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Outrageous!! Check out local radio contest for 6/16 Columbia tickets
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Greenville's local radio station is holding a contest for free PJ tickets to the Columbia show. See the link above for the "official" advertisement where they promote the contest next to a picture of Pearl Jam, as if this were somehow approved by the band. Here are the rules from the Myspace Bulletin board:
""WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE HOTTEST HANDICAPPED GIRL
In the latest installment of our HOTTEST contests, we have announced our latest - THE HOTTEST HANDICAPPED GIRL! Are you handicapped? Do you think you're hot? Then we want you! And if you win you'll get tickets to see PEARL JAM on June 16th in Columbia. If you want to participate and can be in studio on Friday JUNE 14th, please email us your name, a current photo, your handicap, and your daytime number to TheRiseGuys@aol.com ASAP!
Tickle it guys!
Skip & Matt""
>>>>I think this is so wrong in so many ways, and this doesn't seem to me like a message Pearl Jam would want to be associated with. What gives these guys the right to tie PJ to such a superficial and discriminating contest? Shame on THE RISE GUYS!
Greenville's local radio station is holding a contest for free PJ tickets to the Columbia show. See the link above for the "official" advertisement where they promote the contest next to a picture of Pearl Jam, as if this were somehow approved by the band. Here are the rules from the Myspace Bulletin board:
""WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE HOTTEST HANDICAPPED GIRL
In the latest installment of our HOTTEST contests, we have announced our latest - THE HOTTEST HANDICAPPED GIRL! Are you handicapped? Do you think you're hot? Then we want you! And if you win you'll get tickets to see PEARL JAM on June 16th in Columbia. If you want to participate and can be in studio on Friday JUNE 14th, please email us your name, a current photo, your handicap, and your daytime number to TheRiseGuys@aol.com ASAP!
Tickle it guys!
Skip & Matt""
>>>>I think this is so wrong in so many ways, and this doesn't seem to me like a message Pearl Jam would want to be associated with. What gives these guys the right to tie PJ to such a superficial and discriminating contest? Shame on THE RISE GUYS!
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Its not wrong if the girls "volunteer". Just my opinion.
I agree with this. If a girl wants to do it, who are you to say that she is wrong and that the contest is outrageous? If I was handicapped, I would be all over this opportunity.
Meh.
Yep just a Stern rip off....
but its damn funny.
Please it won't be tasteful at all thats what will make it funny.
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The radio station is using PJ as bait! He's golden!
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I'm not saying the girl would be wrong, I just don't think the band would support such a contest.
period.
wow, uptight much
it's a silly contest. its not like they want to do a contest thats like RETARD WITH THE LOWEST IQ GETS TICKETS! people need to lighten up. so handicapped people get a chance to score tickets, what's wrong with that? if i was handicapped i'd be all up in this!
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It makes them feel happy... Moreover, IMPORTANT. If the radio station is using the contest to straight up make fun of handicapped people, then, yes its wrong. But who does that?
I bet this ends soon ...the pic with the "contest" seems to violate a TM ?
I am sure legally this wont last
Eddie has supported Bridge school for the last decade and I am sure would not find this funny.
(I am sure Uncle Neil would feel the same)
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the only way this contest could even be close to okay is if the people holding the contest are all handicapped themselves.
saying that if a woman chooses to participate, then there is nothing wrong is being overly deterministic.
perhaps we should not assert that the participation of people in a contest legitimizes it, but question why a contest like this even exists for people to participate in.
This is stupid and both very tasteless but hey... some girl is gonna be one lucky lady...
I really don't understand why you are so pissed?
Linking PJ to it? they are giving away radio stations PJ tkts (all radio stations have them) ... a radio station tkt giveaway in no way links the band (any band) to the terms of their contest...
and guess what? when you are handicapped and on a wheelchair when radio stations give tkts away you dont have a chance either, well you do but then what the heck do you do with mid-row tkts on a wheelchair?
Men have always categorize girls deciphering "hot or not"!!!
And the truth is, that if you are talking about appearances there are girls that are hot and there are girls that are definately NOT!
I think you are overreacting! :rolleyes:
It's a radio contest... why are you people gettin' your panties in a bunch about this?
Let's leave the handicapped part out, and just the hot part in... there is a gazillion contests on TV, radio and etc that reward people for looks, what's the big deal about this one, it bothers you because they are PJ tkts?
What if the radio stations has handicapped seats only, you know those big boxes where you can actually fit a wheelchair?
Unless they are making fun of people who are handicapped in the process then I think you guys need to lighten up!
My panties aren't in a bunch. I'm just offering my opinion. I think it's wrong, but I'm certainly not overly concerned about it. Plus, it's in uhhh...the South, so who even gives a shit
The radio station doesn't need the bands approval to give those tkts away those are tickets given to the radio stations by the concert promoters.
If anything I guess the band or the 10C could ask for the pic to be taken down at best.
Radio stations have contests with band tkts left and right, I've seen contests for who has the biggest boobs, the hottest looking MILF to win concert tkts...
If there are contest for girl that look hot and no one seems to care why is there a difference in between contests for handicapped girls that look hot? You guys are making it of a discriminatory nature by being so pissed about it... IMO
Im not saying it's right.... I don't give a shit either way... to have concerts like that you have to also have people willing to participate...
my point is that if they had offered tkt to the hottest looking cowgirl this probably wouldn't even made it to the pit, BUT because they are offering it to handicapped girls then it does.... sometimes people themselves by being so pissed at stuff are the ones who give things a discriminatory nature...
Do you think it's possible that the station has tickets that are in wheelchair seating? Although it doesn't specify that that has to be your handicap, so I don't know.
So, if they didn't get permission this contest will be pulled
But, if they did, then the band knows and the contest is full-on
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it doesn't specify. so basically anyone from the mentally retarded to the blind could enter.
The one thing I can agree with is that the picture may have been used w/out permission, I don't know exactly know these things work...unless someone works in a radio station and can chime in ...
Im thinking for example Clear Channel who has the control pretty much every freaking venue and radio station in this country, when they give out the tkts to the radio stations for promotional purposes.. is that on the contracts with the bands?
Are the bands signing an agreement with the concert promoters that radio stations can have contests with their tkts and use their likeness?.... Im sure that big tour contracts have A LOT of fine print and clauses that we have no clue about, I have a hard time believing that every radio station including my local radio station whose also giving tkts away take the chance of a lawsuit by using photos with no permission...
and my BIGGEST point here I guess is:
to have contests like this you need people to participate, all you have to do is check this people's myspace page http://www.myspace.com/theriseguys and take from there the type of listeners they have...the only thing I would consider wrong is if they are using this contest as a humiliating tool.... and that would be with anything handicapped or not... if there isn't any humiliation involved I don't see why handicapped people can not have contest were only they qualify ....