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(ABC News) Dumbass Virgin Records sues Jared Leto's band "30 Seconds To Mars" for $30M, saying the band failed to deliver three albums. In other news, Virgin Records thinks people want to hear Jared Leto's band "30 Seconds To Mars"   (abcnews.go.com) divider line 32
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eyehate [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 02:58:53 AM  
I am going to be the douche that will admit I actually enjoyed the first album.

 
Asa Phelps [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 03:07:12 AM  
jared leto is a moron if he couldn't turn out three discs full of anything at all to avoid a lawsuit.

See also: metal machine music

 
slobarnuts 2008-08-16 03:37:47 AM  
I really couldn't care less about breach of contract shiat like this.

Let me know when this is a copyright issue. Of course it won't ever be.

This shouldn't be news. Of course it is though, free advertising.

Anyone that reads this I really hope you don't buy this advertised album.

Buy Throwndown or something.

 
slobarnuts 2008-08-16 03:42:46 AM  
*throwdown

 
bikerdiva [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 04:04:34 AM  
He should have just recorded a disc full of versions of "Red."

 
colatf [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 07:08:41 AM  
He should get together with Russel Crowe's band, and make '30 Odd Seconds of Grunts.'

 
Shatnerfreude 2008-08-16 08:25:26 AM  
I'm launching a $30 million class action lawsuit to prevent Leto from ever approaching recording devices again, so I'm really getting a kick out of this lawsuit and these replies...

 
The Glass Dragon 2008-08-16 09:20:21 AM  
Love love love 30 Seconds To Mars.

 
robbjohn [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:24:54 AM  
I like this band.

And like Virgin, I wish they would put out a new farking album already!

 
The Glass Dragon 2008-08-16 09:27:36 AM  
robbjohn: I like this band.

And like Virgin, I wish they would put out a new farking album already!


No shiat. They've been touring for A Beautiful Lie for three years now. It's time to put it to rest and record something new.

I believe their first album was better than ABL, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy ABL. I just feel it got a little overplayed. It's still good, though. That first album, though... man, that album is just fantastic on every level.

 
gODDhead 2008-08-16 09:47:05 AM  
Fodder for modern rock radio.

 
phlegmography 2008-08-16 09:48:43 AM  
I submitted this with a better headline, etc.

/shakes fist at Fark

 
Thosw 2008-08-16 10:12:22 AM  
Why the F did Virgin sign an actor's band to a 3 album deal? Did they really think the one "name brand" person in the band with talent would choose the career that had the most work/least potential? Or was expecting to be out of acting work indefinitely?

This is why the record companies are scrambling for money, people. Poor decision making processes.

 
FeedTheCollapse 2008-08-16 10:45:12 AM  
30 Seconds to Mars is pretty bad even by emo standards.

 
KidDisaster 2008-08-16 11:05:00 AM  
1. I don't personally like the band
2. I've helped run a couple signings with them and they are nice guys
3. They are not EMO
4. Stop using that word
5. They actually have quite a few fans

 
MSX-01 2008-08-16 11:09:34 AM  
I liked the band, even saw them live. Leto stop being a buttmunch and give me a new cd.

 
Hank Rearden 2008-08-16 11:43:26 AM  
KidDisaster: 1. I don't personally like the band
2. I've helped run a couple signings with them and they are nice guys
3. They are not EMO
4. Stop using that word
5. They actually have quite a few fans


EMO.

 
KidDisaster 2008-08-16 11:46:05 AM  
MOE

 
The Glass Dragon 2008-08-16 11:50:33 AM  
KidDisaster: 1. I don't personally like the band
2. I've helped run a couple signings with them and they are nice guys
3. They are not EMO
4. Stop using that word
5. They actually have quite a few fans


The guys in the band are super cool.

The first time I met Jared, he actually got my friends on the guestlist because they needed tickets for the show but it was sold out. He looks at his manager guy and says, "Can you get my new friends on the guestlist?"

The second time I met the whole band. It was something like 1AM and the band wrapped the show up about an hour and a half earlier. The manager kept telling Jared and Shannon (the drummer) to get on the bus because they had to leave, and Jared said, "No way, I'm not leaving until everyone who wants to meet us gets to." We got in photos, got autographs... it was really cool.

Jared gets a reputation for being a dick. I personally have not gotten that vibe from him. Yet, anyway.

 
BobtheFascist 2008-08-16 12:51:22 PM  
eyehate: I am going to be the douche that will admit I actually enjoyed the first album.

I'll be the 2nd. I was pretty disappointed in the follow up though.

 
Tony Wonder 2008-08-16 01:11:09 PM  
Add me to the small but growing number in this thread who don't think Jared is a douche. Met him in January after the gig and he was really good, waited until everyone had gotten stuff signed (about one and a half - two hours), shook my hand and told me good luck with playing the guitar (he signed my guitar strap) and then talked with me and others out back afterwards.

 
batsforsteadman 2008-08-16 01:11:20 PM  
i love you jordan catalano.

 
Heffaloo [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 01:51:34 PM  
I generally assumed Leto was a douche, because:
1: Actor
2: Prettyboy
3: Reputation
4: Musician
5: Hated his character on that show.

I am pleased to see that my assumption seems to have been wrong, at least based upon comments in this thread.

 
elysive 2008-08-16 02:06:19 PM  
Jared Leto is a musician? All he has to do is sit there and look pretty. In fact, that's the major fault I see in him...too pretty.

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The Glass Dragon 2008-08-16 04:15:37 PM  
Well, I just spoke to someone who is friends with someone very close to the band. Supposedly they are recording the new album, right at this very moment apparently. They ran into Tomo (the guitarist) the other week in LA and said that they are laying down tracks for it, and in his own words, "There's no time limit and they're not going to rush it."

Maybe the lawsuit will push things along.

 
AgentOrangeDrink 2008-08-16 05:57:54 PM  
Heffaloo: I generally assumed Leto was a douche, because:
1: Actor
2: Prettyboy
3: Reputation
4: Musician
5: Hated his character on that show.

I am pleased to see that my assumption seems to have been wrong, at least based upon comments in this thread.


Ah, but you must realize that The Glass Dragon is like a Duke or Lord of douches, and so his opinion is faulty.

 
Heffaloo [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:17:11 PM  
AgentOrangeDrink: Ah, but you must realize that The Glass Dragon is like a Duke or Lord of douches, and so his opinion is faulty.

That may be so, but The Glass Dragon is not the only person on the thread to have described Leto as nice.

 
The Glass Dragon 2008-08-17 10:11:52 AM  
Heffaloo: AgentOrangeDrink: Ah, but you must realize that The Glass Dragon is like a Duke or Lord of douches, and so his opinion is faulty.

That may be so, but The Glass Dragon is not the only person on the thread to have described Leto as nice.


You know, I blocked AgentOrangeDrink for a reason. You quoting him is only defeating its purpose. ;)

 
Maduin 2008-08-17 02:50:02 PM  
I guess the label feels like destroying something beautiful.

 
thegonz111 2008-08-18 01:13:00 AM  
The Glass Dragon: KidDisaster: 1. I don't personally like the band
2. I've helped run a couple signings with them and they are nice guys
3. They are not EMO
4. Stop using that word
5. They actually have quite a few fans

The guys in the band are super cool.


Man, you are totally gay for musicians.

/cue the "it's real to me dammit" guy

The first time I met Jared, he actually got my friends on the guestlist because they needed tickets for the show but it was sold out. He looks at his manager guy and says, "Can you get my new friends on the guestlist?"

The second time I met the whole band. It was something like 1AM and the band wrapped the show up about an hour and a half earlier. The manager kept telling Jared and Shannon (the drummer) to get on the bus because they had to leave, and Jared said, "No way, I'm not leaving until everyone who wants to meet us gets to." We got in photos, got autographs... it was really cool.

Jared gets a reputation for being a dick. I personally have not gotten that vibe from him. Yet, anyway.


Man, you are totally gay for musicians.

/cue the "it's real to me dammit" guy

 
ferro_man 2008-08-18 01:56:41 AM  
i'll third "first album is really good, the second one is really not good"

but i have met him after one of his shows and he really is a nice guy

 
sadchild 2008-08-18 09:05:45 AM  
A Beautiful Lie - Worldwide Sales 1,500,000+

subby fail

 
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