To have bought Rage Against the Machine....

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...... 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 think i may still have some in shoe boxes somewhere - they were always kept in shoeboxes, didn't have the cash for one of those fancy tape holders!

Yay, I am so pleased RATM won out. If the X factor song was anywhere near a decent song it could have stood a chance on its own merits. But it's not, it's mediocre schmaltzy lounge singer crap. If it were released without all of the hype around the X factor, mid year, it wouldn't even make the top 20.

Fantastic result loved the song when it first came out. RATM are donating royalties from the track to the homeless charity shelter so an even better result. The X factor song is yet another cover version and a dull one at that. Cowell should come up with an original song not some namby pamby rubbish that is aimed at the tone deaf.

WOOOOOOOO!!!!

bye bye xfactor your grip on the sad acts of england is over, rule on RATM!

YABVVU talk about being sucked in by a big load of cynical marketing!!! At least with the X-factor bubblegum pop you know what you are buying, its comercial music - just like rage against the machine!! niave!

oh, hush my mouth - i didnt know that they were donating their royalties to homeless charity - go RATM!!! lol

The Just Giving page that the guys promoting RATM have set up has raised over £72,000 for Shelter - pretty amazing!

Just Giving Page

if you're interested [fmsile]

Wonderful! I can't take anymore X - Factor no.1 shite - just saw a clip of RATM on telly and was delighted to see a bit of rough performing rather than the airbrushed crap constantly presented in the charts...

Hooray. This was my thread originally and DH and I are so chuffed that x factors monopoly is broken. Had it been a half way decent song it might hav stood alone but it was not. Generous speech tho by the x factor boy. Have never watched x factor and never will.

Well, I'm personally delighted.

Because it's injected a spark of interest and enthusiam back into the Christmas No. 1 AND it's raised a great sum of money for a very worthy cause...

I haven't seen this many people show a REAL interest in the charts for such a long time and that's great because it does get people thinking about what is being put out there and reminds them that they do have a choice in the matter.

I've heard several people say that 'it's not fair to Joe and that he didn't deserve to be in this position' - Well, Neither did he *deserve the automatic right to be No. 1 just because he won a bloody talent show.

There again, I like RATM and have several albums... I'm still chuckling about the OP whistfully thinking of St. Winifreds choir!!!

oh its hilarious isn't it? On so many levels

fukyoo I won't do whatcha tell me

go and download this single - get it to number one

oh ok then

hehe. I downloaded it as well. Most amusing

Over the moon!

I don't get the argument about people 'doing what they're told' - everyone is telling someone to do/not do something, but we're exercising freedom of choice.

In my mind, it's got more to do with who is doing the telling. I'd rather take a suggestion from a group of people who don't stand to profit and have a good idea, than take a suggestion from Simon Cowell who has a sense of entitlement about the whole thing.

Did the Berlin wall come down because someone 'told' them to?

Well done everyone who bought it.

eh what's the berlin wall got to do with it? This is rage not the scorpions!

nah I'm loving killing in the name of being no 1. I think its funny and great

People actually care what song is number one?

I think people have got increasingly frustrated by the x factor assumption that the winner releases and wins the coveted Christmas top spot. It used to be fun.

I wonder if x factor will have this next year too