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Ok, joke s over... FUCK Sonic Youth.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:52 am
by daniel robert chapman_Archive
sleepkid wrote:(a) They're tying themselves into corporate greed. They already have enough money, but they want more, and so they're gonna get it from Starbucks.
Have we got a dollar figure on this? (I broadly agree with your post, you just happened to mention this most recently). I just don't see a massive return on this for anyone involved. Starbucks get the 'cool' factor of associating with someone that isn't Paul McCartney; Thurston Moore sounds amused by the whole thing. But a big earner? How many of these things do Starbucks think they'll sell? The price-point has to be low - it's a fucking Sonic Youth compilation, for fuck's sake - and I can't see it outselling Starbucks' own hot muffins. An exclusive track? Yeah, that'll be interesting enough to download and never listen to again.
The only transaction I can really see here is a somewhat sucky exchange of cred points. Financial gain? They'll be fucking lucky.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:56 am
by Minotaur029_Archive
DrAwkward wrote:Minotaur029 wrote:DrAwkward wrote:Minotaur029 wrote:My question has always been...what are the "ideal" jobs for a touring musician? How do you find a job with the appropriate level of flexibility?
What pays the bills in Chicago...and affords you an opportunity to get out on the road when need be?
Outside of basically owning your own business, i'm not sure this is possible anywhere. I'd love to hear some options, though. How many musicians on this forum have been able to go on tour for over a month straight on a regular basis and keep their job? Anyone?
Well, what do
you do? It seems like you tour often enough.
I work for a bank in downtown Milwaukee that gives me the standard two weeks paid vacation, but they are also nice enough to have let me go over that allotment and take a few days of unpaid leave each year i've worked here. Every day of vacation i hve pretty much gets eaten up by touring, and i haven't been on any other kind of vacation since the '03/'04 New Year. (Edit Note: I'm pretty sure if i took a month or two of unpaid leave per year, i'd be fired.)
We tour roughly 2-3 weeks per year, and i've always regretted that there wasn't a time in my life where i lived in squalor in a run-down punk house in Riverwest for $100/mo rent (because of sharing the house with 8 other people) in order to tour for 5 months out of the year in my early 20s. Something about that seems sort of romantic in a really twisted sense.
Thanks very much. Anyone else?
What neighborhoods (if any) are there in Chicago where the "live in squalor::not getting beaten or killed" ratio is most favorable? The preceeding grammar confused my brain.
Ok, joke s over... FUCK Sonic Youth.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:57 am
by kerble_Archive
Minotaur, I posted a link to a relevant thread on the last page.
take the discussion there.
Ok, joke s over... FUCK Sonic Youth.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:57 am
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Ok, joke s over... FUCK Sonic Youth.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:04 am
by Minotaur029_Archive
kerble wrote:Minotaur, I posted a link to a relevant thread on the last page.
take the discussion there.
Found it. Much obliged.
Ok, joke s over... FUCK Sonic Youth.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:09 am
by El Protoolio_Archive
Minotaur029 wrote:All this stuff though...about SY not making any good music for the last 20 years...(I've been reading that on this board ALL the time)...that's just bullshit. They made a lot of crap, but they also released some good albums...however, I don't think that most of the Sonic Youth albums from the last twenty years will have staying power.
I like their albums once they settled in with Jim O'Rourke. Murray Street and Sonic Nurse do "it" for me.
Well that sure is your opinion. For me I have liked some songs but the only full albums I've enjoyed since Daydream Nation are Experimental Jet Set and A Thousand Leaves.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:11 am
by Flaneur_Archive
sleepkid wrote:People who have never heard Sonic Youth (say, classical musicians, russian oil barons, and african tribesmen) are forced to listen to the entire canon over several weeks and pick one song and explain why they like it.
I like this idea.
And replacing Ella and Norah with "Tom Violence" for a few weeks will be a real conversation-starter for coffee-buying singles, which will lead to many happy unions worldwide that would not otherwise happen.
Colonel Panic wrote:Personally, I prefer Dunkin' Donuts' coffee to Starbucks, and they're the world's largest vendor of single cups of coffee, selling 2.8 million cups per day... that's over 32 cups per second for every second in every day. Would it be as inappropriate for a band to partner with Dunkin' Donuts?
Far, far, far more so, because of the second of those three partners in this press release.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:15 am
by John W_Archive
Silver Jews and Krispy Kreme?
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:18 am
by gio_Archive
John W. wrote:Silver Jews and Krispy Kreme?
I think Throbbing Gristle is a better match for Krispy Kreme.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:19 am
by kerble_Archive
Dianogah gave us all krispy kreme donuts at the last lounge ax show.
