I really don't think this song is intended to be political at all. Rather, it's an indictment of the poor state of modern music. The whole thing is related to some ideas Efrim wrote about in an essay a few years back, which I'd strongly recommend reading: http://www.fishpiss.com/archives/195
In this song, "they" are not big business or capitalists or anything related to that, but present-day Pitchfork-reading hipsters and the (mostly) paint-by-numbers indie bands they worship.
I really don't think this song is intended to be political at all. Rather, it's an indictment of the poor state of modern music. The whole thing is related to some ideas Efrim wrote about in an essay a few years back, which I'd strongly recommend reading: http://www.fishpiss.com/archives/195
In this song, "they" are not big business or capitalists or anything related to that, but present-day Pitchfork-reading hipsters and the (mostly) paint-by-numbers indie bands they worship.