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I prefer:

contemporary SY records [ ]

contemporary Starbucks coffee [x]

i like starbucks... i liked sonic youth (honestly i think i liked the idea of them more)... this is fine, but...

some article wrote:The concept is that artists, actors, designers and musicians – including Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Beck, Marc Jacobs, Portia de Rossi and Michelle Williams – will choose their favourite Sonic Youth track and write "a little thing" about what it means to them.

why? (other than being broke and the potential for free starbucks?... and by starbucks i do mean handjobs.)

c'mon, SY signed with geffen one hundred years ago. they played nearly all lollapaloozas and made a film about it. they made fake-patina-record covers-produced-in-china when most of you were still in the kindergarten. I bet they sold most of their records in walmarts.

It's about time for an Arrested Development movie.

unarmedman wrote:It's about time for an Arrested Development movie.

I challenge you to a game of horseshoes. A game of horseshoes!!!!!

unarmedman wrote:Maybe a more appropriate question is:

What career band isn't out there to make money?

It is possible to make money (and probably just as much money, I would argue) without allying yourself with douchebags. Nobody has any qualms about bands making money. It's the allying with douchebags that people dislike.

So the following question should be:

Why should Sonic Youth (or any career band) be any different?

We would like them more/dislike them less if they weren't allied with douchebags. That's about all there is to it.

steve wrote:If you are in the middle of bumfuck, egypt and your options are a gas station coffee or Starbucks, you'll soon appreciate the value of the Bucky pandemic.

In non-metropolitan Canada, for example, the options are Bucky, Tim Horton and draining your radiator into a thermos. Tim Horton (Canada's Number One Cup of Coffee!) is dead last in this run-off.

So there you have it. If this CD is sold in non-metroplitan areas (almost exclusively) it's probably not selling out. Else... yeah, fuck em.

Just kidding, I don't care what sonic youth does with starbucks. Tea is better then coffee anyways.

Adam CR wrote:I prefer:

contemporary SY records [ ]

contemporary Starbucks coffee [x]

I question you, sir!

Admittedly, I haven't heard any SY from the last 10 years, but nothing could be as rank as Starbucks coffee, could it? I mean forgetting the place itself and their business practices for a moment, that is a disgusting cup of coffee.

Or maybe the more recent SY albums are actually that bad

m.koren wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

John C3 wrote:If Ian Mackaye did a Starbucks advert would you still think he was cool? He's paid his dues, right?

Actually, my art school friend saw Ian in a D.C. Starbucks, and it broke his sweet, idealistic little straightedge heart. Poor guy.

Did your friend say what Ian was doing/drinking ?

probably downing some pills with a kahlua spiked double shot expresso while smoking a cigarette and eating a nice fat steak to satisfy the munchies

Dudley wrote:I mean forgetting the place itself and their business practices for a moment, that is a disgusting cup of coffee.

It is possible (easy!) to step into any Starbucks outlet and order a cup of perfectly acceptable, fresh, black filter coffee.

It is not possible to step into any record store and order 5 minutes of perfectly acceptable, fresh, Sonic Youth.

Furthermore, by choosing to purchase fair trade coffee from Starbucks, one is encouraging corporate involvement in fair trade organisations. This is a GOOD thing.

By choosing to purchase a Sonic Youth record, one is encouraging Sonic Youth. This is a BAD thing.

Finally, even if one is unwise enough to order a latte/CRAPpuccino from Starbucks, the most significant danger one immediately faces is a small blob of congealed milk/cocoa powder bobbing to it's tepid surface.

If one is unwise enough to order a contemporary Sonic Youth record, one is exposing oneself to the life-threatening danger that Kim Gordon will sing.

In summation, Starbucks > Sonic Youth.