NEWS: Sonic Youth Teams Up With Starbucks For New Compilation

MUSIC: Sonic Youth Teams Up With Starbucks For New Compilation

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:

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?

SELL OUT.

the bile is rising in my throat.

Idols: Killed.

My brother works there. Maybe he can get it for me for free.

i work there. and sadly, we sell out of cds there constantly.

i just wish we could get rid of the paul mccartney stuff. now.

tell me about it, I work there too and every day I hate myself just a little bit more

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."

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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.

I'm torn. I wish I could talk to them and find out their reasons for this.

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.

As long as they continue to make great music every few years, I don't care where they sell it.

fuck you Sonic Elderly.



I still love you.

hell yeah they sold out, every seat every night.

I was surprised when I first heard of Starbucks getting exclusive music, but it makes perfect sense to me.

And if this means they'll be playing Sonic Youth while I'm "enjoying" my burnt coffee, all the better.

at least sell it out of somewhere that has good coffee!!

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 .

Sorry, you're 21. Barely old enough to criticize Starbucks, let alone Sonic Youth.

please pardon my involuntary, biological response.

[goes back to eating bugs and pissing in her nappies in the sandbox]

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.