Pray for Infomation - Death Cab for Cutie? The Thermals?

Pray for Information?

Searching Google (is that redundant?) on Death Cab for Cutie I found this image of the band holding up a sign "PRAY FOR iNFORMATION" Which lead me to the following blog entry:

"Most of the signs, however, feature contemporary slogans--some familiar, all straightforward and others terrifically witty. Death Cab for Cutie did three signs for the shoot: "Speed the Collapse," "Dissolve the Senate" and, riffing off the band The Thermals, "Pray for Information." (A helpful sidebar explains the provenance of each slogan.)" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041018/frey


Link rot and the fact the auction is over means I will have to snoop around to discover what "Pray for information" means in this context. Why? Because popular culture informs directions culture is turning even as a hyperreference.

http://yahrah.blogspot.com/2006_05_11_yahrah_archive.html
My cultural informant is paz y amor - a teacher, he quotes the lyrics as:
"pray for a new age
pray for information
i can hope, see
even if i don't believe"

"pray for a new state
pray for communication
i can hope, see
even if i don't believe"

THEN the song tosses in this little paradox of a line.....
"and
i believe...i think.....i don't know"

Interesting mix of prayer, information, and belief. Followed up by a little Spy vs Spy image.

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/protestauction.html

Ok - it's a reference to Track 8, God and Country from The Thermal's "F****n A" album - Who are the Thermals?

The Thermals: Hutch Harris (vocals, guitar); Kathy Foster (bass instrument); Jordan Hudson (drums).Recording information: Avast Studios, Seattle, Washington (2004).
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2983208&title=Fuckin+A+%5BExplicit+Lyrics%5D+%5BDigipak%5D+*&artist=The+Thermals

For those of us living under rocks - and "Avoiding the Rush" Death Cab for Cutie are: Benjamin Gibbard, Nick Harmer, Jason McGerr and Chris Walla
http://www.barsuk.com/bands/deathcabforcutie