I almost put this up in the "popular threads ".

C'Mon Man!...Judas Priest music for a MINI VAN ad????

We all saw it coming, but David Bowie's "Changes" was used for a DIAPER COMMERCIAL!
Is anyone else offended? Getting old sucks!

How about Iggy Pops song " lust for life" to sell family cruises for carnival, unbelievable! After all in case anyone forgot the song was about Heroin. Yes sir,sometimes getting old is painful..lol..

Most times these days, it is the artist themselves that allow the music to be used for commercial purposes. It is their intellectual property so who am I to question how they want it used?

It's also partly a sign of our always shifting culture. Sometimes artists see commercialization of their works to be the ultimate success; other times as an abomination. I've seen that attitude shift back and forth several times in my life.

I think it depends on the artist as much as the times. Pete Townshend has been writing songs since the mid-60s and has no problem letting his music be used for commercial use.

In a way, I am glad that commercials will use songs that I grew up listening too so that this generation will hear some darn good music (and not this crap we get today).

I absolutely agree. It was during Townsend and the Who's early years, that one of those attitude shifts happened, too. The Beatles were the same way at first, then the general anti-establishment fad wave led a lot of fans of music to look down their noses at artists who "sold out," and a lot of them stopped doing it. Many went right back later.

Something else to keep in mind, if this is something that bothers you, is that a lot of artists don't have any personal control over their own works. The Beatles lost control over all of their own material a long while back, when Michael Jackson bought ownership of their copyrights. McCartney has been trying to get it back for decades since, but has had no luck so far.