Smashing Pumpkins Sells Out For VISA Commercial

Huffington Post
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Arthur Delaney
March 07, 2009Media

In a 2004 Newsweek interview, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan said he turned down "heavy, heavy money" to license his band's hit song, "Today," because, as he put it, some things are sacred:

The record company's literally begging me: go ahead and take these commercials. At this point in my life, I don't feel comfortable. Those songs are the reason I'm alive. If your music is not sacred to the point where it's a really, really, really heavy decision about whether or not you would allow somebody else to exploit it, then what's not for sale?

Times have changed. Get a load of this new Visa credit card commercial, featuring a familiar tune:

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