and madcrappie is syd???am i correct? yea, indeed im deirdre, just felt like a change for a min,,then...changed my mind again..and became didge. hoping your well darlin! and joshua tree!!
and i aint carin about what theyre doin for the 3rd world,.or wheter ther sellouts or not.-im talkin about their music. which, is pretty darn good
Well, no one said they were the "saviors" of it, but they've done a hell of a lot more for the poor than 99.9% of all politicians (not that that's saying much) and anything at all is better than nothing. And just how are they corporate sell outs?
yeah yeah yeah! what she said man! uhhh...wait a second....they kinda did sell out... i mean not in britney spears sort of way but their last album was terribly commercial... ahhhh but who cares they still fuckin' rock. anyone heard All Because of You yet??? it's new. it "leaked". so if u haven't heard it yet dl it from kazaa or whatever. its pretty funny actually.
How are U2 corporate sellouts? To give but one example. U2, the supposed band of integrity and protest, recently decided to screw over independent record retailers, by signing an exclusive contract with Best Buy, the 1,900-store consumer electronics and appliance monolith. According to the terms of the agreement, Best Buy would have a two-week exclusive to sell a brand new U2 live DVD for $18 and also get the rights to sell an out-of-print U2 Greatest Hits Album. In exchange Best Buy will help to promote a broadcast of the concert on DirectTV's Freeview Event series for paying customers and spend up to $10 million promoting U2 through transit bus and newspaper advertising. So while Bono was all over CNN talking about helping to restore the economies in Africa, he and his mates had already screwed thousands of small music retailers who would lose revenue and customers to a large chain that is expected to rack up $20 billion in 2002. In 2000, Best Buy bought out the Musicland Chain, which runs Sam Goody in the States, and more recently bought the 83-store Future Shop chain in Canada. For all intents and purposes, they are quickly becoming the Starbucks of the consumer electronics world - a store in every town, sometimes even two or three if necessary. To make matters worse, Best Buy expanded in the music distribution business by creating Redline Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary that acts like any other record label. One catch, by silently owning Redline, other chains and music retailers are padding Best Buy's pockets by selling CD's from Redline's artists. To quote Best Buy's CEO from a brief article in Forbes (about the only publication to cover the story): "Consumers are telling us they want to depend increasingly on one guy."
Also have you noticed how much of their charity work comes close on the heels of an album release? Live Aid single was released shortly after The Unforgettable Fire, the Sun City single comes shortly after Wide Awake in America is released. Ask yourself what work was being done when their albums didn't need any help selling ie around the time of Joshua Tree. Their so called charity song for Children in Need in 1998 (Lou Reed cover Perfect Day) was a) not recorded as a charity song at all, and b) released, interestingly enough, at the same time as they were promoting their Best of 1980-1990 album. The list goes on and on. Find me a time when their charity work does not coincide with promotion of a new album/single and I'll be amazed. Thats why many people think of them as corporate sellouts.
achtung baby. A great album and quite industrial sounding in some places. It helped that they had brian eno on board for production.
i am willing to admit now that U2 did sell out pretty badly after "pop". they were on their way to selling out after HMTMKMKM. damn.
