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dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
edited March 2007 in A Moving Train
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...
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    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! ;)
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    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 :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • VitalDissidenceVitalDissidence Posts: 160
    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.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    VitalDissidence wrote:
    Starbucks coffee isn't even that good, they just put crack in it.

    :eek:
  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    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?
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    jeffbr wrote:
    Who specifically loses here?

    Everyone who isn't a corporate whore.
  • luckymanluckyman Posts: 25
    they can not even make a good coffee
    fuck them
  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    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.
    “One good thing about music,
    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
    ~ Bob Marley
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    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.
  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    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.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    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.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    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.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    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.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    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. :p
  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    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.
    “One good thing about music,
    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
    ~ Bob Marley
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    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. :p

    True. :cool:
  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    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.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    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.
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    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.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    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:
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Binaural wrote:
    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:

    They over-roast their beans. And then they add crack. :p
  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    cutback wrote:
    They over-roast their beans. And then they add crack. :p
    Yeah this is what I thought when I tasted it, I have seen some 'barristas' make the coffee and have seen them put the grind in the hopper and leave it in the machine until they foam the milk, which is retarded because by the time they have finished the coffee grind is completely burnt. *sigh* Does it show I'm not a big fan of Starbucks? :D
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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Binaural wrote:
    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:
    I don't understand it either. I do like their frappucinos, I'll get those once in a while in the summer, but the coffee itself when it's not mixed with a bunch of other ingredients just isn't very good. Luckily I have a nice local shop and a small local chain that make excellent coffee.

    Starbucks is better than Caribou though, I'll give them that much.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    I don't mind. I don't see a problem with it.
    I know there are artists out there like Lisa Loeb who are still making a modest living in the music business and do not get radio play for their recent work because the radio/promotions side of the business see her as old news and are out to promote/sell Kelly Clarkson (who will get kicked to the curb in a couple of years). If Lisa can sell a few CDs through Starbucks... good.
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  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    i wrote this next number high on mocha frappa latte..hows my hair..pointy enough...who cares fuck you black coffee drinkers...its all about the creamer baby!
  • PJammin'PJammin' Posts: 1,902
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Everyone who isn't a corporate whore.

    U can't get away from corporations unless you live in a jungle. most people are corporate whores, there's really no escaping it.
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    PJammin' wrote:
    U can't get away from corporations unless you live in a jungle. most people are corporate whores, there's really no escaping it.

    Tell that to Naomi Klein.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    I get a kick out of the messages on starbucks cups.

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    -- Jeffrey Kuehl
    Starbucks customer from Wilmette, Illinois.

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    Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is a scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America’s public schools? Yes, let’s do it – not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu idea that the Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.

    -- David Quammen
    Author. His books include The Song of the Dodo and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

    #224
    Darwinism’s impact on traditional social values has not been as benign as its advocates would like us to believe. Despite the efforts of its modern defenders to distance themselves from its baleful social consequences, Darwinism’s connection with eugenics, abortion and racism is a matter of historical record. And the record is not pretty.

    -- Dr. Jonathan Wells
    Biologist and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

    http://www.starbucks.com/retail/thewayiseeit_default.asp?act=1&last=39
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    I like dunkin donuts coffee
  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    jlew24asu wrote:
    I like dunkin donuts coffee
    Thats one American chain I've yet to hear of expanding to across the Atlantic. Anyone know for sure?
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