CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Paul McCartney hasn't just signed on to create an album for Starbucks -- it appears he left Capitol Records after 43 years to do so.
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new media conglomerate also serves beverages
awesome idea. that might actually convince me to go get myself a triple venti whatever they're called.
that was a lie. if you start hiring celebrities just to serve me coffee, it won't actually convince me to come in and drink it.
except if you actually hire *Starbuck* from The Best Show Ever Battlestar Galactica. Then I will come in every day.
I'm sorry, maybe it's the California sun, but I'm confused: Is this news about Battlestar Galactica or is it about NOT Battlestar Galactica?
i sort of want it to live outside the BSG/non-BSG continuum, due to it actually being about stupid bullshit—coffee companies, aged musical celebrities, corporate takeover of culture—but in the end it all comes back to BSG, doesn't it?
does this speak more to the growing power and influence of starfuckers OR does it speak to the desperate whorishness of paul mcfuckney?
Also. REALLY?
Even so, more people visit Starbucks every day than visit record stores so the distribution scheme is pretty solid.
Also, why is anyone shedding tears as if Capitol Records was some bastion of indie ethics? Capitol, Starbucks, Goodyear, whatever...it's all coporate culture so why care?
I think there is a dark matter/black hole theory in Physics that states that all things that suck will eventually gravitate towards each other. Thus, it was only inevitable that Paul McCartney and Starbucks would team up together. One can only wonder who the next washed up pompous blow-hard rock star will be to sign to the Starbucks label. Odds on favorites are Bob Dylan and Lou Reed (yeah, I just dissed Lou Reed. Please don't embarrass yourself by defending him).
He was going to work a couple days at various locations. There's something exciting about the idea of of getting a Triple Venti Soy Latte from a BEATLE!!