Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.
Weezer straight up writing ads for audible.com
Submitted 8 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Techmaster@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books.
At least they aren’t putting Weezer songs in their books.
DrMango@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn’t name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!
So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are they actually? I’m so glad I cancelled my subscription.
HolyDiver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
fuck amazon in general tbh
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My wife listens to audiobooks constantly. She uses Libby and hasn’t paid for one in years. Highly recommended.
5gruel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!
TheFonz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re indestructible because they are vegan too
Burninator05@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hopefully they remember that chicken parmesan isn’t vegan.
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love that part of the movie because at the time it premiered I had an acquaintance from university who was vegan. Dude would pass out cold if he stood up too fast. Doctor said that as it turns out, he was doing vegan wrong and he needed to eat meat ASAP to fix the damage to his metabolism. Then, afterwards, if he still wanted to be vegan he would have to supplement way more protein than he was doing before. The contrasting absurdity always cracked me up when they tried to make it as if being vegan gives them superpowers.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The ads are really affecting me. I’m reaching my threshold.
SocialMediaSettler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m so ashamed to be a Gen Xer’.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I dgaf what that cunt says.
Pinkerton was their peak. It was all downhill from there.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 8 months ago
It's like they regressed on Green, but to a radio friendly banger version of Weezer that was pretty good. Then everything after that was just watery goat diarrhea.
metaStatic@kbin.social 8 months ago
is this something people care about?
lyam23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
White album is good.
pirat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Greatest of all time diarrhea?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Pinkerton is good but it’s pretty much just “Weezer does the Pixies.” Listening to Doolittle and Bossanova ruined so many 90s albums for me
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Pinkerton is good but it’s pretty much just “Weezer does the Pixies.” Listening to Doolittle and Bossanova ruined so many 90s albums for me
Bruh I have like, at least two albums in my collection that are quite literally just “Such and such does the pixies”.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah Pinkerton was great, the rest is fine
pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I don’t even like Pinkerton now, Rivers’ sex fantasies kinda gross me out
DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I would be upset if I paid for an ad.
sirnuke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
steeznson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh, good. So it’s not paid stupidity, it’s genuine stupidity.
owlboy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s interesting. There are many songs infer 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.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
hotsox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
If you’re in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.
Lianodel@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
Libby! They also loan out ebooks (which is usually what I use it for). Total game-changer.
Also, as a tip: Check out what libraries you’re eligible to join. I’m in New York State, and despite not living in NYC, I am totally eligible for cards at the New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and Brooklyn Public Library. Between those, and all the libraries in my county pooling their resources, I rarely have to wait long for a book unless it’s brand new.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a great idea, I’m on a 16-week wait list for hitchhiker’s guide right now
anthoniix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Grapes of Wraith is a great song, it’s not some “audible ad”. It’s weird that one of their best songs in years is being characterized like that.
LifeInOregon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right?! And the albums several years old now. The song is one of many written in the midst of the pandemic about the peculiar escapes from life we find.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The people on the Windows 95 CD are sell-outs?!
Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Does this sound made up you? Hard to swallow your favorite band could be so scummy?
Did you know Weezer made an NFT? Yeah, that’s who they are now folks.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 8 months ago
It feels so bizarre that they would do this, they always seemed so cool to me.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 8 months ago
That’s the power of advertising, alot of bands seem a type of way. That’s the type of way that let’s you buy their merchandise and it is manufactured.
ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s not like they’re poor and need the money. Rivers is an odd guy. It wouldn’t surprise me if he considered it some sort of art piece.
mriormro@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’ve been up their own ass for a long while.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ever read Transmetropolitan? This sounds like something directly out of that. People going to concerts to hear their favorite bands sing advertisements to them.
sarcasticsunrise@lemm.ee 8 months ago
With how shitty Weezer is nowadays, that Audible.com song might be their best work in years
Techmaster@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah…nowadays…
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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!
chaogomu@kbin.social 8 months ago
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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Having all of their needs fulfilled a hundred times over alters their sense of normalcy and causes them to be less relatable. It’s inevitable.
chaogomu@kbin.social 8 months ago
That too, but the thing about great art, it tends to come from a place of pain and misery. Artists who tap into that, are rarely happy.
But if they last long enough, and don't join the 27 club, they tend to either get help, or at least find some way to achieve a modicum of peace. There are a couple notable exceptions, who found no peace, and who either didn't get help or didn't get enough help...
theKalash@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Somebody needs to invent an IRL adblocker.
heydo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s called booing.
sagrotan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was at the concerts in the 90s and early 2000s, Metallica, Slayer, Motörhead, Amorphis, Nofx, Bad Religion etc, I don’t go to concerts anymore for about 10 years. They don’t make them as they used to anymore. What shows they were - wow. Even the smaller ones were epic as fuck, like Blind Guardian. No, they don’t do it anymore. This post prices my point once again. ( TIL I’m finally in the “back in my days” age)
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They absolutely make them like they used to and even better, you’re just old and your judgement is clouded, and you wish to return to your youth.
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Homeboy went to Taylor Swift and was upset it wasn’t like it used to be
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I’ve been to quite a few concerts in the last few years and some bands are much better at doing concerts than others. For example I will always show up if Black Stone Cherry has a show anywhere near me because they’re significantly better in concert than their studio albums, meanwhile Black Veil Brides was the worst performance at their own concert with their opening bands providing far more enjoyable and engaging shows than them.
Most recently i attended The Offspring, Sum41 and Simple Plan and holy crap was that a good bucket list concert. Sum41 encouraged a lot of action in the pit as well as lots of audience engagement while The Offspring had a ton of fun audience interactions and silly banter between (and in one case in the middle of) songs.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Just have to hit up the right bands. Superorganism for instance puts on a fucking great show, though you wouldn’t think it listening to their songs. There were at least 3 mosh pits at that concert lol.
pslightlypsycho47@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can only imagine Blind Gaurdian live!
DV8@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blind Guardian still performs live and there’s still many great shows with great artists in many different genres.
MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What stage of capitalism is this?
I’m finding it more and more difficult to keep track these days.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s the acceptance stage.
Custoslibera@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This person just wrote copy for audible.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You could tell they’d sold out to Audible when “Grapes of Wrath” came out.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s when you start spitting on that band.
DevastatedBungHole@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I went to a comic gig earlier this year and they did an advert for sky, I was livid and proceeded to not engage anymore and tell everyone they’re a shill
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
This is why more cool and takented people should be in the public eye. Weezer legit felt, when I was 16, to be the best representation of my aesthetics and values. Writers I liked referenced them. Their music was in ads for stuff I liked. And so my teenage personality was heavily influenced by these shitty people who made good music before I was born (and pretty shit music after I was born).
And that vulnerability and honesty and that highly creative style is what drew me in, in the first place.
TheLordHumungus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then stop listening…
kinttach@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How would this even work? Would the crowd not be booing the ad-song? I can’t imagine a sponsor would want that.
WheatleyInc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My friend went to a Weezer concert recently, he said there weren’t any ads pushed.
FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world 8 months ago
"I love Audible, Get blind drunk and unintelligible, Or get so high its unmanageable, But I get it good with Audible!
The books read aloud are music to my ears, The money spent is the negatives everyone hears, But those amazing voices are like a great case of your favourite beers, Inside my devices are Audible!
Audible Dot Com! The place to be, Audible Dot Com! The amazing titles you’ll see! Audible Dot Com! Its all you need, When you’re drinking beers or smoking weed!
Audible Dot Com!"
- Weezer, a once decent band turned advertising group.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Whatever. Rivers and co haven’t written a great song since the Blue Album anyway.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Weezer is a shitty corporate sell-out band” hasn’t been breaking news in like three decades.
TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was the only video you could watch without buffering for days with the shitty dial up internet of the time. OH OH AND YOU’RE MARY TYLER MOORE. Fucking kill me.
shadearg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was amazed that the Windows 95 stock Media Player could minimize video to a 32x32 icon at full speed! I played it on loop for hours.
BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s pretty sick actually
casmael@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hey talking of disks does anyone have the full version of the innernette it’s gone from YouTube
Funkymatt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
youtu.be/hqi2Jy0UMiA?si=z1N4Yhg4HSONSfVf
With extra win95 ui nostalgia
Funkymatt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or did you mean the tim and Eric skit?
This is the longest clip I could find m.facebook.com/watch/?v=567713083394530
krakenx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s honestly the only reason why I know that they exist. I remember thinking that it was a weird name for a band since people who wheeze can’t talk well, let alone sing.
retrolasered@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Oh fuck I wondered why that was on my pc