Consumerist

Music Industry Continues Its Assault On People Willing To Pay For Its Product

noah | July 19, 2007 8:47 am
noah | July 19, 2007 8:47 am

UPDATE: As I was just informed in an e-mail from someone at Warner, the CD Tom Breihan bought is apparently defective. Hooray, Warner isn’t Sony BMG–at least not yet! Now about those unplayable promo CDs… More »


Live Nation’s Attempt To Be “Helpful” Only Prolongs Morrissey Fans’ Anguish

noah | July 5, 2007 5:45 am
noah | July 5, 2007 5:45 am

Today, this e-mail went out to people who bought tickets for Morrissey’s Saturday night show at New York’s Madison Square Garden–which didn’t happen, thanks to the throat infection that’s plagued the singer for the past week and a half (via The Music Slut): *At Live Nation, we want to create… More »


Why Does Avril Lavigne’s Label Have To Make Things So Complicated?

noah | April 25, 2007 5:55 am
noah | April 25, 2007 5:55 am

avrilll.jpgAvril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Thing may be the No. 1 record in the country this week, but were her sales numbers inflated by listeners’ desire to hear Avril sing that she’s not just “the mother… princess,” but “the motherfucking princess”? A MySpace blog post about one Avril fan’s attempts to buy the explicit version of Thing is making us wonder, since it was through that post–and nowhere else–that we found out Lavigne’s label, SonyBMG, is only making the uncensored version of the album available to those who pony up for the pricier CD/DVD edition:

Yesterday I went to buy Avril Lavigne’s new record “The Best Damn Thing” (shut up) for $9.99. They also had a “deluxe limited edition” that featured a bonus DVD for $16.99. I have no interest in paying extra for a DVD I will never watch so I passed, opting to buy the single disc edition instead.

When I popped the record into my CD player I was surprised to hear that I purchased the edited version, the record wasn’t labeled as edited so I thought it was just a mistake. I walked back into Best Buy and asked to exchange it for the uncensored version, they said I couldn’t because it was already opened.

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The RIAA Has A Long History Of Reaching Out To The Kids

Brian Raftery | April 6, 2007 10:28 am
Brian Raftery | April 6, 2007 10:28 am

Last night’s 30 Rock referenced a blast from our anti-piracy past: The 1978 episode of What’s Happening!! in which Raj and the gang are busted for bootlegging a Doobie Brothers concert. More »


RIAA: Out To Lunch <em>And</em> Bad At Math

noah | February 5, 2007 9:24 am
noah | February 5, 2007 9:24 am

Tucked inside the Recording Industry Association of America’s Web site is a defense of CD pricing that proclaims how people who still pay for music are getting a good deal for their money. More »


Bloggers To Become Even More Broke-Ass Than Usual

noah | December 21, 2006 10:08 am
noah | December 21, 2006 10:08 am

The online viral-marketing world had a minor shakeup today, when the subtly named company PayPerPost announced that it would require its contracted bloggers to disclose the sponsorship of certain posts, whether in the posts themselves or via a site-wide disclaimer. More »



Tower Records Employee Morale Declining Faster Than Prices

noah | December 11, 2006 9:13 am
noah | December 11, 2006 9:13 am

We’ve been posting about deals at the going-out-of-business Tower Records a lot lately, but a blog post by Idolator commenter mackro made us realize that we should place a “buyer beware” warning over them. More »


Bought For A Song: Looking For Deals Under Tower Records’ Deathbed

Brian Raftery | December 5, 2006 10:59 am
Brian Raftery | December 5, 2006 10:59 am

Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »


Bought For A Song: Looking For Deals Underneath Tower Records’ Deathbed

Brian Raftery | November 30, 2006 4:36 am
Brian Raftery | November 30, 2006 4:36 am

Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »



Bought For A Song: Looking For Deals Underneath Tower Records’ Deathbed

Brian Raftery | November 29, 2006 3:31 am
Brian Raftery | November 29, 2006 3:31 am

Now that Tower Records stores around the world are closing their doors, we’ve dispatched some specially trained consumer-crazed hobgoblins to the discount bins, in search of a good deal. Alas, all we’ve found so far is a lot of so-so crap. But it’s cheap so-so crap! More »


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