If like me you went searching for the new release today and failed to find any, I feel bad for you son. Because guess what? You’ll have to wait three more days for the new Veruca Salt, apparently they have switched the universal release date till Friday’s a week early and without telling any one anything, it just happened.
I feel as though there is a new game afoot in the world of music, let’s call it the every person for themselves and god against all theory of business. Remember how last week there was glitch in Apple Match, when you merged your old files with the new songs you saved, you lost your old files? Well, did anybody tell anybody about it? People just kinda floundered around for a coupla hours and then figured itself out themselves through friends and family.Or how about the advanced way they dumped it on our knees and didn’t bother with a tutorial? That was fun right, I still have no clue what I’m doing.
And now the entire industry told us the new release date would be changed on 7/17, and instead it was changed from 7/7 to 7/11 and it was like the best kept secret on earth. Wouldn’t you expect someday somewhere someone to have mentioned it (I read about it in USA Today, after a lot of searching) but nowhere else. All those fucking rock websites who repeat the same fucking stories about the same fucking Foo Fighters July 4th gig, forgot to mention it. They changed the date and figured, what the hell, every person for himself and god against all. billboard… isn’t there business business? Can’t be bothered to tell us the date has been changed to July 11th because THEY ARE TOO BUSY POSTING “BAD BLOOD” IN 20 DIFFERENT SYLES.
Incidentally, since we’re whining about big business, I called Time Warner with a question about my bill and they charged me $5 to speak to a real human being. Yes, folks, they can’t steal from us fast enough.
Meanwhile, Apple has its biggest roll out in years and includes a glitch the size of California AND doesn’t tell people how to fix it AND changes the release date for new releases, changes it again, and doesn’t tell any one. This is what you get when you play Monopoly.
Incidentally, if you have nothing better to do, check out the TIme Warner will rent you its modem scam. You can’t get cable without a modem and the company forced you to rent one for $3.95 a month, thereby adding $500M a year to their bottom-line. You can read the ins and outs of this 2012 case here.
Every time I write about business I am more disgusted then the time before, We are well past the place when people of good faith may differ, there is no good faith anywhere and Tuesday’s dead.