So, I was at Starbucks the other day (dreadfully I might add, but there's gotta be some kinda drug they put in their coffee...) and I saw Pearl Jam for sale at the cash register. Now, I'm all for the band trying to get their message across through a variety of sources (SNL, Letterman, Life Wasted Music Video etc...) but seeing their album at Starbucks??!! -- Just doesn't sit right with me. This seems like something they never would have stood for 3 years ago.
Anyone agree? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
we already had a thread on this that got locked when wackiness ensued. Search for sell-out and bring this up there if you want to talk about it
_________________ "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."--FDR
since the current starbucks thread is locked. i would just like to ask these people if they think pearl jam has a personal relationship with each chain that sells their music. do you think they meet with sam walton and make a deal with him so that they put a display of their cd in a prime area? no, and they don't get to chose if starbucks or anyone else sells their records. their music is distributed just like u2, bruce springsteen, michael jackson, and a bunch of other genres of music good, bad, and shitty. what do you want them to do, go to each of the 100,000 starbucks and buy each album so that they can't sell it anymore? cause that's what they would have to do. i'm sure eddie vedder pulled a kramer and got free coffee for life in exchange for letting starbucks sell their records. he walks in and says don't give me dirty looks when i ask for my double latte, i made a deal.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
I don't know if an artist has ever pulled their music out of Wal-Mart or Starbucks, or if they could. Sometimes Wal-Mart will make demands of an artist and by not complying the artist doesn't get carried by Wal-Mart.
But hey, even if you were selling a book entitled Wal-Mart is a Fucking Homo, and Wal-Mart wanted to carry it (as written), why would you take action to get it pulled off the shelves?
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Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
again, please bring this up in the sell-out thread if it's something you want to talk about.
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