Starbucks to Quit Music Distribution, Keep Serving Coffee
[Cult of Mac - News and opinion about the Mac and ipod communities] That’s somewhat unfortunate - Starbucks always had some really good CD collections and compilations to peruse while waiting for your coffee to be prepared. I even admit to buying some of their old Motown and classic soul/r&b compilations, not to mention some of their excellent selection of jazz (folks like Monk and Coltrane lived on Starbucks shelves).
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[Play] Starbucks Learns Bitter Lesson About Music. (Coffee Also Still Bitter): That means the frightful light jazz label that has sported releases from Michael Bolton and just signed Kenny G will now inherit the new Starbucks CD compilation from Sonic Youth. Nice!
[paidcontent.org] Starbucks Continues Entertainment Pullback; Dropping Most CDs From ...: For me, buying music at Starbucks has never been about the major releases”Coldplay's latest is in front of the register now”but about the quirky genre or topic compilations, the re-releases and the series of artists' own favorites.
[Play] Starbucks Learns Bitter Lesson About Music. (Coffee Also Still Bitter): Silicon Insider reports that Hear Music label, which started releasing its own CDs last year, notably by Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell, will get handed over to Concord Music Group. That means the frightful light jazz label that has sported releases from Michael Bolton and just signed Kenny G will now inherit the new Starbucks CD compilation from Sonic Youth.
[Cool Shopping] Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Profile: (It is also lower-slung, allowing baristas to travel over all-important eye contact with customers.) There’s the Clover, an ingenious and expensive—$11,000 a pop—machine for French-pressing coffee by the cup. (So dazzled was Schultz by it that he bought the company.) And there’s Pike Place Roast, a new blend designed to strengthen Starbucks in the world of drip coffee, where McDonald’s and Dunkin’
[Sonic Youth - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet] Sonic Youth news and blogs - June 20, 2008: Sonic Youth go to Starbucks! -- from Entertainment Weekly Sonic Youth Starbucks compilation track listing revealed - NME.com -- from NME.com Join the Boxxet community to submit your own news and blogs or to vote on all your favorites.
[Pearl Jam News] Pearl Jam News: Sonic Youth Sets Track List For Starbucks Compilation: Click for more details on this Pearl Jam news.
[Portfolio.com: All Articles Feed] Tall Order: To complicate things further, in May, investor Nelson Peltz, who likes to pressure companies into increasing their profit margins and, therefore, their stock prices, disclosed that he’d bought a position in Starbucks. Analysts say that he’s unlikely to change things much, both because his stake is small—less than 1 percent of the company’s 730.7 million shares—and because Schultz is firmly in control.
[Hitsville] Sonic Youth and Starbucks, together at last: . The limited-edition CD features Sonic Youth fans from music, film and literature selecting their favorite recordings from the bands voluminous body of work that dates to 1981. It also includes a new, exclusive track from Sonic Youth, “Slow Revolution” recorded last year with longtime producer John Agnello.
[Ideas for Dozens (tiny)] Pitchfork: Starbucks to Release Sonic Youth Celebrity...: Pitchfork: Starbucks to Release Sonic Youth Celebrity Compilation.
[Sonic Youth - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet] Sonic Youth news and blogs - June 15, 2008: Sonic Youth Starbucks compilation track listing revealed - NME.com -- from NME.com "If you're off the grid, I'll listen to you" - Reason Online -- from Reason Online Join the Boxxet community to submit your own news and blogs or to .
[Bristol Automative Blog] The Best 50 Smoothies (Best 50): Breakfast Smoothies...here you find find such delights as "Apple-Cinnamon Deluxe" and a "Coffee Banana Smoothie"(who need Starbucks with these treats!)....
[Putting people first] EMweekly /4: Palestinian girls accept mobile phones from prospective male friends and the Ethiopians decide to license their coffee to Starbucks. Even the “dollar a day” limit of the international poverty line has been upgraded to a buck and a .
[Sonic Youth - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet] Sonic Youth news and blogs - June 10, 2008: Sonic Youth's Hits Are For Squares, And They're Coming To Starbucks -- from ChartAttack Sonic Youth Starbucks compilation track listing revealed - NME.com -- from NME.com A chat with Siren Festival headliner (and ex-Pavement .
[MOG - zztodd's Posts] The sunlight shining through the crack in the window pane numbs my ...: My mom picked it up at Starbucks (I know, I know. Unfortunately she's addicted to that place) and remembering that I was a fan of the genre got it for me.
[money news blog] Rolling Stones rumored to defect EMI for Live Nation: In late 2005, the band also released a special compilation through Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX). Assuming the band does not return to EMI, as this report indicates and the band has strongly denied, the band follows Paul McCartney and .
[Dqmcaritaskip's Weblog] Goldstein's killed standard: The Eagles apprehend Wal-Department store, Athanasius McCartney has Starbucks and contemporaneousness Prinz has the Post boat above Vacation. Amazingly, bay referring to the telecommunication coverage pertaining to the music drama .
[Untitled] Az video blog - May 2008 event compilation: the video is a little bit a collage of events and sorry for not editing that well. Most of the footage are from my video and photos, while others are from my friend Victor Velasco, who uses his PSP camera in shooting videos.
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Posted at June 27, 2008 09:34 AM
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