Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So they release this on a Sunday with no email to fan club members? I suppose if I wasn't out enjoying the beautiful weather today I would have seen it on one of the fifteen Pearl Jam-related sites I have to follow on social media just to get news from this fucking band.

Rangi Guy wrote:It appears to no longer be on Amazon either

Spoiler: show

HardTI wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Oh and then they only make fifty and sell out within hours. Good job 10C, good fucking job.

do we know how many they made?

stip wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:As long as the shit sells out instantly it is hard to fault 10c for making it

It's not that hard.

Are you against it because

A: it is a stupid product

B: because 10c will profit from it

C: because owning this might give someone a small, quiet bit of pleasure


Please assign each answer 1-5 stars in terms of its personal applicability

B wrote:It seems kinda dumb to me so I didn't buy it. Then I went on living my life as though the release of this product had no impact on it.

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:As long as the shit sells out instantly it is hard to fault 10c for making it

It's not that hard.

Are you against it because

A: it is a stupid product

B: because 10c will profit from it

C: because owning this might give someone a small, quiet bit of pleasure


Please assign each answer 1-5 stars in terms of its personal applicability

That nobody in the Pearl Jam organisation thought to say "that's a really dumb idea" seems, to me, indicative of a greater malaise. Does anyone there actually like music, follow bands, buy records? It seems hard to believe.

I'm unimpressed mainly by the cynicism I see behind the mountains of merchandise junk Pearl Jam releases; the KISS comparisons really aren't that absurd. As you said, the attitude seems to be "if these morons are dumb enough to buy it, we'd be stupid not to sell it!" If there was something, anything, to suggest there was some kind of motivation behind this release greater than "people will buy it", I'd be more understanding.

Music really means something to me. When the band treats their own record like something that can be arbitrarily cut up, repackaged and resold at a premium, it creates the impression that it doesn't mean that much to them.

BurtReynolds wrote:

B wrote:It seems kinda dumb to me so I didn't buy it. Then I went on living my life as though the release of this product had no impact on it.

see I can't do that.I start feeling bad for the suckafools getting played by an evil corporation and get angry.I want someone to be punished.

I just care. I care too much.

evenslow wrote:there are plenty of things to take great umbrage with. this is not one of them. annoying sure, but nothing to get worked up about.

i have freed you of umbrage. rejoice and give thanks.

stip wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:As long as the shit sells out instantly it is hard to fault 10c for making it

It's not that hard.

Are you against it because

A: it is a stupid product

B: because 10c will profit from it

C: because owning this might give someone a small, quiet bit of pleasure


Please assign each answer 1-5 stars in terms of its personal applicability

That nobody in the Pearl Jam organisation thought to say "that's a really dumb idea" seems, to me, indicative of a greater malaise. Does anyone there actually like music, follow bands, buy records? It seems hard to believe.

I'm unimpressed mainly by the cynicism I see behind the mountains of merchandise junk Pearl Jam releases; the KISS comparisons really aren't that absurd. As you said, the attitude seems to be "if these morons are dumb enough to buy it, we'd be stupid not to sell it!" If there was something, anything, to suggest there was some kind of motivation behind this release greater than "people will buy it", I'd be more understanding.

Music really means something to me. When the band treats their own record like something that can be arbitrarily cut up, repackaged and resold at a premium, it creates the impression that it doesn't mean that much to them.

What does this have to do with the music? And how is this arbitrarily cut up? have they retracked lightning bolt?!

Hell, it's not even like it's a non music product (like lightning bolt brand yoghurt) or anything like that. It is the album repackaged in a particularly fancy way marketed to a small group of collectors who like that stuff.

I would have been bothered by this if there was a new version of a song or something that made this necessary to buy for purposes of hearing the music.

And I'm not sure the kiss comparisons are far off either, in terms of merchandising, but I also don't care since I hardly see the music existing as an excuse to sell merchandise or the merchandise that is being sold somehow altering the meaning or message of the music.

stip wrote:i just hope you realize that you're disrespecting the music while you're doing it

BurtReynolds wrote:

evenslow wrote:there are plenty of things to take great umbrage with. this is not one of them. annoying sure, but nothing to get worked up about.

i have freed you of umbrage. rejoice and give thanks.

free at last!