Yet another corporation peddling a potentially dangerous product is trying to exploit indie rock via a magazine insert. Mere days after Camel’s “Farm-gate,” facts have come to light about a four-postcard insert that Greyhound Buses included in this month’s issue of the electronic music magazine XLR8R. The cards, featuring likenesses of Dan Deacon, Wzt Hearts, Ruins, and a crowd surfer at a Team Robespierre concert, tout the Hound’s viability as travel conduit to indie rock shows. Interesting way of marketing an old product to a new audience, except for the fact that Greyhound never received permission from any of the artists to use their likenesses.

Deacon in particular has taken offense, posting messages on his Myspace account to the tune of “IN NO WAY DO I ENDORSE OR PROMOTE GREYHOUND BUSES” and recounting a checkered history with the company that includes late buses, lost luggage, and vitriol usually reserved for the I Love New York reunion show. As countless country songs have told us, hitchhiking is much cooler anyway. [Pitchfork]