This argument will never cease because there are people out there who are only about getting free music, and then the people who try and support their favorite artist, regardless of whether or not the song it is up against is 10x better.
As far as I understood, Andy made the thread reminding people that this contest is going on, and stated the several OCR artist who are in the contest. He said nothing of VOTING for them. So it's up to the listener to decide, which goes along with the first sentence.
Also, I saw the OurStage debate thread of '08.