Important Change To Ten Club Membership Benefits

NEweather

 Thanks Ten Club for all the work and service for all the years.  Thanks dimitrispearljam for posting a whole bunch along the way. Thanks Pearl Jam for beyond what I can express. Happy New Year to everyone!

Lost In Ohio

HughFreakingDillon said:

i think it would have been a cool idea for the fan club single to be a track that pearl jam recorded that was originally a side project or solo song of one of the band members. 

like pj does rndm

Or even proper releases of Thunderclap, Harmony and...was it Foldback?

I bet a lot of fans don't even know about those songs.

Abe Froman

Lost In Ohio said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

i think it would have been a cool idea for the fan club single to be a track that pearl jam recorded that was originally a side project or solo song of one of the band members. 

like pj does rndm

Or even proper releases of Thunderclap, Harmony and...was it Foldback?

I bet a lot of fans don't even know about those songs.

I love this idea!  This is the kinda stuff they could easily put on the annual single. Thus one of the many reasons I wish the band and 10c would reconsider the decision to end the single. 

Rosdower

at the end of the day, it's just sad.  i feel as though the band cares less and less about the fans, and more about just doing select shows in the same cities tour after tour.  i miss the days of ordering shirts and stickers via the mail in order. those days have gone. but im sure they'll be happy to take my money for the membership so they can send me my awesome emails.... 

FR181798

Rosdower said:

at the end of the day, it's just sad.  i feel as though the band cares less and less about the fans, and more about just doing select shows in the same cities tour after tour.  i miss the days of ordering shirts and stickers via the mail in order. those days have gone. but im sure they'll be happy to take my money for the membership so they can send me my awesome emails.... 

Those days arent just gone, they are long gone. 10c hasnt been like that for a long time. Its easy to get nostalgic but a lot of things just arent possible given the size it is now.

Wma31394

FR181798 said:

Rosdower said:

at the end of the day, it's just sad.  i feel as though the band cares less and less about the fans, and more about just doing select shows in the same cities tour after tour.  i miss the days of ordering shirts and stickers via the mail in order. those days have gone. but im sure they'll be happy to take my money for the membership so they can send me my awesome emails.... 

Those days arent just gone, they are long gone. 10c hasnt been like that for a long time. Its easy to get nostalgic but a lot of things just arent possible given the size it is now.

That's what she said!? 

BF25394

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

BF25394 said:

dimitrispearljam said:

.not gonna waste my precious time,complaining about a rock band fan club change benefit atg a membership..im waititng for the future and see how it goes.

With all due respect, how precious is your time if you have enough of it to have posted over 135,000 times on this message board?

So... I guess you're saying you have a better life than him?

I'm noting the irony in his stating that his time is too precious to dwell on a decision relating to Pearl Jam when he has devoted enough time to commenting on Pearl Jam to have posted 135,000 times.  I'm not judging him; I'm just pointing out the irony of what he said.  I love that he is as passionate about the band as he is.  There's nothing wrong with devoting one's precious time to a thing that one loves.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

BF25394 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

BF25394 said:

dimitrispearljam said:

.not gonna waste my precious time,complaining about a rock band fan club change benefit atg a membership..im waititng for the future and see how it goes.

With all due respect, how precious is your time if you have enough of it to have posted over 135,000 times on this message board?

So... I guess you're saying you have a better life than him?

I'm noting the irony in stating that your time is too precious to dwell on a decision relating to Pearl Jam when you have devoted enough time to commenting on Pearl Jam to have posted 135,000 times.  I'm not judging him; I'm just pointing out the irony of what he said.

I get it now (when I first read it... it seemed like you were knocking him for his post count).

LeeRoberts24

Never posted before but I am sad about this.  I Joined in 98 and have a member number in the 193 range.  After some crafty use of ebay and sales on 10C website, I collected the other singles.  I will have a full set once these last two get shipped.  Is there any way to get an analog membership count pre announcement and then get another next year?

deadendp

LeeRoberts24 said:

Never posted before but I am sad about this.  I Joined in 98 and have a member number in the 193 range.  After some crafty use of ebay and sales on 10C website, I collected the other singles.  I will have a full set once these last two get shipped.  Is there any way to get an analog membership count pre announcement and then get another next year?

Not exactly sure of what you are asking here.  

verceman

I love the optimism some of you see in the final line, but honestly “we’re excited to see what the future holds” is very ambiguous and tells me ten club is not making any promises.  If it had said “we are excited about what the future holds” or something more of a tease like that, then OK, but the phrase “excited to see” is as non-commital, ambiguous , and open ended as it gets and I don’t think we should hold our breath for much.

my_wave

Another thing that's frustrating about this decision is that if you look on the bay there have been a lot of bootleg vinyl releases lately, and some of them actually look really nice as far as art, etc... I know most of these are radio shows and i'm not sure, but i think that's how whoever makes these are able to somehow legally do it, but honestly i have no idea... but the fact is you have other people doing that independently, while as we all know, we've been waiting for something, anything for years... I just think that shows how easy it is to press and release something, also some people have mentioned the reason for the delay maybe being not wanting to get in the studio and record something new for the singles, but the live improvs alone this band has played over the years, which were mostly pre-2000 shows, i know a lot of those have improvs on them, but the live improvs that have never been officially released would be enough to easily be released as singles and could be put out for years... and on that note, here's to hoping someday they'll release all the live improvs on a lost dogs type release... we all also know that there are plenty of unreleased demos that date back to binaural of unreleased songs that we can all hear on youtube that they could easily release as singles, but maybe they're saving those for lost dogs volume 2, or even better, a new album... there are just so many possibilities... in the end there's a lot of unrealeased music still out there,... sad that even with all of that there will be no more singles, but hopefully we'll get an official release of it all someday...

DenisF

I have just tried to order a bootleg cd at the discount with my membership code but it says it is invalid is this because of the shutdown? Anyone else having this problem?

Lost In Ohio

DenisF said:

I have just tried to order a bootleg cd at the discount with my membership code but it says it is invalid is this because of the shutdown? Anyone else having this problem?

CDs cannot be ordered with the codes...they never have been.

cincybearcat

Lost In Ohio said:

DenisF said:

I have just tried to order a bootleg cd at the discount with my membership code but it says it is invalid is this because of the shutdown? Anyone else having this problem?

CDs cannot be ordered with the codes...they never have been.

Partially true. In the distant past you could get $10 off a cd. But no more. 

jeffbr

verceman said:

I love the optimism some of you see in the final line, but honestly “we’re excited to see what the future holds” is very ambiguous and tells me ten club is not making any promises.  If it had said “we are excited about what the future holds” or something more of a tease like that, then OK, but the phrase “excited to see” is as non-commital, ambiguous , and open ended as it gets and I don’t think we should hold our breath for much.

Yup. "excited to see" means they don't know what's coming either. If they had a plan in place they'd have said something like "excited to share..." meaning they'd reveal the details soon. But "excited to see" means they don't have a clue and are waiting for things to unfold just as we are. Whatever. It was likely a rash decision, which needed to be made before they were committed to yet another year and another single. So they dumped the perk, and are now scrambling to figure out a new perk that people might enjoy and which might justify an analog membership level. Since this is no longer a band that is interested in making new music together, I'd like to see something along the lines of Neil Young's digital archive, as my2hands suggested.

LeeRoberts24

deadendp said:

LeeRoberts24 said:

Never posted before but I am sad about this.  I Joined in 98 and have a member number in the 193 range.  After some crafty use of ebay and sales on 10C website, I collected the other singles.  I will have a full set once these last two get shipped.  Is there any way to get an analog membership count pre announcement and then get another next year?

Not exactly sure of what you are asking here.  

I apologize for the confusion.  I was wondering if you could see the number of people who were analog members before the announcement and then see how membership drops off.  I also wonder how many people discontinued the auto renew feature shortly after the announcement

JM55546

I'm out on Analog for obvious reasons. Fan club since I was 17 in 2000. I get everyone is getting older, but I'm not giving them an extra $20 a year to get a t-shirt that costs 10 cents to make and sucks. Sad to see what they've become in a lot of ways. I love PJ and listen to them daily but their story now is sad. Just a few money grabs a year, which I have paid for as well. It'd really take some minimum effort by them to make it be great, but they can't be bothered. Glad they are loving their life and i'll keep a digital membership and go to shows, but that's about it. It's a nostalgia act. If i didn't live in Boston and get tickets a lot I'd cancel completely if I was anywhere but the 8-10 cities they pay. It's a shame. 

Get_Right

PJ is not a nostalgia act IMHO. Maybe in ten years if there is no more new music. Even then, nostalgia acts are when you go see the guy from Herman's Hermits at a casino in Schenectady.

Kevinman

JM55546 said:

I'm out on Analog for obvious reasons. Fan club since I was 17 in 2000. I get everyone is getting older, but I'm not giving them an extra $20 a year to get a t-shirt that costs 10 cents to make and sucks. Sad to see what they've become in a lot of ways. I love PJ and listen to them daily but their story now is sad. Just a few money grabs a year, which I have paid for as well. It'd really take some minimum effort by them to make it be great, but they can't be bothered. Glad they are loving their life and i'll keep a digital membership and go to shows, but that's about it. It's a nostalgia act. If i didn't live in Boston and get tickets a lot I'd cancel completely if I was anywhere but the 8-10 cities they pay. It's a shame. 

Agree, if I was somewhere they haven’t played in a long while, I would probably not renew.  Being in Chicago is lucky, as far as shows go.