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SickoSicko Posts: 12
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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  • OceansMagnetOceansMagnet Posts: 1,044
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:
  • MortalityMortality 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.
  • NOyieldingCODENOyieldingCODE 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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  • SickoSicko Posts: 12
    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.
  • imissyoualreadyimissyoualready Posts: 438
    bhigh901 wrote:
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:

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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    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...
  • InMyTree4InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    bhigh901 wrote:
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:

    :lol::lol:
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  • Jessie78Jessie78 Posts: 65
    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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  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    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
  • BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    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.
  • drsluggodrsluggo Posts: 4,742
    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...
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    meh.
  • elahwelahw Posts: 61
    He was simply trying to point out how great it was that anyone could by VINYL in a mainstream store like that.
  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,410
    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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  • drsluggodrsluggo Posts: 4,742
    JimmyV wrote:
    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.
    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.
  • swardsward Posts: 586
    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!!?
  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,410
    drsluggo wrote:
    JimmyV wrote:
    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.
    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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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    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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  • pineapplesandwaves.pineapplesandwaves. GTA Posts: 1,808
    bhigh901 wrote:
    Ed had to buy it at Target because even HE couldn't get his preorder from 10club!! :shock:

    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    Target sucks and not because of the issues with backspacer over the weekend.

    ok, i take that back, i do buy kitty litter there, but that's about the only thing. most stuff is over priced
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  • drsluggodrsluggo Posts: 4,742
    81 wrote:
    Target sucks and not because of the issues with backspacer over the weekend.

    ok, i take that back, i do buy kitty litter there, but that's about the only thing. most stuff is over priced
    I like Target... they are slightly more than WalMart but a lot cleaner and you have room to turn around in an aisle.

    That said I'm all about Meijer in the midwest. :)
  • SatyagrahaSatyagraha Posts: 19
    He simply shared about their accomplishment of getting a Record in a store like that. . . .as was said. "Now all we have to do is to get them to sell record players"

    Can we get some 10Club edition record players? 8o)
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    drsluggo wrote:
    81 wrote:
    Target sucks and not because of the issues with backspacer over the weekend.

    ok, i take that back, i do buy kitty litter there, but that's about the only thing. most stuff is over priced
    I like Target... they are slightly more than WalMart but a lot cleaner and you have room to turn around in an aisle.

    That said I'm all about Meijer in the midwest. :)

    Wal*Mart is so hit and miss. Some are complete dumps (the one by my house) while others are pretty nice. The new extra large Wal*Mart is too big imo. takes half an hour to walk thru it. i'm sure they like it that way.


    Meijer's rocks.
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  • EvergreenEvergreen Posts: 492
    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?
    :lol::lol::lol:


    Somebody REALLY needs to explain why the Target deal is an issue.

    REALLY

    They needed them for distribution. They now own their music.

    Sony used to own them. Sony is a huge corporation.

    I will NEVER understand how everyone is fucking cutting this down.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    To me... it just sounds like people read way too deep into what Eddie says.
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  • Meine liebeMeine liebe Posts: 203
    Target does sell record players! Take a left at your record and it's 3 aisles on the right, Ed!
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