So for the 20 people that still play Guitar Hero over Rock Band, it was pretty big news that Kurt Cobain was going to be included as an unlockable character in Rock Band 5. I guess it was also pretty big news to Courtney Love. She rocked out on her twitter this week with the following;
"not in twenty JILLION years would i EVER have allowed this and this islethal."
"we get NO money for this, travesty, Frances gets NO money for the rape."
~ tmz.com
...so she never would have allowed it, but the real travesty is that her daughter isn't getting paid? And as far as "the rape" goes, I'm pretty sure Kurt wrote a song titled "Rape Me", so really wasn't he kinda asking for it?
But wait there's more, Courtney wasn't the only one chiming in on this. The other boys from Nirvana released a statement (I'm guessing not via twitter. You can tell by the lack of the word rape).
"While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character," they said. "This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in 're-locking' Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future."
~ yahoo news
There's a line there that I feel bears repeating. "This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants". Oh sweet Moses! What kind of anarchy is this!? If you start letting players use a character with any song they want, where's it end? Before you know it Obama is killing your grandma via death panel.
Oh yeah, it should be noted that Acitivision acquired the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Love but I don't think they twittered about it. I'm pretty sure it doesn't legally count.
