bank of America is so our enemy!  [youtube 63KB-EJKdyI nolink]
Last week, Patrick Stickles, frontman for New Jersey punk
rockers Titus Andronicus, called out Philadelphia neo-folkie
Kurt Vile on Twitter for licensing his song "Baby's Arms" to
Bank of America, which used it in a TV commercial.  Over the
course of two tweets, Stickles wrote, "Come on, Kurt Vile, yr a
million times better than that. #crushcapitalism If it is even
true! Can someone confirm? if it is real, then you need to get
real, man. I thought you w