Starbucks starts its own record label

dunkman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6445013.stm

Starbucks launches record label

Starbucks has extended its brand to music, books and films
Coffee house Starbucks is to launch its own music label, saying it will sign both established and new artists.
The chain, which has 13,000 stores worldwide, has already released albums under its Hear Music brand, licensing songs from other companies.

Starbucks bosses said the label would now become more independent and that music fitted with the firm's identity.

No artists have yet been confirmed but it is expected to be officially launched in the next few weeks.



i just heard the Paul McCartney has 'bean' signed up as its first big artist!

anyway...

Byrnzie

dunkman wrote:

Starbucks bosses said the label would now become more independent and that music fitted with the firm's identity.

Right that's it! I can't take anymore. I'm getting on the first plane to Korea!

dunkman

Byrnzie wrote:

Right that's it! I can't take anymore. I'm getting on the first plane to Korea!

i knew you wouldnt like it

VitalDissidence

I rrrrrrrreally hate companies like Disney and Starbucks. They have to get their grubby hands into every facet of our lives and I freakin hate it. Starbucks coffee isn't even that good, they just put crack in it.

Byrnzie

VitalDissidence wrote:

Starbucks coffee isn't even that good, they just put crack in it.

:eek:

jeffbr

Somebody please explain how it is bad that there is another label promoting artists? Why is it a bad thing when you come in for a cup of coffee to be exposed to emerging artists? It sure sounds like a good thing for the consumer, a good thing for the artist, and a way to capture additional revenue for Starbucks. Who specifically loses here?

Byrnzie

jeffbr wrote:

Who specifically loses here?

Everyone who isn't a corporate whore.

luckyman

they can not even make a good coffee
fuck them

surferdude

Byrnzie wrote:

Everyone who isn't a corporate whore.

We're all corporate whores. I'm pretty sure you're using a corporate made computer, using huge corporate whore internet connections and listen to a band that has signed big corporate whore contracts and play in venues with huge corporate names plastered all over them. We are the corporate whore generation.

Byrnzie

surferdude wrote:

We're all corporate whores. I'm pretty sure you're using a corporate made computer, using huge corporate whore internet connections and listen to a band that has signed big corporate whore contracts and play in venues with huge corporate names plastered all over them. We are the corporate whore generation.

I try to keep my whoredom to a minimum. Not drinking in Starbucks is an example of my whoring abstinence.

jeffbr

Byrnzie wrote:

Everyone who isn't a corporate whore.

How? I honestly don't understand how you lose if Starbucks promotes an emerging artist. You wouldn't likely have known about the artist anyway. So worst case, you are break-even, the the rest of us corporate whores benefit.

Byrnzie

jeffbr wrote:

How? I honestly don't understand how you lose if Starbucks promotes an emerging artist. You wouldn't likely have known about the artist anyway. So worst case, you are break-even, the the rest of us corporate whores benefit.

There's just something unclean about it. Like the Brixton Academy changing it's name to The Carling Academy, or like Dennis Hopper hawking fucking credit cards on t.v. Smells rotten to me.

norm

Byrnzie wrote:

There's just something unclean about it. Like the Brixton Academy changing it's name to The Carling Academy, or like Dennis Hopper hawking fucking credit cards on t.v. Smells rotten to me.

I agree with ya but I also understand what jeff is saying. As long as they promote good up and coming artists I don't see it as a bad thing.

Byrnzie

cutback wrote:

I agree with ya but I also understand what jeff is saying. As long as they promote good up and coming artists I don't see it as a bad thing.

Good up and coming artists who will henceforth always be associated with being hawked into the public eye by Starbucks Coffee shop. What this does for their credibility will remain to be seen.

norm

Byrnzie wrote:

Good up and coming artists who will henceforth always be associated with being hawked into the public eye by Starbucks Coffee shop. What this does for someone's credibility will remain to be seen.

True. But it seems like todays kids wouldn't care anyway. American Idol is the number one show here in the states. Anyone that would sign with Starbucks probably doesn't want our business anyways.

surferdude

Byrnzie wrote:

Good up and coming artists who will henceforth always be associated with being hawked into the public eye by Starbucks Coffee shop. What this does for their credibility will remain to be seen.

Credibility has to do with artistic integrity. You can sell that just as easy on a small private label as on a Starbucks label.

Credibility to others may mean being able to pay the bills while working as a musician.

I saw Avocado on sale at Starbucks, it didn't bother me. I see Pearl Jam being sung on American Idol, it didn't bother me. I see Pearl Jam play general admission seating again, it didn't bother me. I care about the purity of the music not the periphial stuff.

Byrnzie

cutback wrote:

True. But it seems like todays kids wouldn't care anyway. American Idol is the number one show here in the states. Anyone that would sign with Starbucks probably doesn't want our business anyways.

True. :cool:

Binaural

Anything Starbucks touches is tinged with duplicitous motive. Plus lets face it, this is likely to run down the same route as the whole MySpace music horseshit that takes average musicians who make substandard music and forcefeeds them to a mass group, pushing them until they are successful. Starbucks couldn't give a shit about music, this is just a mahcine to make them more money, and I know the aim of any label is to make money, however starbucks make coffee, I doubt they will focus the energies needed to make this a worthwile venture.

Byrnzie

surferdude wrote:

I saw Avocado on sale at Starbucks

That's not relevant to my point.

surferdude wrote:

I see Pearl Jam being sung on American Idol

Sung by who? Not Pearl Jam.

surferdude wrote:

I see Pearl Jam play general admission seating again

I don't see the relevance to my point.

hippiemom

I've heard some really good music being played in Starbucks, and seen some great CDs on sale there.

Their coffee sucks though.

Maybe they should stick with music and get out of the coffee business.

Binaural

hippiemom wrote:

Their coffee sucks though..

Really? I mean over here its awful but the chain has only just arrived, I thought maybe thats what it would have been down to. I can't understand its huge growth in America if the coffee is no better :confuse: