He talked about this, on an interview broadcast last week with Mike Hosking on Sunday. As far as he's concerned, he owes his entire music existence to advertisers - he'd been stooging along making music that no-one had ever heard of, making no money. He believed that he was making music worthy of being listened to by a wider audience, so started working out product placements for his music. On the back of that, when Play came out, sales went through the roof - justifying his faith in his music.

I don't know if this is enough to convince me of wankerdom: millions of people presumably like listening to Moby's music, so arguably have had their lives improved as a result. They have only come to know of it because of his willingness to market it, so that step has improved the lives of millions. From that perspective, he's a saint.

Just to add a little extra to this....

is there actually anything wrong with selling your music to such extremes... if you're not changing your music in order for it to sell, then why not make as much money off it as you can, God knows you would normally put a lot of your time and energy into creating it.

I can see an arguement to writing your music just so you can sell it... but then is this even that bad? personally i would have to make sure i like or enjoy playing what i'm writting... but as a general rule, you can sing or play an instrument... then why not use it to make money?

his music really fucking sucks too. that's why I hate him heh.

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hey! leave moby alone, i think he's a fucken wicked musicican. so what if he's given all of his songs to advertisers. without them, he wouldn't have become this well-known and people wouldn't have been able to know how talented he is.