Conservative Pink Floyd “Fans” Embarrass Themselves Mistaking Logo For Pride Statement

Yesterday, Pink Floyd announced the 50th-anniversary box set commemorating their legendary 1973 album, The Dark Side Of The Moon, after teasing something Dark Side-related on social media this week. The re-release will be out on 24 March.

The box set is pretty epic. It contains the original album remastered by James Guthrie on both CD (gatefold sleeve with 12-page booklet) and vinyl (gatefold sleeve with original posters and stickers). It also features Blu-Ray discs and DVDs for audiophiles with Surround Sound, DTS, Dolby Atmos, and more. 

There are also two books: a 160-page hardcover book with rare black and white photographs from the 1973 & 1974 tours in the UK and US, with the band photographed by Peter Christopherson, Jill Furmanovsky, Aubrey Powell, and Storm Thorgerson, as well as a 76-page music book that's a songbook of the entire album. 

However, the excitement is somewhat tainted by fans who mistook the band's new Facebook profile picture for a pride statement. The Dark Side Of The Moon's iconic album art is a prism with a beam of light passing through it on the left side, and on the right, a rainbow beam shoots out. That album art has existed since 1973. Pink Floyd have changed their profile picture to a new logo: a prism with "50" inside, with the rainbow beam appearing inside the zero.

Some fans, who you wonder if they've ever listened to Pink Floyd or looked at the album cover before, responded like this: "Sickening. I used to listen for the music. But I'm done now. Gay propaganda being put into everything." Another wrote, "Just another band pandering. Thier fame and amazing soul changing music can't save them from being in the 'woke' crowd. Unsubscribe". Most of the comments have since been deleted after other fans point out their error, reminding them to look at the cover and actually listen to Pink Floyd and what they stand for.

Other fans posted photos from a Roger Waters concert, where screens contained the message "TRANS RIGHTS," indicating that members of Pink Floyd have always stood up for progressive causes. "The prism already had a rainbow, and you'd be a fake fan to say Pink Floyd hasn't always accepted queer folks. The Wall was pretty clear that homophobia is vile," a fan wrote. Another said, "Brain Damage is the PERFECT song for people in this thread." 

For the first time, fans can also listen to THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON LIVE AT WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL, LONDON, 1974 on vinyl, but that has to be pre-ordered separately from the box set.

For replica collectors, the Dark Side Of The Moon box set also has two replicas of the 7" singles of Money with Any Colour You Like and Us And Them with Time. Pre-order the box set and check out other items here.