Talk:OXES

This article was nominated for deletion on May 28, 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

(h)O(a)XES

Look,
The Arab On Radar thing was a hoax.

The Old Navy thing was a hoax.

The monolith thing and Hendrix birthday things sound hoax-y, but are simple and ho-hum enough that they might be true.

I'm all in favor of cute pranks/ media manipulation... (OXES borrow heavily the band Negativland, particularly Negativland's infamous Helter Stupid stunt, in this respect. And from the band The KLF to an even greater extent, particularly their money-burning stunt.) ...But Wikipedia should not be used as a means to propagate blatant hoaxes like these. Does anyone really believe a mega-corporation like Old Navy would do what this article states it did? Come on, people. This band is notorious for its obsession with self-promotion via hoaxes (to make up for its rudimentary musical prowess), as the mentions of Luther Blissett and Lettrism indicate. I would bet my firstborn that OXES picked that band name because its letters are found in the word "hoaxes."

I just think this article needs a big reality check, that's all. But for now I'm content to just play the spoiler in this little Talk page, while letting the ruse continue in the main article. Music should be Dadaist and fun at times.

By the way, the "protest" cover photo of their album entitled OXXXES is... yes, a hoax. Chris77xyz 08:11, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So because you don't like OXES what? What is a "big reality check"? Simply because they've propagated hoaxes in addition to putting out records does this make them less worthy of an article? This sounds more personal than it should. I don't really know where its coming from actually. I'm all for indie-rock "my tastes are the best tastes cause they're my tastes" but lets save that for message boards and the like. By the way if you'd like to check out a video of someone questioning an innocent Old Navy employee about the shirt they're selling from OXES you can go here [1]. In addition as the article cited the papers were drawn. Did they make fun of you once or something? 65.60.208.12 22:41, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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