Why is everybody so pissed about the U2 download from iTunes?

[Ulaven_Demorte]

"I got a Free sample of Tide detergent in the mail, so now I hate Tide."

Morons.

It's more like someone put Tide into every box of detergent I will ever own without asking me.

 

[pete]

It's more like someone put Tide into every box of detergent I will ever own without asking me.

your dramatic use of absolutes isn't really helping your argument, just fyi

 

[jomar]

Because everyone is over Bono, except Bono.

His blue sunglasses Nobel campaign was eye rolling cringe worthy.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

your dramatic use of absolutes isn't really helping your argument, just fyi

If I knew who you were I might give two shits about your opinion. But I don't, so fuck off and have a shit day.

 

[phrodeau]

I hate when I turn on a radio and they're playing that song I don't like. How can they be using my radio to play their lousy music without my permission?

 

[sigh]

I'm kinda with the "so what?" crowd. I listened to it, didn't like it, and likely won't ever listen to it again. My son thought it was cool to get something free so he burned it to CD, then added it to the wall-length shelves of his CD collection, most copied from selections from the local libraries. He'll never listen to it either.

We'll run out of storage space on his shelves looooooooong before either of our hard drives is filled.

I wish my life were so uncomplicated that this was worth the effort to get upset about.

 

[pete]

If I knew who you were I might give two shits about your opinion. But I don't, so fuck off and have a shit day.

<~~~~~ i'm this handsome bloke right over here.


but thanks for your kindness, the world truly is a brighter place because of you.

 

[fairyqueen]

I never realized so many people hated U2/Bono.

 

[pete]

I never realized so many people hated U2/Bono.

yeah but it's not true hatred.

it's more like.. how people hate when there's a stray black olive on their pepperoni pizza.

 

[sigh]

yeah but it's not true hatred.

it's more like.. how people hate when there's a stray black olive on their pepperoni pizza.

True hatred is a stray anchovy.

 

[pete]

True hatred is a stray anchovy.

yes!! because that nasty anchovy juice gets everywheres!

 

[Lancecastor]

It's more like someone put Tide into every box of detergent I will ever own without asking me.

I thought you said you don't use iTunes....so did the ghost of Steve Jobs sneak in and load your daughter's iPod or what?

 

[Queersetti]

Relax, it's just a new distribution model.

One that recognizes the digerati thinks everything online is Free.

This way, at least artists will get paid instead of having their work ripped (off).

And because there is very little under the sun that is truly new....it harkens to the days of artists relying on patrons to fund their works.

I like it.

And it's no different than a Free CD on the cover of NME or in a box of Count Chocula.

Actually, what I would like to see is a paradigm in which those who want to make a career out of playing music actually make their money by playing music for people.

 

[Queersetti]

so your righteous indignation stems from the business practices of the music industry?
srsly?

and the dozen or so ppl in my circle who've sqawked about this all got new iphones so i made the assumption, my bad.
even so, the point is valid. you don't want to download it, delete it. you bitstream a shit ton of music and some of it you don't want? delete that too. you buy a car and don't like the preset radio stations? change 'em.

if you don't look closely at what you're downloading, whose fault is that?

Wait. Are there people who aren't indignant about the practices of the music industry?

Wtf

 

[pete]

Actually, what I would like to see is a paradigm in which those who want to make a career out of playing music actually make their money by playing music for people.

yeah, cuz U2 hasn't done that, right? all those albums and tours in the 80's, 90's, 00's, that was all just a scam leading up to this itunes plan.

 

[tactful]

They should have installed

"The Bits of Lit Women", it would have been a better app.

 

[fairyqueen]

yeah, cuz U2 hasn't done that, right? all those albums and tours in the 80's, 90's, 00's, that was all just a scam leading up to this itunes plan.

Well said!!! I know they're not everyone's pint of Guinness but they've paid their dues. They're in the R&R Hall of Fame, that has to say something!

 

[sigh]

Actually, what I would like to see is a paradigm in which those who want to make a career out of playing music actually make their money by playing music for people.

I'd assumed this was a set-up for a tour but it doesn't look like they have anything in the works until maybe next summer, though. But you've gotta admit, they have played for a lot of people in the course of their career.

 

[Lancecastor]

Actually, what I would like to see is a paradigm in which those who want to make a career out of playing music actually make their money by playing music for people.

Why?

Now that everyone steals there music/thinks "all digital products should be free"...is a paid live performance the only "honorable" way for a musician to make money?

How antiquated.

 

[Queersetti]

yeah, cuz U2 hasn't done that, right? all those albums and tours in the 80's, 90's, 00's, that was all just a scam leading up to this itunes plan.

That's a complete non sequitur.

 

[Queersetti]

Why?

Now that everyone steals there music/thinks "all digital products should be free"...is a paid live performance the only "honorable" way for a musician to make money?

How antiquated.

Honor has nothing to do with it. It's a matter of aesthetics. I think we'd get a greater amount of higher quality music if the economic dynamics of the industry put more of a premium on performance skills and less on reliance on studio manipulation.

 

[Queersetti]

Well said!!! I know they're not everyone's pint of Guinness but they've paid their dues. They're in the R&R Hall of Fame, that has to say something!

It says that Jann Wenner thinks it would be cool to like them.

 

[Lancecastor]

Honor has nothing to do with it. It's a matter of aesthetics. I think we'd get a greater amount of higher quality music if the economic dynamics of the industry put more of a premium on performance skills and less on reliance on studio manipulation.

The Beatles were no great shit live....Trent Reznor's music is best heard recorded...Joni Mitchell always hated performing live...Sloan is terrible live...Boston never would have existed without a studio...the Beach Boys best works were all studio pieces.

It's simply not that simple.

 

[Queersetti]

I think that there is a lot of concern about computer privacy right now, and that for a lot of people, the U2 download has become a symbol of that. It becomes a stand in for all the other things that may be snaking their way onto our phones and computers that we neither want nor requested.

Personally, I just think it's obnoxious marketing. It's the digital version of a squeegee guys. Yeah, they aren't asking you for anything, but you know they expect something.

 

[phrodeau]

Honor has nothing to do with it. It's a matter of aesthetics. I think we'd get a greater amount of higher quality music if the economic dynamics of the industry put more of a premium on performance skills and less on reliance on studio manipulation.

Public taste drives the quality of performance. Conveying emotion is the paramount musical skill. All others are secondary these days.

So far, studios can't manipulate the emotional impact too much.