pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

man it would warm my heart to click on a new pitchfork review and be faced with a short-story-as-review rather than introductory links and "it has been five years since blah blah..."

― da croupier

otm, this is the sort of human endeavour of which i approve

Love that Whiney was making these posts with a DEP dn

Calculating Bnminity

I still can't get over this fucking Nightcap thing

http://pitchfork.com/news/54930-pitchfork-launches-nightcap-series/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41aCv9sSRAc

hard to believe in two years jim beam has gone from daughtry and rolling stone to majgikal clowdzez and pitchfork

http://www.beamsuntory.com/news/press-releases/jim-beam-lms

can you imagine, concerts late at night, what a novel concept

http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Jim-Bam-Adverts-704x400.jpg

wonder if we can get one of these with bon iver and steve winwood

oh wait bon iver reps bushmills forgot

https://twitter.com/JimBeam/status/473962644307578882

https://twitter.com/JimBeam/status/490514526035378177

It is smart marketing for both parties, dunno why we would be picking on this. Of all things they did wrong over the years.

i didn't realize i was being a bully, sorry

i mean why WOULD one mock astute corporate synergies

because they aren't rock n roll!!

at this point i'd say they've been rock longer than they weren't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zcBBFyzgkI

nonetheless, i still find variations on "COOL brought to you buy BOOZE" funny

cool is usually brought to you buy booze iirc

*by

but a VERY interesting slip there.

pitching the baffler as we speak

dammit i was wondering when someone would figure out the advertorial logic to my typos

I thought late shows were kind of universally frustrating to all concert goers and there seems to be literally NOTHING marketable about this, and you are taking a half-baked unwanted thing and trying to spin it in a positive way but all of it seems completely ridiculous and unnecessary

I mean did I seriously have to fucking type that out

Here's an idea, how about a Jim Beam®-sponsored restaurant event where they take an hour and a half to bring you your food because of the great bonding experience of sitting at a table with friends you love

It's almost like advertisers have no fucking idea what they're doing, and websites are totally at their mercy because no one else is giving them money

rock music has given whiskey plenty of free pub over the years, might as well get paid

Probably half of ILM has been paid by Heineken for articles at some point what's the big deal

the big deal is that stevie finds it absurd and i find it funny

i mean, if you can't see how that's a big deal, well then they already got you

o no heineken got dayo

First James Bond and now this

Did any of you ever know that "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" is actually a song about addiction? Kind of makes its choice as a beer ad even more suspect. Or perhaps ... subversive?

I dunno everyone decided en masse that no one wanted to pay for music so it seems churlish to mock everyone who's trying to navigate through the rubble

wow we're really taking this "corporations are people" bit to an extreme

"yes, yes, i know beer ads were funny in the '80s but not...after the fall"

"now when i see brought to you by pitchfork and jim beam i shed a tear for that poor pitchfork, forced to act like music mags have for decades"

http://abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alito-not-true-o.gif

i think the fact that everyone rolled over w/r/t Converse Rubber Tracks/Mountain Dew Green Label/The oral history of 285 Kent producing events for our million-dollar website presented by TopShop means that no one cares anymore, dogg

people clearly care! i lol'd and got a bunch of "what's the big deal, give 'em a break" static

"I posted something and everyone shrugged it off" = "no one cares"

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/05/nothing-matters.gif

"shrugging off" = "thread ignores the churlish clown" not "thread acts like someone's making an unfair stink"

i mean this

It's almost like advertisers have no fucking idea what they're doing, and websites are totally at their mercy because no one else is giving them money

is not shrugging off

no, it really is

wow you got a funny way of being indifferent

THIS NOTES FAAAH YOUUUU

― da croupier, Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:21 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://pearljammers.com.sapo.pt/img/indifference.jpg

yes, i'm amused by the parallels to the 80s, whiney

part of why i think it's funny anyone's being "look it's hard times, man" about a music mag teaming up with a liquor company to put on concerts