I don't feel the need to separate anything; the political views are part of the experience for me.

A revolution is almost always a terrible idea, and I agree with next to nothing that RATM stands (or stood) for as regards political action. But when I listen to their music, I feel like getting a boom blaster, plastering a flag that says "guerilla radio" to it, and going around town barechested with a megaphone while I advocate a communist takeover. Perhaps I even imagine it joyfully. What I can't stand is when music feels fake, or clearly separated from the artist (the problem with RATM, amongst so many others, "selling out"? They're all filthy rich at this point, so how convincing now is their revolutionary spirit?)

It's play, which doesn't mean you shouldn't take it seriously. Burning churches is stupid, murder is evil, but it's part of Burzum's charm; the point is that - despite his edgelordness - he is far darker than most people mentally.

It extends to everything. It wouldn't suit South Park to have been made by modern liberals (and they never would have). I have no idea which artists I agree with politically - a point here and there - and that's all I need, because most political or philosophical aspects of music reduce to a simple point or emotion that I can recognize in myself; RATM's revolutionary mayhem or their anger at unfairness, South Park's cynical distance from society, even Burzum's embrace of darkness and spiritual isolation, Megadeth's "this is my life and it's none of your business" libertarianism.

To me, the stupidity begins when you're no longer playing and you let the musician actually tell you what to believe.