Anti-Endorsement

People should buy something because it is good, not because somebody famous gets paid to talk it up.

Endorsers do not usually go to companies and say "I love your product, I want to recommend it." Typically a celebrity is approached by corporate marketers to endorse something they could care less about in exchange for lots of money that comes out of the pockets of the celebrity's fans who buy the products that justify the endorsement fee to the marketers.

"Everyone is hawking products, that’s like the highest thing you can achieve? Sinatra hawks beer, he doesn’t have enough money …Nothing’s sacred to these fucks. I’m waiting to see Jesus for Miller…You don’t see the immenant danger do you… “Well their just musicians doing their thing-” NO! They are demons set loose on the earth lower the standards for the perfect and holy children of god, which is what we are, make no mistake about it. What happened to us? After eight years of Ronald Reagan and yuppies we live on like the third mall from the sun.”

—Bil Hicks, Dangerous

“Do a commercial and you’re off the artistic roll call, every word you say is suspect, and you’re a corporate whore. And yes I have been offered commercials and I turned them all down so I’m not jealous...You really got my act down good guys, that will be great. “When I’m done ranting about elite power that rules the planet under a totalitarian government that uses the media in order to keep people stupid, my throat gets parched. That’s why I drink ‘Orange Drink’”... Don’t you see how every word I said would be hollow and filled with nothing.”

—Bill Hicks, Rant In E Minor