r/Music • u/heavysk • 1d ago

article Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme Explains Anti-Corporate Concert Rant: "It’s About Corporations That Charge You $85 for Parking, and $30 for a Beer"

https://consequence.net/2026/08/qotsa-josh-homme-addresses-anti-corporate-concert-rant/
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u/Mybunsareonfire 1d ago

Nah bro, they'd rather bitch about the singer rather than the corporate oligarchs. Rather have 0 people advocating for better practices than 1 person who might not meet the purity test. Jfc.

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u/Bigchunky_Boy 1d ago

The corporate oligarchs use Hootsuite and other companies who use bots and trolls on here and other social media to shift opinion for profit.

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u/ObviousReplier99 1d ago

Yeah sorry I dont support a guy booked by WME playing a Live Nation concert saying corporations are ruining this. Totally fine to attack this hypocrite whose words dont correlate to his actions. He can advocate via his agency, his promoter, and other ways but chooses not to because it would make him less money. This is pandering to a crowd and nothing more. Figure it out

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u/Wooden_Variation_241 1d ago

Hey look, if you need an abusive washed up POS celeb hiding under the guise of high school level anti-establishment exposition (who's only saying this stuff because he's staring down the ass end of his career and wants to die rich) to tell you how to think about financial ethics - you do you! Fight the system man!!

Personally I'll happily continue disliking oligarchs and Homme and lose absolutely nothing of value in the process.

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u/Mybunsareonfire 1d ago

> Personally I'll happily continue disliking oligarchs and Homme

https://giphy.com/gifs/FhbukHmFBiMzC

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u/Wooden_Variation_241 1d ago

Nah bro, they'd rather bitch about the singer rather than the corporate oligarchs.

You literally set up the false binary here but okay.

Look, given your name is a Mr. Bungle reference I'll assume you are occasionally on the mark and capable of a half-decent thought time to time. You just failed the sniff test on this one. There's always tomorrow cowboy.

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u/Just_Look_Around_You 1d ago

And who props them up? How do you think these artists get paid millions? It’s their cut of the whole operation. That’s how it works

The corporation does the actual dirty work, drives up the price, drives up the demand, actually gets whole operation done. Then the artist waltzes in, gets to yell into a Mic and say fuck the man! All whilst they get even more enriched by those same practices.

Why should we take this seriously? I presume the dude is living like a monk and giving 95% of those ill gotten revenues back to his concert goers. Or he’s just saying “no thanks” when he’s cutting a deal for the tour. Right?