We're at day four of the NCAA Tournament and so far so good, as all of my Final Four and most of my Sweet Sixteen is still alive (though, we haven't play today's games yet so that is said as I simultaneously knock on wood). Anyway, today's musical interlude is a special basketball tribute, but also serves as a warning. Back in the early 1990s, G. Love and Special Sauce was a mildly popular musical act with a solid indy following. But then they recorded a cover of Coca-Cola's "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". So now they had some commercial success, but pissed off a lot of their loyal fans in the process. Then all their new fans found out that the rest of their musical catalog wasn't particularly strong, so they stopped buying the band's albums. Basically, G. Love managed to alienate everyone. So, let that be a lesson to all the indy rock bands out there: if you're going to sell out, sell all the way out. Going halfway doesn't work out for anyone.
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