If you’re in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.
Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.
Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books. Which is bullshit if I pay for a book no way should they be allowed to add ads into my books.
Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books.
At least they aren’t putting Weezer songs in their books.
Back in my day you had to remove the Weezer from your Windows 95 install disc!
In addition to Buddy Holly, my windows 95 also had Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong by the Spin Doctors. What a time.
They should have topped it off with 500 miles, my dawdurrrr, and maybe throw in mr Jones just to really dial up the pain.
Celebrities shamelessly selling out and publicly writing blatant repetitive advertisement? How could they do such a thing?
Anyways, that movie, now also available on streaming services!
We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!
They’re indestructible because they are vegan too
Hopefully they remember that chicken parmesan isn’t vegan.
Does this sound made up you? Hard to swallow your favorite band could be so scummy?
Did you know Weezer made an NFT? Yeah, that’s who they are now folks.
I would be upset if I paid for an ad. I would probably stop being a fan.
I would buy drinks just to throw at them. Like a lot of drinks.
That’s just playing right into their hands.
Collect empties and fill them up in the toilets. Recycling!
The people on the Windows 95 CD are sell-outs?!
“Weezer is a shitty corporate sell-out band” hasn’t been breaking news in like three decades. Their music video for Buddy Holly came on the Windows 95 installation disc for God’s sake
That’s pretty sick actually
It was the only video you could watch without buffering for days with the shitty dial up internet of the time. OH OH AND YOU’RE MARY TYLER MOORE. Fucking kill me.
I was amazed that the Windows 95 stock Media Player could minimize video to a 32x32 icon at full speed! I played it on loop for hours.
What stage of capitalism is this?
I’m finding it more and more difficult to keep track these days.
It’s the acceptance stage.
You could tell they’d sold out to Audible when “Grapes of Wrath” came out.
This sounds like a scene from Idiocracy
“Hey, everybody! Thanks for coming out tonight to our concert presented by Amazon dot com’s Audible dot com. Audible - it’s got what brains crave.”
As a counter point to this guy saying “Get back to the place you were in when you loved music”.
Most artists are fucking miserable when they’re producing their greatest works, Rivers Cuomo is no exception.
Oh, good. So it’s not paid stupidity, it’s genuine stupidity.
It’s interesting. There are many songs from over the years about products the song writer likes.
I’m thinking about beers, and cars, and instruments, and various other things. Including games and movies and books.
It’s funny that once it’s a website, that crosses the line.
The Who did an entire album where they jokingly plugged products, including on the album cover.
It’s not the website part that I find stupid. It’s the advertising for free.
I also think that those things are stupid. Whatever company owns the product isn’t going to be happy if you take it for free, so don’t give that company something for free.
IMO there is no way a musician name drops a product without collecting a bag. The interview with Amazon would also have cost them money to make happen.
Weezer would need to be astonishingly naive to write the song before the agreement was reached with Amazon. Also other comments in this thread detail their past record of selling out.
I listen to quite a lot of hip-hop and there were a couple of years about a decade ago where almost every artist had a lyric about uber.
Also doesn’t seem like it was paid placement
I’m not so sure on that. At the very least they paid him for the interview there, and really I think they probably just made out that they didn’t find out beforehand.
It’s pretty ridiculous to think that a band that’s been in the business as long as Weezer has, signed to a major label like Atlantic Records, wouldn’t ask for permission to use someone else’s brand in one of their songs.
My friend went to a Weezer concert recently, he said there weren’t any ads pushed.
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