TARGET PRACTICE

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edited September 2009 in The Porch
Tonight at the Key Ed informed the crowd he'd purchased the Band's own record at Target on Sunday (really?). Is this a new Pearl Jam? What type of message is this sending? What are the details behind this partnership?
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    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:
  • Posts: 156
    Sicko wrote:
    Tonight at the Key Ed informed the crowd he'd purchased the Band's own record at Target on Sunday (really?). Is this a new Pearl Jam? What type of message is this sending? What are the details behind this partnership?

    Are you saying you think he is advertising for Target? I doubt he is, he just wanted to buy his album at Target and then he wanted to tell everyone. If the target name is dropped every night then start a new thread.
  • Posts: 129
    yeah, just in case there's that one person who doesnt have the internet (i.e. living under a rock) and has no clue about the partnership. my guess is, if someone's a fan, they know where to get it.
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    bhigh901 wrote:
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:

    As someone still waiting on his pre order i must say that is the quote of the year. you win :D:lol: :P
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    :o :shock: :lol: ..
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    I have a hard time buying the idea that he went to Target to buy the Band's own album. Is it chance or circumstance that, after he mentioned this, they played "The Fixer?" I
    immediatley draw a corprate advertising connection.

    I still would like to know more details about the actual partnership.
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    bhigh901 wrote:
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:

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    Sicko wrote:
    I have a hard time buying the idea that he went to Target to buy the Band's own album. Is it chance or circumstance that, after he mentioned this, they played "The Fixer?" I
    immediatley draw a corprate advertising connection.

    I still would like to know more details about the actual partnership.
    He probably just said it for "Target" marketing purposes. Target endorses PJ, Ed endorses Target. Kind of a "you pat my back, and I pat yours". I doubt he actually went to the store and bought his own album...
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    bhigh901 wrote:
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:

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    hmmm. would Target really need to have their name dropped liked that? Is there really a chance that there are people out there who don't know what Target is? Come on, we all LOVE Target!! And I just have to say "thanks Target," just so I can drop "Target" one more time in this short post :)
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    Sicko wrote:
    Tonight at the Key Ed informed the crowd he'd purchased the Band's own record at Target on Sunday (really?). Is this a new Pearl Jam? What type of message is this sending? What are the details behind this partnership?

    this just screams corporate whore to me
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    He said something along the lines of "Yesterday I bought a new record at Target..That's the first time I've seen one of those there. Pretty soon they'll sell record players, it'll be great" Then they went into The Fixer screaming "fight to get it back again"...I kinda thought what he said was more about trying to bring good music and vinyl back into the mainstream, rather than marketing for Target.
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    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    I kinda thought what he said was more about trying to bring good music and vinyl back into the mainstream, rather than marketing for Target.
    Sounds more like he wanted to drop Targets name and this was the most acceptable way for him to do it. I would have cringed hearing that... not that I even care that much about the whole 'sellout' argument. It was like seeing PJ sponsored on last year's tour...
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    meh.
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    He was simply trying to point out how great it was that anyone could by VINYL in a mainstream store like that.
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    elahw wrote:
    He was simply trying to point out how great it was that anyone could by VINYL in a mainstream store like that.

    That is how it sounds to me as well. But even if that is not true, I don't see any crime at all in the lead singer of a band announcing where their new record can be purchased...especially when that band is self-releasing a record for the first time! I really do not see anything wrong with doing that at all. I don't buy that the Target deal has compromised this band in any way. They own the record, they want to sell the record, this is how it got done.
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    JimmyV wrote:
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    That is how it sounds to me as well. But even if that is not true, I don't see any crime at all in the lead singer of a band announcing where their new record can be purchased.
    It's not a crime to sellout either ;)

    And for the record I dont care about the whole Target thing one way or the other outside of it being poorly handled, but I am not going to listen to people saying that was really 100% for the fans either. That's as much a load of crap as saying the band has sold out in the style of U2 or something.
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    You know..or...maybe...just maybe....there was no ulterior motive. I know, out of all the plausible scenarios presented in this thread, that this is the least likely. Crikey. This is a board of nit pickers. There I said..oh yeah I did.

    Regardless, it IS very odd that he might mention where to buy the album and not ask us all to illegally download its content. How dare he? How dare he, I say!!?
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    drsluggo wrote:
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    It's not a crime to sellout either ;)

    And for the record I dont care about the whole Target thing one way or the other outside of it being poorly handled, but I am not going to listen to people saying that was really 100% for the fans either. That's as much a load of crap as saying the band has sold out in the style of U2 or something.

    100% agree. I think the Target deal was something the band has been thinking about doing for a long time, something that they have wanted to do for a long time, and they found a way to do it. I realize I am in the minority as my experience at Target Sunday morning could not have been better. I do feel for people who had an unpleasant experience. I just sort of think that finally owning their music and self-releasing it is entirely in keeping with what Pearl Jam has always stood for. I hate hearing them accused of being "corporate whores" just because they made a business deal. I'm not working for free, they shouldn't either.
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    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    He said something along the lines of "Yesterday I bought a new record at Target..That's the first time I've seen one of those there. Pretty soon they'll sell record players, it'll be great" Then they went into The Fixer screaming "fight to get it back again"...I kinda thought what he said was more about trying to bring good music and vinyl back into the mainstream, rather than marketing for Target.

    It makes more sense seeing it in this context. Sometimes there is a bigger picture we see.
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