The wildest rumour on the world wide web this day is that Radiohead are thinking about signing a deal with Hear Music, the label owned and managed by the the powers behind the Starbucks coffee chain.
Paul McCartney is the label's current high-profile (and only) artist, but the addition of Radiohead would obviously alert a whole other generation to Hear Music. The rumours regarding their signing on the line, or not, come from the New York Daily News.
Buzznet reports that Starbucks officials recently met the Oxford-based five-piece in a London studio to talk business. Me, I'm feeling 'Let Down'. A little.
Of course, 'I Might Be Wrong'. Best to be 'Optimistic'. Et cetera.
i assume this isn't true
if it is true then lets see what they have to say for themselves! ;p
Isn't pretty much the main point of Thom Yorke
that hes against corporations like starbucks? Now i know very little about politics but this would seem very hypocritical? Or no? Maybe Starbucks is less of a corporation than EMI or Warner etc?
aww man
this is the same as radiohead doing v festival last year, i suggest radiohead distribute on their own label they set up and release albums when they want and not when told.
also starbucks in a roundavout way gave us nickleback (their name anyway) so thats reason enough?
I think its bollocks
almost certainly
Really
thats does kind of beg the question - why make it a news item foolosh editor type person!
because...
...it makes for good comment-posting and banter and punnery and jinx.
It's being reported all over the place now... on the radio innit.
Oh
ok
:)
four days early i think
If they do this
I will disregard all their political views and block out all political lyrics of any song they write from now on.
Im already shaken after V festival...
What is it
with Starbucks that they're quite clearly one of the worst examples of shameless consumerist globalisation (yada yada yada) yet they manage to woo all the artists that tend to be against their very nature?
Like Dylan releasing that live album through them last year. It makes the bleeding heart wannabe hippy in me sad.
hahaha
that's brilliant.
someone posts this idea on a humerous rip off of dead air space (it's called "dead air spice") and people are believeing it's true!
here's the blog post which must have sparked the rumour.
http://deadairspice.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-nuse.html
yeaeh
them playing V was a shock...and i'm scared they'll do something stupid again and sign for these shits.
please god. don't let them sign to starfucks. bring on a radiohead label.
"!"
starbucks
actually come out well in ratings of corporate citizenship.
simple criticism and one that is impervious to response
theres too many of them
dude...
..dylan's hardly lenin, he appeared in an agent provocateur advert about two years ago.
This clearly isn't true!
With regards to releasing themselves, I'm sure Yorke's said they'll probs sign back with a major for a one album deal thing instead.
A band their size couldn't possibly go with an indie or set up their own label overnight could they? I don't know these things.
No
It would be stoopid.
Unless they released over the internet only.
Which they could and probably should.
i work for starbucks
.
no
way.
no
joke.
I meant there's no way Radiohead will be involved in this
But if you like, no way! (to you)
haha
okay.
I don't for one minute think this would happen
That's all.
Didn't
Bob do this?
from greenplastic.com :
"We have confirmation that the story the NY Daily News ran about Radiohead potentially signing with the Starbucks label is completely false.
Move along folks..."
from wacko.com:
"Radiohead are to sign a deal with McD's"
hmm
this has already been rubbished...well here at least
www.greenplastic.com
hmm
this had already been posted... well here at least http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1805425#r1806539
I always suspected that theyd
sign to warp. Though thats clearly a stupid idea.
Breaking News
Thom Yorke has gone on record:
"Yeh we're signing to Starbucks Records, an imprint of hearmusic. I've actually always really liked starbucks coffee, so when the opportunity came along, we felt we could'nt pass it up."
Yorke continued:
"I'm actually also a massive fan of fascism."
Don't quote me on this.
why is Starbucks so much worse than EMI exactly?
just wondering.
Pah,
crapolla. Put a smile on my face though.
If Dylan did it, you know it's wrong. He's just going plain ol' crazy these days not liking anyone.
But then again, Thom is 'grumpy'. They'd make fun label mates.