Austin Sound

Remember back in the day when we used to get on artists for doing commercials? “Sellout!” we’d vehemently yell at them, shilling for Volkswagon or Victoria’s Secret (who wouldn’t shill for Victoria’s Secret, though, really!?), and then write them off because clearly they have gotten too uppity chasing after the big bucks and deserted us and our precious indie devotion that is determined to keep them poor and to ourselves. Man, how times have changed, probably because we started downloading music and realized we’re part of the problem. It’s like White Guilt, but with internet access. So to help alleviate our culpability in the downfall of the music industry, we are more than happy to support those efforts by companies that want to pay out nice chunks of change to artists for doing what they do (well, kinda what they do, anyway). Which brings us to the Gatti’s Pizza Jingle contest and their $10,000 grand prize. We told you about this back when it launched, so stop whining, hipster! The fine folks at Gatti’s (local, ya know) have whittled down their submissions for a new jingle to five finalists, thanks to a pretty impressive panel of judges that included Marcia Ball and Ruben Ramos. Now it’s up to you to decide you gets the money! Check out the finalists and vote here. They’re all Austinites, so no homer shortcuts. We would probably vote for the Joel Calvin’s sexy-time theme, but honestly the whole food/sex combo kinda makes us nauseous. But decide for yourself, pervs.