Comment on That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.'
ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I’m still surprised so many people had such a strong opinion. Though honestly it’s probably a “vocal minority” moment. I know myself and quite a few other people I talked to were “oh cool, free album”
At the time Bono was bitching about how the Irish Government wasn’t spending enough on foreign aid, while the band had just bought a skyscraper in Dublin and had offshored their business affairs so they no longer paid tax in Ireland.
They’re the PETA of gobby musicians.
myplacedk@lemmy.world 4 days ago
To me, “free album” is like a person handing out free CD’s on a busy sidewalk.
This is more like my landlord going into my living room and putting a CD on my shelf.
(Now someone will tell me about how my analogy is flawed, I don’t care, that’s how analogies work. It’s not the same, it’s an analogy.)
track_stick_baboon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And then your landlord forbids you to remove the CD from your shelf.