> anti establishment artists are now shilling for the man
Yes I came to say the same thing.
I find the artist's behavior, and much of the media coverage of it, to be a bit like the whole "facebook whistleblower" thing. It's framed as an act of defiance, but it's actually the establishment pushing back against something that threatens them. I see this more and more, where the most mainstream and orthodox ideas pretend to be actually some principled stand against an imagined "establishment".