Compiling an album is one thing, going with Armani and Coca is another. I love ISOS4 and ISOS6.
I bash him for another reason, and i'll keep on doing it till i die.
Tiesto can
easily gather
A LOT of people at his events without Coca-Cola, Armani, Microsoft, Cortina or Abu Mustafa Hot-Dogs, and then give the money made at the event to charity funds. He has my respect for being active with charities. But i just hate this idea that he, basically as an artist and DJ, collaborates with purely business oriented firms. Music industry is also a business, but different from the one where those firms operate. If you start treating music tracks/songs like digital cameras (like products) then you're destroying the purpose and values of music. That's actually why i don't like the (sad) fact that they all call themselves as
producers. I actually didn't see when this trend started. Before they were artists... (respect to AIRWAVE for example, and Mike Foyle, for example, cuz he plays on piano too, or Galen Behr for being a violinist)
When Armin will start doing similar things to a point that it can be easily noticed then i'll also start bashing, no worries about it.
People who LOVE music, who have it in their blood and genes, have my admiration and respect more than those who have brains made of $$$.
And bashing Tiesto has nothing to do with being a Trance guru or not. I have some good knowledge in this music but never considered myself as a guru.
Btw, for Olympics 2004, i didn't know that he did the anthem

but when i found out i also attacked that (but wasn't on TH at that time).