SOI autopsy - what went wrong?

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Why on earth would not seeing ads bother anyone morally?



You can use this site for free, you know. Or, you know, I could just get adblock but if anyone asked, reassure them that I see dead people ads.


I actually am serious, because ad-blockers would make a lot of the Internet as it exists right now (including this site) impossible if everyone used them. I view ads as a legitimate price to pay for freely viewing many websites, which take resources to exist. It's a bit of a tragedy of the commons which thankfully hasn't actually realized itself: if everyone followed through on the impulse to use ad-blockers, as companies would pay no money to have their ads displayed, and Interference couldn't make money off of people freely visiting it. It would then take enough people paying for subscriptions to pay for the rest of the crowd, or an altruistic owner of Interference, to make this website possible.


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As long as he doesn't go all "Snowlock" on us, it's fine.


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... why wouldn't we want that?



I'd be down with that, as long as it's on a moment I'm online this time. :wink:


Fair. But he went out shitting on an album and that made it worse.

When I lose my fucking mind and decide to take it out in all of you, my rant is going to center around 2 things:

1-How awesome HTDAAB is and
2-How much most of the Avatars in this place annoy me(change it up)

But that day is not today, so my opinions will stay firmly locked up....well, it's only 3pm...




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and I asked Sunny if good or bad and got no answer so I looked here to find him melancholic moody silly mystical and paranoid just like always so I guess he is well
 
There's nothing wrong with my avatar. And the porn ads are gone, now we are back to Subway. Which i do not eat at Subway, so i have no idea why they are spamming me. Maybe i killed someone there.. .. ..entirely possible.
 
For a while I was getting an ad with some wanker who claimed he'd design me a logo for $5 (Fiverrr). But now I'm back to porn ads. And ads for an insurance company I already use.



I'll Design Logo For $5, Says Tool

Have you ever insured one of your victims? Not for yourself, of course, that would be too easy to track down. Maybe insure them and have the benefactor be a charitable organization which has a distant relationship to one of your clients, in which case, one hand washes the other.

Whenever i found out that my (former) lawyer was double-crossing me, i decided to take him on a nice hunting trip. Wouldn't you know I accidentally blew his chin off shooting at game. He's still alive but he's missing the lower part of his face. He has lost a lot of weight though (bastard cannot eat solids) so i guess you could say he kind of owes me - he was a big fat fucker before.
 
Have you ever insured one of your victims? Not for yourself, of course, that would be too easy to track down. Maybe insure them and have the benefactor be a charitable organization which has a distant relationship to one of your clients, in which case, one hand washes the other.

Whenever i found out that my (former) lawyer was double-crossing me, i decided to take him on a nice hunting trip. Wouldn't you know I accidentally blew his chin off shooting at game. He's still alive but he's missing the lower part of his face. He has lost a lot of weight though (bastard cannot eat solids) so i guess you could say he kind of owes me - he was a big fat fucker before.

When I found out my lawyer was double crossing me, I laid a gnarly finger on his sleeve and whispered 'thinner...'
 
I figured out what is wrong with SOI!!! Its made by U2

My wife told me today that she hears SOI songs on the radio all the time (EBW mostly) and she said "If you forget that its U2 doing the songs you realize that this is a really good album. I feel like, you expect so much from U2, so if you forget its U2 they are really good songs."
 
I figured out what is wrong with SOI!!! Its made by U2

My wife told me today that she hears SOI songs on the radio all the time (EBW mostly) and she said "If you forget that its U2 doing the songs you realize that this is a really good album. I feel like, you expect so much from U2, so if you forget its U2 they are really good songs."

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I figured out what is wrong with SOI!!! Its made by U2

My wife told me today that she hears SOI songs on the radio all the time (EBW mostly) and she said "If you forget that its U2 doing the songs you realize that this is a really good album. I feel like, you expect so much from U2, so if you forget its U2 they are really good songs."

:) :up:

You have a wise wife
 
I agree with the point that there isn't enough guitar on SOI. Adam and Larry kicked ass all over the album and Edge seemed very ordinary and out of focus. To me this has been a trend with edge for some time now.


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I agree with the point that there isn't enough guitar on SOI. Adam and Larry kicked ass all over the album and Edge seemed very ordinary and out of focus. To me this has been a trend with edge for some time now.


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Just watching few things on YouTube and noticed every breaking wave love from jools Holland has just over 2 million views I really can't recall a U2 video on YouTube reaching so many views so quickly? I know this is small compared to some "bands" but massive for U2


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Just watching few things on YouTube and noticed every breaking wave love from jools Holland has just over 2 million views I really can't recall a U2 video on YouTube reaching so many views so quickly? I know this is small compared to some "bands" but massive for U2


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So Madonna's new record isn't debuting at #1 for the first time in, well forever. You could easily substitute Guy Oseary's other big legacy client for Madonna in this article and it would be equally applicable:

On the other hand, Madonna’s concert tickets are where the meat and potatoes are for the Material Woman. And there, she’s doing fine.

But what’s happened to Madonna is not new. Her album sales have been in decline for over a decade. She is no different than any other legacy artist trying to sell new music, from Pink Floyd to Mariah Carey to Jennifer Lopez and so on. Teens drive album sales, and they don’t want even the best music from people older than their parents. Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett are the exceptions. I wish it were otherwise. But radio doesn’t want “old” voices, so there’ s no place to promote this stuff. Sirius XM satellite radio is pretty much the only safe haven for classic artists to showcase new work. And legacy fans pretty much just want the Hits. Over and over.

And apparently Madonna's sales tickets are somewhat inflated due to free copies given away with concert tickets (as with MDNA). Sound familiar?
 
I think they know this. I also think they would have given away SOI to everyone who bought a ticket had they not had the Apple relationship.

And Madonna would gave done the Apple thing had she been able to. Only the backlash would have worked to her advantage, whereas it hurt U2's core brand/identity.
 
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