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This is kinda deep for me. Artists are often view things a lil’ more different than others. Should this throw off their moral compass, no. But, what it all boilds down to is these folks’ values don’t match your own. It’s up to you who you support and who you don’t. To be honest, I think if we sÞart delving deeper into these peoples’ personal lives we’ll miss out on a whole lot of quality entertainment.
For example, everybody feels some kinda way about R. Kelly and his affinity for young girls. If you don’t support him, you should also look to stop listening to
Marvin Gaye, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and so many others who took child brides.
I just think this is a slippery slope here and we’ll end up being against more artists than we support.
P.S. Your hair alone makes you the next top Gay icon.

With respect to Kate Moss and Mr. Doherty, I am going to have to disagree with you. Admittedly, I am biased because I am a fan of Pete Doherty. That being said, addiction is such a powerful disease that I think it is harsh to judge people who have addictions with the same moral compass that you would use on those who do not. It quite literally takes over a person’s life and many addicts are not willing participants, it is just the way they are wired.

Moreover, once a person achieves fame, I cease to buy their stuff based upon the feeling that they need support for their craft because most likely they are rich already. I only buy their stuff if I feel it adds value to my own life.

And yeah, I have never shopped in Urban Outfitters before, and there’s no fucking way I will now.

(Grrrr! I forgot to spell check and ruined my whole point… I meant to write “how” not “hoe” but now I’m wondering– was it a case of having too small a keyboard on this netbook and hitting the E instead of the W, or was it a Freudian slip?)

I’ve never really liked Kate Moss, but her choices in recent years have made me dislike her even more and as such I try not to have anything to do with her including her Topshop range, her perfumes and the things she advertises. It isn’t because she is an addict, after all I am not one to cast the first stone when it comes to the murky world of addiction, but because she seems almost proud to be living this hippy carefree lifestyle seemingly forgetting that she has a child. I appreciate that a lot goes on behind closed doors and that she might be the sweetest kindest mother going, but similarly things go on behind closed doors for the negative as well as the positive and when she seems happy to have people like Pete Doherty in her life well who knows what occurs in private. I was incensed at her latest mantra ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’, because saying that is akin to lighting the blue touchpaper for some of the image obsessed, borderline unhealthy teens and tweens who worship the ground she walks on. I’m not blaming the rise in teenage eating disorders on Kate Moss or all the other celebrities who have unhealthy ideals about what is normal and beautiful but the very fact that it is a bastardised version of an AA/OA/NA slogan should tell us a lot about La Moss and her way of life.

It’s not just Kate Moss who could do with a lesson in parenting and responsible choices, Katie Price, Kerry Katona, all those mothers and fathers who whore their children out to the public without so much as a second thought. They’re the people I really abhor and that is why I avoid their products like the plague.

I wasn’t aware of the background of Urban Outfitters – I’ve never shopped there before but I sure as heck won’t shop there now.

I guess I fall in with Jaded and Smarty’s line of thought. That being said, I was more inclined bail on Ms. Moss when she was dating Doherty than for either the coke sniffing or anorexia promoting offenses. Drug abuse and eating disorder are illnesses – there’s no excuse for allowing Pete Doherty into your life.

not a fan of Kate either. Forgetting that she would advertise the opening of an envelope – oh wait I think she does that too – she recently declared that, in her opinion, it was better to starve your self and be skinny than to eat. What type of role model is that – a crack sniffing annorexic whore (that actually sounds nastier than I intended but hey…). But it is not just Kate, I will now boycott Anthrpologie when I am in the US, never liked Pete anyway so mute point, and wont shop at a number of other companies that are lucky enough to remain nameless…
Spinning the debate around, I also find that I buy certain products, even if they are more expensive, if I agree with the company’s social/ethical policies – like MAC makeup and the £100m they have raised for AIDS etc.
And that is my two cents for the day

F$%K IT – Hmm, I think you and I are quite alike – especially on those people just mentioned, morally, I just can’t support it.

SMARTY – I agree with you. It gets murky. Everyone has a story and if we were to really delve deep, we wouldn’t be able to listen to or watch anything!

TYRONE – Yeah, really depends where your moral compass lies.

SEAN – Yeah, you’re right. I don’t mean to judge Ms Moss for her addiction issues per say. I guess my stance falls more with the companies who re-hired her to front their campaigns and profited off the mess her life has become. I don’t want my money to go towards that. I’d rather see her stay out of the public eye and sort her life out, get the help she needs. And *high five* for that Urban Outfitters comment.

JADED – I hear you and I think that is an important distinction: artist vs company. But again, I do think it boils down to personal experience and where your moral compass is.

LONG TALL ALLY – I couldn’t agree with you more on the Kate Moss front.

DAVID – Thanks! And that kind of is the way I think about it sometimes. If my friend were acting this way, would I tell them about themselves and disassociate myself from them for a while? Probably. When it comes to where my money goes, I think I do tend to think the same way, however right or wrong that may be.

NICOLE – Amen sister!

ONDO LADY – I agree, but I judge him just as harshly as her!

EM – I totally agree. I do the same (buying products because I like the company’s ethics). I find I am more likely to go out and buy something by Dove since they started their whole ‘natural beauty’ campaign and show women as they really are. That’s something I respect and am OK putting my money towards.

AHONUI – I know, it’s tough to know where to draw the line. I’m sure there’s some people who I support that others wouldn’t and vice versa. It’s a tough one!