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I agree that a band like Sonic Youth have some sort of political relevance for other musicians in terms of how they operated throughout the years with the sort of music they play, save for some recent developments that I'm not sure about (the whole mp3 bonus thing seems rich when Thurston Moore on an interview posted on here says that he hates them, or something along that line). I get the impression that they overall managed pretty well, even though they didn't spell out a politcial agenda as such.
Bands shouldn't really take it in their hands to address issues where they ultimately have the last word on, unless they distill their content for creative consumption. It's great that they can be a vessel to channel the feelings of discontent generated by whatever affront is mounted on who and where, but really, if a clear separation of roles is kept in an order which clarifies better what the political is, and what the creative can actually achieve in order to represent, voluntarily or not, its momentum, there would be less confusion, and better music. Or something like that.
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