It's a little weird coming from Bruce, but this new "walmart exclusive" trend's just another nail in the coffin of the music industry. And it's not representing the artists particularly well either

Years of wearing flannel shirts with no sleeves, and people are SHOCKED that Bruce Springsteen is all up on Walmart like white on rice?

Come on, y'all.

Jerseylina: Years of wearing flannel shirts with no sleeves, and people are SHOCKED that Bruce Springsteen is all up on Walmart like white on rice?

Come on, y'all.

I loves me some Bruce, but he has this vibe like he would call the front desk of a hotel and biatch because the taupe towels don't match the chocolate-brown shower curtain.

He's dead to me. Nebraska was an awesome album though.

$pringsteen ha$ $old out. I no longer have a Bo$$.

NightOwl2255:
I loves me some Bruce, but he has this vibe like he would call the front desk of a hotel and biatch because the taupe towels don't match the chocolate-brown shower curtain.

I will preface this by acknowledging my New Jersey heritage and the urge to tease my hair and put in hoop earrings whenever I hear a Springsteen or Bon Jovi song--

You really think that anyone in that band has gotten close enough to a shower to notice the color of its curtain?

Except Max Weinberg. He looks clean.

If he's the boss, I farking quit.

It was nice of the website, in the midst of their hard-hitting expose on Bruce Springsteen's sellout to The Man, to include two downloadable Springsteen song links in the middle of their article.

Bruce Springsteen played the local theater a few years back. Tickets were going for $1,000... until Bruce heard about it. He apparently chewed out the manager and demanded that the price be dropped to something reasonable or he wouldn't play. The price dropped and people got refunds for being ripped off.

In other words, this issue here? It will cease to be an issue once someone tells Bruce about it. This is contrary to how he is known to behave. Someone shoot him an email or something.

this guy has always been an asshole. it's about time y'all figured it out, too.

Great songwriter, but his work is usually best when performed by someone else.

"Baby we were born to ruuuuuuuuuuun....... to Wal-Mart!"

Jerseylina

You really think that anyone in that band has gotten close enough to a shower to notice the color of its curtain?

Um, there are more uses for a chocolate brown shower curtain than keeping the water from getting on the bathroom floor.

/You need to read some David Sedaris.

For the next 30 seconds close your eyes and imagine Born In The USA jingling along as shiny 1984 yuppie chicks in sexy sedans swish through purple sunsets

Now do it again and again and again for five years


Mr. Springsteen relieved you of this particular torture at the personal cost to himself of $14,000,000




thankx bruce we love ya amen

People still buy Springsteen's CDs????? His first album was garbage, and he went down hill from there.

The only Springsteen album I still find compelling is "Nebraska", because it stripped away all the big-arena bombast that clogs his music up when he records with the E-Street Band, and gets to the hard, cold core of his songwriting. These aren't songs for some guido to pump his fist to as he drives his Trans Am. These are stark, brutal songs about people in dire circumstances.

His "Glory Days" are long gone.

Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.

ostcoiloveyouwelcometoc: For the next 30 seconds close your eyes and imagine Born In The USA jingling along as shiny 1984 yuppie chicks in sexy sedans swish through purple sunsets

Now do it again and again and again for five years


Mr. Springsteen relieved you of this particular torture at the personal cost to himself of $14,000,000





I get the Python reference, the rest is lost on me.

Bruce Fakesteen. Always has been, always will be.

Just FYI, folks: Musicians make records. Labels sell records. Odds are, Bruce doesn't make the call as to how the record is sold.

the disc has basically been ignored by the Springsteen camp: no glossy ads or magazine features, not even a well-worded press release.

There's your tip, right there. Somebody got ahold of the rights to some old material, made a record out of it, and cut a deal with Wal-Mart. Bruce has no control over that.

(Sometimes, a band has to take these things into their own hands.)

lajimi: I no longer have a Bo$$.

Alot of us don't right now, it's a Recession.

A great shirt for this news.

(^)

/hot like woah

Where exactly was he supposed to sell the album at?

Perhaps there's an approved list of stores out there that he just didn't see.

It's important that he consult with groups like the AFL-CIO and Wal-Mart Watch before he decides where his album would be available.

After all, we wouldn't want any undue influence of a large, powerful entity brought to bear on Bruce to influence his decisions or possibly cause him any harm.

You know...........Wal-Mart.

FTA: the right of every American to a job, a living wage . .

Yea, Bruce - I'm pretty sure we already have this "right". Anyone can get a job in this country. If you don't think you're making a "living" wage, you have the right to go to school, advance your way upwards within the company or even work 2 jobs to pay for those damn kids you had that I have to subsidize through my taxes.

Bruce has no idea what it is to have to get up everyday and go to work. Life's been good to Springsteen and he has every right to say whatever he wants, but let's face it - if you take his views too seriously on face-value alone, you're a moran.

I'm sorry but the Boss is a dick. I used to work as concert security in Arizona and worked one of his shows. I was stationed on the floor and was there for the soundcheck. Since the doors werent open yet and had nothing to do I sat on a barricade to watch them check. After about 10 minutes I saw "The Boss" talking to one of the roadies and pointing in my general direction. The roadie then came up to me and told me that I would have to turn around and look into the stands. He said that Bruce doesn't like anyone to watch him when he soundchecks and I couldn't look that way untill they were done. I was kinda pissed especially since I was about 50 ft from the stage and off to the side. Maybe he has some anxiety about playing in front of bored arena workers or something, but I still thought it was a dick move to make me stare at empty seats for over an hour.

Pocket Ninja: It was nice of the website, in the midst of their hard-hitting expose on Bruce Springsteen's sellout to The Man, to include two downloadable Springsteen song links in the middle of their article.

Just so you know, I have you Farky'd as "brilliant motherf*cker," and it's precisely because of posts like this.

/now carry on...

Meet the new boss, same as the old...err...meet the Boss.

Aquiring music by driving to a local retail merchant? How very amusing!

"Finally...I got a decent vacuum cleaner at a good price and can start cleaning up the place...
...this line is taking forever, what's the holdup?...

...is that...wait, IS THAT THE NEW BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALBUM???!

dur, dur...da-dur-DUR..DURRR DURRRRHHH!!!"

There are people who buy their music from stores? How quaint.

serialkittenkiller: Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.

Meijer is a union shop that sells CDs.

\You never said it had to have a good selection.

I started beoming numb to the whole sell out thing when every other TV show/commercial featured a Who song. But this one kind of hurts. The guy who wrote "My Hometown" doing a deal with the corp that screwed more hometowns than any other business in America? Fark him

Haven't been in a WalMart in over 5 years---nothing changing that now

serialkittenkiller: Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.
THIS!

mid6000tek: serialkittenkiller: Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.

Meijer is a union shop that sells CDs.

\You never said it had to have a good selection.

So... there you go.... if you live around the five states that have Meijer's then you are in business.

As for me I will still hoist my jolly roger, pull my ship up next to the music industry ships and continue to fire across the bow.

/That was supposed to come off all piratey
// Came off really gay instead

Saborlas 2009-01-14 11:03:13 PM
Bruce Springsteen played the local theater a few years back. Tickets were going for $1,000... until Bruce heard about it. He apparently chewed out the manager and demanded that the price be dropped to something reasonable or he wouldn't play. The price dropped and people got refunds for being ripped off.

In other words, this issue here? It will cease to be an issue once someone tells Bruce about it. This is contrary to how he is known to behave. Someone shoot him an email or something.

1)I don't believe this story. Or there is more to it that you did't mention or don't know.

2)Regarding TFA story: I've been saying it in here for years: he's a hypocrite and after reading this a Wentz, too.

some fans are also crying foul over Bruce and the E Street Band's Feb. 1 Super Bowl halftime appearance as similarly un-Springsteenian.

Yeah. Whoever head of Springsteen playing in front of a stadium full of people?

It's also really odd that someone would choose the country's biggest retailer to sell something. What kind of business decision is that?

serialkittenkiller: Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.

CD's would run $35 a pop and the store would only be open from 9 to 3 and close down for an hour over lunch.

MFL: serialkittenkiller: Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.

CD's would run $35 a pop and the store would only be open from 9 to 3 and close down for an hour over lunch.

LOL! THIS

I'm a fan. And he's usually on the right side of things, often at his own expense (as noted by ostcoiloveyouwelcometoc).

That said, this is a douche move. Yeah, I know, it's not like Best Buy is a union shop either. But they aren't union-busting activists, either. Not like Mall-Wart.

Bruce's people should reconsider this. Failing that, he should turn over half the profits to some retail workers' pension fund or something.

Saborlas: Bruce Springsteen played the local theater a few years back. Tickets were going for $1,000... until Bruce heard about it. He apparently chewed out the manager and demanded that the price be dropped to something reasonable or he wouldn't play. The price dropped and people got refunds for being ripped off.

In other words, this issue here? It will cease to be an issue once someone tells Bruce about it. This is contrary to how he is known to behave. Someone shoot him an email or something.

Indeed. I remember when he played Cincinnati a few years ago. That guy is awesome. Cincinnati had a rule against festival seating. A silly thing brought about by the trampling deaths of 11 people at a Who concert years before. Well, good old Bruce said he wouldn't play unless they allowed festival seating. The city caved in, and allowed it. Then they paid 50 extra cops to be there on overtime to do crowd control. Those lucky cops were treated not only to a great 3 session of the Boss grunting gutturally about what a terrible country he lives in, but also a direct lambasting of their own racist, over-zealous police practices! What a great day, spent with a great American!

He ain't the boss of me!

Tellingthem: I'm sorry but the Boss is a dick. I used to work as concert security in Arizona and worked one of his shows. I was stationed on the floor and was there for the soundcheck. Since the doors werent open yet and had nothing to do I sat on a barricade to watch them check. After about 10 minutes I saw "The Boss" talking to one of the roadies and pointing in my general direction. The roadie then came up to me and told me that I would have to turn around and look into the stands. He said that Bruce doesn't like anyone to watch him when he soundchecks and I couldn't look that way untill they were done. I was kinda pissed especially since I was about 50 ft from the stage and off to the side. Maybe he has some anxiety about playing in front of bored arena workers or something, but I still thought it was a dick move to make me stare at empty seats for over an hour.

And as you have no idea why this request was made, all you have to go on is how you felt about it. Maybe he's been burned by someone taking pics, etc, or some other kind of incident. Maybe the thought you were gonna pull a gun on him, or just didn't like the way you looked.

springsteen hates america

Why is it when someone uses the word "sell out" around me their IQ immediately drops about 50 points in my eyes?

MFL: serialkittenkiller: Someone please enlighten me as to where the store that sells c.d.'s with union employees is and I will only buy them there from now on.

CD's would run $35 a pop and the store would only be open from 9 to 3 and close down for an hour over lunch.

But will they stay open on Columbus Day?

I love the Bruce, but this is just sadly ironic.
However, it's probably just his label selling his work. Label's can make compilations and sell them if they own the rights.

Thats why most compilations are farking terrible.

It's a shame that all the independent record stores that were selling music by springsteen and ac/dc when wal-mart was just one store in arkansas are getting the shaft by them now.Some major artist needs to make a deal that their new album will be sold everywhere BUT wal-mart,or maybe follow Trent Reznors lead and just sell it themselves.