How to be a Legend

Well even I’ve been notified of the news regarding rage against the machine beating x factor to christmas number one. I’m not exactly a carer of that title but I have to say I’m very confused about what’s actually happened here.
The basic story is that a guy didn’t like xfactor winning the spot past 4 years. So made a facebook group to get a RATM song number one. Which got the support the alternatey community and its now got it.
I really don’t actually see this as much of a victory for individuality though. I mean I don’t like xfactor, don’t watch it, know little about it, don’t know the names of the people in it apart from cowell. I do know that it does gear itself up to get christmas spot.

Let’s review. Its a contest that a talented and likely hard working young person wins through a combination of worthy factors to achieve their dream. That’s the person that loses out by not getting number one, its hardly hitting cowell hard in the pocket is it.
Each person who bought the record did so through personal choice because they liked the music. No one was made to it was a series of individual choices.
Xfactor is very successful at what it does.

So in retaliation for the crime of being successful, because by f*ck we do all hate winners don’t we. “They’re good at what they do… BOOOOOO!”
The alternative community got together and bought the RATM song. Its again a series of individual choices to do so, but in this case its motivated because you disliked other peoples choices. I guess that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth because if left alone it says “don’t really care, that’s not my kind of music” but now it looks like the care was there but you simply got beat every year until this point.

To me it seems petty and really self defeating. “We’re all individual and to prove it we’re going to buy the same song” .

I kinda see what was tried to do, I just don’t really think bandwagonism is very metal so regardless of number one winning, its non legendary behaviour.

(Now if only it had been done purely for The Lulz)