June 29, 2005
Yawn
I sold my soul to make a record, dipshit And then you bought one -- TOOL
His protest songs made him the figurehead of the anti-establishment movement that defined America during the 1960s. But yesterday Bob Dylan was facing accusations of selling out after it emerged the singer had agreed an exclusive deal to sell some of his rarest tracks at Starbuck's, the coffee shop chain targeted by anti-globalization protesters as a symbol of American cultural dominance. [...]By yesterday afternoon fans on Dylan discussion boards were already venting their fury. "This sucks," wrote one doleful fan on the website Expectingrain.com. "He's belittling his music." Another disgruntled fan opined: "He certainly doesn't need the money. Maybe he's doing it to directly discredit the public's view of him as an anti-establishment protest singer?"
Uh, is Bawb's selling his rekkids through Starbuck's supposed to somehow be more sellout that selling them through Columbia (or whoever the fuck he's signed to these days)? Geez, it's not as though he jumped from an Indie to Starbuck's.
Like an acoustic version of the Alanis Morissette album Jagged Little Pill, which Starbucks began selling several weeks ago, the Dylan release will not initially be available anywhere else, in this case for 18 months.
Eighteen months? How about eighteen minutes until it's available online?
Posted by Eddie Tews at June 29, 2005 06:02 PM
Comments
At a coffee shop with wireless access - eighteen seconds! -- Posted by: Thomas Ware on July 1, 2005 10:09 AM