boycott: the who, areosmith, led zepplin, motely crue, kiss, judas priest, twisted sister, and ronnie james dio. don't buy any more cd's or merchendise from these bands until they pull out from can support. i can see them forming a music against autism campaign. how sick.
I'm against CAN just as much as anybody else, if not more, but there's some damn good bands there. Led Zeppelin's one of my favorite bands, I'm not going to stop listening to that just for this. I understand your reasoning, but think about it, what's a boycott of these bands really going to accomplish aside from having to listen to other music? If everyone on this forum said that they weren't going to buy or listen to any of these bands for supporting CAN, the bands will just pass us off as people that simply don't like their music.
I doubt these bands really gave this much thought, it most likely came down to the manager saying "here''s a charity gig that will score us points with people by making us look compassionate".
Boycotts don't really accomplish much unless the companies affected actually lose enough money that they notice. If everybody on here boycotted all of these bands, they'd lose what, 1000 bucks? they wouldn't even notice that.
A more worthwhile solution would be to go to these band's websites and fan groups, join their forums, and explain why we're against this event, this would get the word out to a lot more people.