Five Corporations

yeah this is about 5 huge global companies buying everything up until they own everything. communication and pharmaceutical giants. just don't ask me to name them. :) its interesting these days the internet is like this too. Google fugazi and now the first results are always myspace, wikipedia, youtube, amazon and google shopping.

this song is truly rockin with the drums, great line: 'buy em up and shut em down then repeat in every town'

over time every mainstream label that was at one time somewhat "independent" merged into five different labels that now control everything you hear on they radio. they are warner, EMI, sony, universal, and bmg

this refers to the dominance of all major labels, and their tendency to "absorb" labels that are doing fairly well by merges, deals etc

interesting note: while this was written there were those five corperations. right now theres only four (yes four!) because sony merged with bmg. :O

I saw it as the development of small towns into one giant suburb that looks all the same by companies like wal-mart, but the music thing seems to make more sence

This could be about the 5 meat corporations that make up 17% of the GDP and sell 98% of all meat sold in the U.S. Mackaye is vegan, so I'm just assuming it's about these factory farming heartless profiteers.