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i can't get over how assholish that is. are they going to follow everyone around, or is it horrendously crippled so that it will recognize what kind of player it's in?
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i don't think coldplay is directly responsible as far as i know.
i mean, not all bands have total control of distribution and rights and price caps.
not everyone even thinks about it to the level of say, fugazi or radiohead.
mostly, it's just about getting it out there and then dealing with it.
i don't listen to the radio (end even if i did i'd not hear coldplay here) so i don't have backlash hate from overplay.
i think they are okay but i think they got caught up in a hypemachine starved of matter more than anything else.
explain smashing puumpkins, first.
honestly, i liked yellow and i'm sure i have it somewhere in here. i like the spoof too.
i have the blow to the head one, i think, and i liked it.
and i don't mind a kid named apple and i don't think it's weird or rare.
now pilot inspektor is a great name
what that scientist one?
pilot inspektor is a great name, FOR SOMEONE ELSES CHILD, it's good mental trauma art, it's too bad Jason Lee is a frikin clam, no?
Coldplay (for me, yah?) grates because they are popular all out of proportion to their talent (but since it was ever thus really I'm saving my abundant rage reserves for something else) they seem mostly inoffensive and bland, like a minivan with wood paneling. I wish he wouldn't put tape on his fingers and write on his hands, intentional eccentricity is super boolsheet.
but do they have the time or room in their contract?
i mean i don't know when they signed up if they thought they would do this with their product.
Much, much more likely that they don't know, care or understand what the big deal is. The lives of the ultra-rich and famous (especially if they are not ultra-rich or famous for being smart) are heavily mediated and filtered. This is why people get all mad, and stalky and murdery about their heros, "Why can't they undertand what my life is like..."
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