According to a Pitchfork interview with Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth will be asking some celebrity friends to choose their favorite Sonic Youth songs to be released on a compilation via .... Starbucks? Don't believe it? Here's the scoop from Thurston himself:
Pitchfork: Is Sonic Youth working on any new material right now?
Thurston Moore: No, no. We kind of need to record a song for this Starbucks record that's coming out.
Pitchfork: For, uh, Starbucks?!
Thurston Moore: Yeah. We sort of devised this idea of a Sonic Youth record where we asked all these different people to choose their favorite song, people like artists and actors and other musicians and what have you. So all these people, from Jeff Tweedy to Beck to Marc Jacobs to Portia de Rossi to Michelle Williams [laughs], they all chose their favorite songs and wrote a little thing about it. So it's a compilation record of artists choosing songs of Sonic Youth. There's going to be one exclusive song of ours that we'll record, so that's something we have to record.
Thurston goes on to half-jokingly refer to Starbucks as "the new record store." Maybe we will see a Sonic Youth / Paul McCartney Non-fat Chai Latte tour in the near future?
greasemeup said:
i can't believe that i am going to buy a cd at starbucks!
If it ends up like other Starbucks CDs, then all you have to do is wait a couple of months (if that) and buy them for significantly cheaper at your local used record store (still sealed as often as not).
hey, i'm all for some unsuspecting Starbucks patron getting turned on to Sonic Youth. no big deal, it is what it is. i bet some of the choices will be interesting.
yeah. i love it when people call sell out. cause you know that if some company offered you millions of dollars you would totally be like "no thanks, it's all about the artistic integrity."
I say just take the sister album, gussy up the packaging with predictably cute/retro/hip graphics and spring that gem on the caramel machiata sippers. Then maybe threaten to sentence Sonic Yup to a lifetime of opening for nickelback.
Where the fuck else do you expect them to sell their CD's? The record store is basically extinct. Why is a big company that sells coffee any worse than a big company that makes records or a big company that sells books or anything else? You people need to stop fighting progress and just embrace change as it happens.
The reality of the matter is you sell out the minute you take a dime for your music/art.
It doesn't matter if its a hip little indie label or the biggest label in the business ..you sign... you are selling out. So what's the difference where you buy the music .
RubberSoul said:
Where the fuck else do you expect them to sell their CD's? The record store is basically extinct. Why is a big company that sells coffee any worse than a big company that makes records or a big company that sells books or anything else? You people need to stop fighting progress and just embrace change as it happens.
Yeah, I really don't see that it's much different buying the record at Starbucks than it is buying it at Borders or Best Buy.
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JUN 15, 2007 02:44 PM