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      Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books. Which is bullshit if I pay for a book no way should they be allowed to add ads into my books.

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        Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books.

        At least they aren’t putting Weezer songs in their books.

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            In addition to Buddy Holly, my windows 95 also had Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong by the Spin Doctors. What a time.

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              They should have topped it off with 500 miles, my dawdurrrr, and maybe throw in mr Jones just to really dial up the pain.

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    If you’re in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.

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      “Hey, everybody! Thanks for coming out tonight to our concert presented by Amazon dot com’s Audible dot com. Audible - it’s got what brains crave.”

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    Celebrities shamelessly selling out and publicly writing blatant repetitive advertisement? How could they do such a thing?

    Anyways, that movie, now also available on streaming services!

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      IMO there is no way a musician name drops a product without collecting a bag. The interview with Amazon would also have cost them money to make happen.

      Weezer would need to be astonishingly naive to write the song before the agreement was reached with Amazon. Also other comments in this thread detail their past record of selling out.

      I listen to quite a lot of hip-hop and there were a couple of years about a decade ago where almost every artist had a lyric about uber.

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        It’s interesting. There are many songs from over the years about products the song writer likes.

        I’m thinking about beers, and cars, and instruments, and various other things. Including games and movies and books.

        It’s funny that once it’s a website, that crosses the line.

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          People are incapable of applying critical thinking to traditions. They grew up with beer and car ads, so that’s normal. Website ads are new, so they get treated with basic critical thinking and are hated, because that’s the logical way to feel about all ads.

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          It’s not the website part that I find stupid. It’s the advertising for free.

          I also think that those things are stupid. Whatever company owns the product isn’t going to be happy if you take it for free, so don’t give that company something for free.

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          The Who did an entire album where they jokingly plugged products, including on the album cover.

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      Also doesn’t seem like it was paid placement

      I’m not so sure on that. At the very least they paid him for the interview there, and really I think they probably just made out that they didn’t find out beforehand.

      It’s pretty ridiculous to think that a band that’s been in the business as long as Weezer has, signed to a major label like Atlantic Records, wouldn’t ask for permission to use someone else’s brand in one of their songs.

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    As a counter point to this guy saying “Get back to the place you were in when you loved music”.

    Most artists are fucking miserable when they’re producing their greatest works, Rivers Cuomo is no exception.