To have bought Rage Against the Machine....

[JingleAllTheWay]

...... Having never actually heard it, and only because I honestly cannot stand the X factor and the way there is no fun in the Christmas single race anymore

DH has bought it too, so it's not just me.

PS team cola to win.

I bought it, liked and owned the song already but anything to create a bit of competition. And give me any proper song, written and recorded by the band, than a karaoke singer covering Miley Cyrus (!)

And I don't feel sorry for Joe in the slightest. If he loses out this week (which he probably won't), it'll be number one next week anyway.

I bought it. It's all good fun! fingers crossed

Also, the RATM facebook group have raised almost 60,000 quid for Shelter so anyone saying it's about hate is really misled.

For Cowell to equate this to bullying is offensive to those who have actually been bullied.

who is Miley Cyrus? i keep hearing the name!

she s Billy Ray Cyrus DD who plays Hannah Montana in the childrens show

agree both records are rubbish though

I think the whole thing is childish. People are objecting to having no control over xmas number one but are then going and buying or downloading a different single because they have been told to. Slightly odd

I don't like either song, but Joe has conducted himself in a far more grown up manner wrt to the whole thing and so if I had to buy one, it would be his.

RATM are acting like 4 yr olds imo, 'oh look at me, i can swear'

If you like it, its ok, if not, why are you worrying about things you don't like.

Isn't it better to spend your money on music you DO like & make yourself happier?

Happy Christmas!

well, we will find out soon either way !!

I won't be buying either of them.
They are both a bit shit.
I'd rather buy Slade

Am gutted that george micheals recird compny didn't press enough of his gorgy song to be in the running. It makes me cry every time I hear it

I think Jedward covering RATM should be Christmas number one, and I have set up a facebook group saying so (26 members so far, I feel almost famous).

make that 27 Jenbot ( although I'm not on facebook but I would be if could get round to it!)

as far as i'm concerned the best thing that has ever come out of X factor, which I consider a total heap of steaming wazz, is that I have been reminded how effing good RATM are. Reliving my early 20s

I do love the irony of it all though, choosing a band who are very anti consumerism for a buying campaign..

I might listen to the top 10 for the first time in about 15 years tonight....

"i think i may be able to class my self as a slip of a girl in Dec 1992, i'd have been 14 nearly 15, songs like this on my tape recorded from the radio with my hair very badly dyed using henna and tie dye clothing"

Ah, Katz, just like me !! We had a mania for making mixtapes with collage covers from music magazines

apparently

1. KILLING IN THE NAME RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 502672
2. THE CLIMB JOE MCELDERRY 450838

do you mean rage against the machine has got no 1 blackyellowred?

seems like it!

Yeah ! Smack that Cowell !!!!!!

Yep... seems to have been confirmed now!!

yay!! liked watching the x factor but they had ruined the xmas number 1.

power to the people!!!!!!!

Good just wish it had been a more xmassy song than RATM but glad x factor reign is over!

i think ratm was a perfect rebel song for the protest against everything that simon cowell stands for.

people are getting bored of all this manufactured rubbish that he pumps out,

fibilou - would that have been front covers from Smash hits magazine? Then your tapes would have looked like mine.

I miss mix-tapes with there poor sound quality and the clunk and blank gaps from my useless recording skills. Those were the days

Music has never been so important to me that I actually buy it. Does that make me weird. I think too much importance is placed on music tbh. Don't buy any of them I say.

yes, Katz, that would be the ones !