Article: Death Cab for Cutie aren't your ex, so quit acting like it

Eryn Green
University Wire
09-17-2004
(Daily Utah Chronicle) (U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY -- There was a point in time around Christmas of last year when I drew a line in the dirt and took a stand -- against Death Cab for Cutie.

It wasn't that Ben Gibbard, Death Cab front man and songwriter, didn't entice me with his devilishly catchy balladry.

It wasn't that Death Cab's ability to make me happy, while simultaneously deeply depressed, existed in stark moral opposition to my personal beliefs. Really, it wasn't even that I disliked Death Cab (I didn't, at all) -- it was just that I felt something needed to be done.

My intentions were noble: I was boycotting the Pacific-Northwestern's brand of soft, ...

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