Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.
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.
Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books.
At least they aren't putting Weezer songs in their books.
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?
fuck amazon in general tbh
We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!
They're indestructible because they are vegan too
Hopefully they remember that chicken parmesan isn't vegan.
I like the joke in the comic better (paraphrased from memory)
"You ate chicken parmesan."
"whats Parmesan, is it an animal?"
"I don't know"
I dgaf what that cunt says.
Pinkerton was their peak. It was all downhill from there.
I would be upset if I paid for an ad. I would probably stop being a fan.
I would buy drinks just to throw at them. Like a lot of drinks.
That’s just playing right into their hands.
Collect empties and fill them up in the toilets. Recycling!
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.
Yeah I was thinking it was Grapes of Wrath. It makes sense, the song's whole point was River's pandemic-era hobbies, and Audible blew up in the pandemic. I feel this rant is just the author projecting their anti-Amazon mindset onto a band they dislike. Sure, Amazon is terrible, but I doubt they would pay Weezer of all bands to promote Audible. Maybe its just my youthful optimism and love of Weezer clouding my rationality, but I feel like this is just another "old man yells at cloud".
Oh, good. So it's not paid stupidity, it's genuine stupidity.
It’s interesting. There are many songs from over 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.
If you're in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.
And if you're a pirate, or if you happen to have a lot of Audiobook CDs, or if you have a bunch of books on audible and want to free them, AudiobookShelf is an amazing self hosted solution for Audiobook libraries
This sounds like a scene from Idiocracy
"Hey, everybody! Thanks for coming out tonight to our concert presented by Amazon dot com's Audible dot com. Audible - it's got what brains crave."
The people on the Windows 95 CD are sell-outs?!
Grapes of Wrath 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.
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.
It feels so bizarre that they would do this, they always seemed so cool to me.
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.
Ever read Transmetropolitan? This sounds like something directly out of that. People going to concerts to hear their favorite bands sing advertisements to them.
With how shitty Weezer is nowadays, that Audible.com song might be their best work in years
Yeah...nowadays...
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.
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.
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!
Somebody needs to invent an IRL adblocker.
It's called booing.
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)
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.
Homeboy went to Taylor Swift and was upset it wasn't like it used to be
What stage of capitalism is this?
I'm finding it more and more difficult to keep track these days.
It's the acceptance stage.
This person just wrote copy for audible.
You could tell they'd sold out to Audible when "Grapes of Wrath" came out.
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
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