Metacritic.com
Film Video/DVD Music Games Books TV
Metacritic    Metacritic Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Music  Hop To Forums  Record Labels    Starbucks New Label: Could it become a nest for dinosaurs?
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
-star Rating Rate It!  Login/Join 
Apprentice Guru
Posted
I also own a little coffee house that I want to run in retirement. When people come to coffee houses they most enjoy intellectual discussion and reading a good book. Folk music works well and live acoustic performances also work. However, no one asks for good rock and roll to rattle the walls. It makes me wonder if those signing to this label are going to start trying to create music that fits the Starbucks scenario. For some that is great, for others terrible. I would hate for McCartney to not try to rock us one more time now that he is on the label. I am curious as to who else is going to follow suit and have their music sold over a cup of coffee? And, what kind of music is it going to be?


Boy, you got to carry that weight a long time!
 
Posts: 385 | Location: Georgia | Registered: 14 October 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Jedi
Posted Hide Post
It bothers me that a good artist would even sign to a Starbucks label... I can understand signing to a major label... but fuckin' STARBUCKS? Gross.
 
Posts: 2489 | Location: Drug induced coma. | Registered: 01 December 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Jedi
Posted Hide Post
All I can see is a CD full of white boys singing softly over a strummed guitar.


------
Let's raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer! I do believe he was our only decent teacher
 
Posts: 2071 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Slacker First Class
Posted Hide Post
I think bands are aware that if they're on a Starbucks label that they are:

1. Selling out
2. Washing out
 
Posts: 11 | Registered: 29 November 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Guru
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Mathor:
I think bands are aware that if they're on a Starbucks label that they are:
1. Selling out
2. Washing out
Yet, they just keep signing to it.


________________________________________________________
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
tinymixtapes.com / The Skinny / PopMatters
 
Posts: 984 | Location: Vansterdam, Canada | Registered: 28 November 2004Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
"Forum Moderator"
Super Bad-Ass Jedi
Posted Hide Post
Sonic Youth recently had a hits compilation released through Starbucks. When pressed for comment, Kim Gordon said, "They're less evil than Universal."


-----
I’ll be Ben Gazzara, you’ll be Gena Rowlands.

 
Posts: 5161 | Location: Michigan | Registered: 19 June 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Guru
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by EricG75:
"They're less evil than Universal."
Very true. At least Starbucks dabbles in fair trade and organic. All Universal ever did was suck and profit.


________________________________________________________
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
tinymixtapes.com / The Skinny / PopMatters
 
Posts: 984 | Location: Vansterdam, Canada | Registered: 28 November 2004Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
 Previous Topic | Next Topic powered by eve community  
 

Metacritic    Metacritic Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Music  Hop To Forums  Record Labels    Starbucks New Label: Could it become a nest for dinosaurs?

©2006 CNET Networks Inc. All rights reserved.
 
Home | FILM | DVD/VIDEO | MUSIC | GAMES | BOOKS | TV | About Metacritic metacritic.com