"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
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.
That's pretty sick actually
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.
There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn't name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!
So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?
fuck amazon in general tbh
We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!
I dgaf what that cunt says.
Pinkerton was their peak. It was all downhill from there.
It's like they regressed on Green, but to a radio friendly banger version of Weezer that was pretty good. Then everything after that was just watery goat diarrhea.
is this something people care about?
It's something people who listen to Weezer care about.
Personally I like all the music (up to the point where I stopped collecting their music), some of it is just different than others. The later stuff doesn't have nearly as much of an "anti-establishment" bent to it, and that rubs people who define themselves by the bands they listen to the wrong way.
Pinkerton is good but it's pretty much just "Weezer does the Pixies." Listening to Doolittle and Bossanova ruined so many 90s albums for me
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!
If you're in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.
And if you're a pirate, or if you happen to have a lot of Audiobook CDs, or if you have a bunch of books on audible and want to free them, AudiobookShelf is an amazing self hosted solution for Audiobook libraries
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.
Yeah I was thinking it was Grapes of Wrath. It makes sense, the song's whole point was River's pandemic-era hobbies, and Audible blew up in the pandemic. I feel this rant is just the author projecting their anti-Amazon mindset onto a band they dislike. Sure, Amazon is terrible, but I doubt they would pay Weezer of all bands to promote Audible. Maybe its just my youthful optimism and love of Weezer clouding my rationality, but I feel like this is just another "old man yells at cloud".
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.
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.
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.
The people on the Windows 95 CD are sell-outs?!
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."
Ever read Transmetropolitan? This sounds like something directly out of that. People going to concerts to hear their favorite bands sing advertisements to them.
It feels so bizarre that they would do this, they always seemed so cool to me.
Grapes of Wrath is a great song, it's not some "audible ad". It's weird that one of their best songs in years is being characterized like that.
With how shitty Weezer is nowadays, that Audible.com song might be their best work in years
Yeah...nowadays...
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.
Having all of their needs fulfilled a hundred times over alters their sense of normalcy and causes them to be less relatable. It’s inevitable.
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!
Somebody needs to invent an IRL adblocker.
It's called booing.
What stage of capitalism is this?
I'm finding it more and more difficult to keep track these days.
This person just wrote copy for audible.
You could tell they'd sold out to Audible when "Grapes of Wrath" came out.
I was at the concerts in the 90s and early 2000s, Metallica, Slayer, Motörhead, Amorphis, Nofx, Bad Religion etc, I don't go to concerts anymore for about 10 years. They don't make them as they used to anymore. What shows they were - wow. Even the smaller ones were epic as fuck, like Blind Guardian. No, they don't do it anymore. This post prices my point once again. ( TIL I'm finally in the "back in my days" age)
That’s when you start spitting on that band.
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