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Originally Posted by louder
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm a little astounded by the unabashed commercialism behind this album. I find the art and teaser pics compelling as hell, and I am most definitely going to pirate the fuck out of the thing (all I have are Apple products now, so I don't think I can utilize the early release app) because I sure as hell know I'll probably listen to it for a month straight... But I find the whole thing a bit disgusting. Brand promotion and misleading marketing ploys, and this kind of slight of hand chivalry... Giving an album away, or giving a million albums away, or a million theoretical electronic kind-of albums away, then trying to get the charity google sales to count on Billboard? Then, when told "yeah, probably not," getting the RIAA to change the meaning of the term "platinum?"
I mean... Why? I haven't been following anything other than headlines, but is Jay really that invested in having his album go platinum before it's even listened to? And doesn't he get that he's selling phones for Samsung? For a guy who can "sell ice in the winter," that doesn't seem very savvy to me. You'd think he would have been going over the fine print and bending the wills of CEOs to make it so that this was never even an issue.
Interesting that you mention taking shit for being loyal to someone generally thought of as shallow, louder, because I've never really thought of Jay as a shallow guy. Not until now, I mean.
That said, I'll sign a contract and buy a goddamn Nexus Galactus Ninety or whatever the fuck those fat, stupid, ridiculously ugly phones are called if I have to.... I'm gonna hear that album as soon as humanly possible.
I'll chuck the thing after I side load or extract the songs from it, of course.
Wait, maybe one of my Kindles will work.
Cool art. I'm just being snarky. I don't give much of a shit what the platform is; a new Jay album is something I can't not get excited about.