Sonic Youth to release album through Starbucks

What do you want?

I don't think its worth us getting all high and mighty with any "Sell out" business..they should of changed their name to Sonic Elderly a while ago anyway and this sort of shit happens to all the 'big' bands eventually. They've done pretty well going for 30 years and not doing it so much.

so no surprise!

as I pointed out in a different thread over the weekend, Starbucks (or any of the big coffee chains - they almost all buy their coffee via Nestle, Kraft, Procter & Gamble and Sara Lee) is not just any old big corporation to sell out to. There are some serious issues with trade ethics that are specific to mass market coffee:

http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/

TO UNIVERSAL!

starbucks coffee was fair trade? or did i make that up? not that it would automatically make them upstanding citizens...

that's not actually what it says

make those of UMG pale in comparison. Not least because they're so much bigger. And the entertainment corps mainly stick to exploiting people in the developed world, who in the grand scheme of things are already rich anyway.

who are big big conglomerate who i'm sure have their fingers in some nasty pies somewhere or other.

"favorite [sic]" hilarious and silly.

I changed the news! My anal moan about musical pigeonholing changed the news!

What a fine Monday it is turning out to be.

and yes, they have been signed to Geffen for years now, but really, it leaves a slightly bitter taste in the mouth (boom boom). Like stated above, this isnt just another band and this is not just another company. You only have to watch The Year That Punk Broke to see the nature of the reversal in attitude. I dont understand the view that "oh everyone does this now so its ok" - its still worthy of discussion and criticism

is fairly traded, fairtrade is actually a company and farmers have to buy the right to be labeled fairtrade. most, obviously, can't afford that so starbucks pay the fairtrade rate to all farmers regardless of labels.

plus, SY were the ones that persuaded Nirvana to go to a major, so they've never been uber idealistic.

Stop it! Getting boring now.

come here, sit down
There’s something I gotta ask you.
I just wanna know, what are you gonna do for me?
I mean, are you gonna liberate us girls
From male white corporate oppression?

They've spent their entire career trying to sell out but they lack the talent. Starbucks? Who in hell do they think is going to buy their record?

They turned bum notes into an art form and this is just another one.