i thought we established its not a covers album?

I wonder if courtney love selected a track, does anybody know if Kim is friends with her? i was under the impression she was from an interview i watched.

Hm... since we all own the albums anyways, I don't see what the big fuss is about. It'd be one thing if the band picked the songs, but they didn't.
I'll pick this up for superstar and the unreleased song, since those are the only ones I don't have on cd.

no eric's trip? what the hell is the point of this stupid cd anyway?

just give me the new song

viewtiful_alan: they'll be COVERS! ! !

prove it.

That seems pretty unfounded....

do you think the new track will end up being a bonus track on the UK edition of their next album?

I'm sure Courtney didn't pick a track, and I don't think anybody is friends with her anymore at this point. Way back when she was on friendly terms with Sonic Youth, but she knew how to wear that mightily thin, and if you read the Lollapalooza '95 tour diaries, it's pretty clear they'd had it with her.

howdy,not too long ago,the wonderful MOSHE had a post on the board about starbucks giving up on music and cd's.so i'm posting here to ask if the "hits are for squares" cd will still be released..i recall hearing it was coming out in june..i went to the starbucks/hearmusic site and they have releases listed until june 10th...no sonic youth...if u type them in the search on starbucks nothing comes up either.if anyone knows i'd love to hear about it.i wrote starbucks when i first heard about the sy cd..and to my suprise they wrote back...but didn't have any info on the sonic youth cd...i might drop em a line again and see if they know now.....if they reply i'll let y'all know

The tracklist looks a bit strange to me.

That's definitely weird.

its silent about hits are for squares, and that its the one fact for now.

Now that would be ingenious marketing! If there was no album, and they just paid Sonic Youth to agree to say there was, and all 150 Sonic Youth fans globally who don't already go to Starbucks, but who really want a celebrity picked compilation, started going in there every day to see if it came in... Smells like some inevitable frapucino purchases!

to me this is a cd for serious noobs... i guess there's nothing wrong with that and i don't necessarily have a problem with it... one new track and a bunch of stuff from previous albums with celebrity choices and liner notes, not enough for me to go out of my way to go to starbucks (i prefer tim horton's anyway) and pick this up, and if its at a standard price for a cd? especially not worth it (again) for me... maybe if the new track was 30-40 minutes long...

so let me get this straight

Its a picture 'pop up' book where celebs have done pictorial interpretations of SY tracks? And they did it Live, and a recording of the sessions is going on the Starbucks site? Cool.

That's pretty much completely correct, yes.

you forgot "strawberry-flavored pop-up book".

wait! this will be the live version of sy songs?!

it will be a all cover album, each song interpreted by Scarlett Johnansen

in her husky, cock-throat voice