THIS IS SOMETHING:
There were only about 4 people I didn’t recognize.
FOR THE LOVE OF PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM: This makes me very nervous.
I KNOW: You know all about this already, but for someone who doesn’t have cable, and hasn’t seen a single one of their iconic shows, I can’t wait.
HEY ALANIS! Now this is ironic.
WAIT, WHAT? Is this actual bona fide sort of good news story about the environment?
SLITTEN?
SIGN OF THE TIMES? This is all kinds of unfortunate. (Editor’s note) There is so much I am not going to say. But while we are on the topic, this mortician has a few words for us.
A WHOLE WIDE WORLD FULL OF…nope. Also, nyet. Oh hells nein! Ugh, non.
THE SIDE EYE: That is precisely what this is getting at the moment. Am I overthinking it? No?
NIGHT FRIGHT?
SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Not to cast too wide a net here, and this certainly has nothing to do with you, but a whole generation which has grown up downloading music from the interwebs from places like Pirate Bay or other torrent sites get righteously cheesed off when they’re gifted a new release from one of the biggest bands ever. Oy. That Bono felt he had to do this just rubs me the wrong way, but I like how he handled it. What you probably haven’t heard is that 81 million people actually downloaded the music (because you had to do that to get it).
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL: I always did like librarians. (Editor’s note part II: Some are better than others)
NO BILLS BILLS BILLS? So it’s not all about the benjamins? We are getting more and more options for paying for our things.
GOT WOOD? This might help.
INCOMING!
Official Dossier contributor Eric H sent me a link for this just as I was getting the information on this. His reaction pretty much sums up my feelings: woot!
Need something else to read?
- I’m new to Monk Straps, so this has served me well.
- This is either good news or bad news.
- Always looks good. Unless you’re eating chips & salsa, and you’re clumsy.
Tim Johnstone is Dappered’s music correspondent as well as our resident gatherer of all things interwebs related. He doesn’t really hate people. Mostly.
As a relatively heavily tattooed guy, the preservation article is fascinating.
On the one hand, the world doesn’t really need a bunch of pop stars chewing the scenery in an overwrought (and necessarily subpar) cover of one of the most beautiful songs ever made. On the other, it’s always nice to see Stevie Wonder and anything that gets Brian Wilson out of the house is a good thing. Plus, it inspired me to go back and listen to the original, so all in all this made my day a little better, I suppose.
GET OFF MY LAWN
Exactly. Dad-blamed whippersnappers…
i never understood the uber-backlash behind U2’s album. i’m not saying you have to like it. or even feel grateful for something you didn’t ask for. but the supposed anger? i bet if they mailed out 200 million free CD’s, no one would’ve been angry about it.
Good call on the method of delivery. Internet = easy access to bitching. If it was sent in the mail, what are people going to do? Meet up at the mailboxes and just start whining?
Offering an album for free to download = awesome
Having your computer automatically download an album you don’t want = crap
Doesn’t matter if it’s rock, country, rap, or whatever. If it’s not your kind of music, why would you want it in your library? Bono coming out saying how he thought everyone would have loved to hear their music came off as pompous to me.
A free U2 album 20 years ago? Sure. Today? Ugh. No thanks.
Exactly. Plus with a CD it would have gone in the recycling bin without a second thought. 🙂
I just hated that it showed up on my iphone and was IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE. That they had to create a special script for people that didn’t like it should make it clear why people weren’t pleased.
To give you a deeper explanation: My iphone playlist gets listened to every day. Music, for lack of a better word, is my religion. Thus, to have a band I really don’t like, or any band for that matter, suddenly squat without warning or relent on what I consider holy ground is something that justifiably pisses me off.
My computer didn’t automatically download it. It was available to me to download from the cloud, but it wasn’t on my computer.
Unaware that that was the case. It was in the cloud for me. Never downloaded it. And with all due respect… religion? Holy ground? I mean, the things we get pissed off about is a little strange. Took me two clicks to just delete it from my computer (because I, did in fact, actively download it) and then even “hide it in the cloud”
“…it’s always nice to see Stevie Wonder.”
Boy, I want to put a ruthless comma in there.
“I mean, the things we get pissed off about is a little strange.”
First world problems?