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When reality reflects The Onion (redux)

hutch
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 22, 2015 at 06:16 AM UTC #
I saw that..


nothing says punk like an airport…

sweetcell
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 22, 2015 at 06:22 AM UTC #
right, and not just any airport.  newark.  clearly the most punk rock of all NYC area airports.
Sidehatch
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 22, 2015 at 02:19 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
I saw that..


nothing says punk like an airport…



and all those cherished memories those punkers had of the fine food there too
for me it was the food, but the bathrooms keep me coming back
Sidehatch
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 22, 2015 at 04:04 PM UTC #
not onion material, but just saw this


I bet that was a rocking show!

killsaly
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 28, 2015 at 07:12 PM UTC #
Kentucky mall St. Matthews closes after brawls involving 2,000
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kentucky-mall-st-matthews-closes-after-brawls-involving-2000

2000???? That many people A: were involved in a brawl and B: were shopping at a mall at the same time in 2015? 

St. Matthews, a suburb of about 18,000 people outside of Louisville, is a normally quiet city that sees no more than two murders a year, McDonald said. ?I?ve been a police officer 33 years, and I haven?t ever seen anything like this before,? he said. ?We always plan for worst-case scenario, but this exceeded that.?


^ so a huge percentage of the population was at the mall at the same time, and fighting???
walk,on,by
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 28, 2015 at 07:53 PM UTC #
you know, this is totally belittling the situation that innocent people could have gotten hurt and damages and all that . . . but i still cant believe, people actually go to malls.  when i went Christmas shopping, it was like, wow, these places still do stay afloat.
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 28, 2015 at 09:38 PM UTC #
walk,on,by wrote:
you know, this is totally belittling the situation that innocent people could have gotten hurt and damages and all that . . . but i still cant believe, people actually go to malls.  when i went Christmas shopping, it was like, wow, these places still do stay afloat.

Are they? I feel like all of them are being "revamped" as "town centers" or something like that. They're all god damn nightmares.
Sidehatch
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) December 29, 2015 at 04:39 PM UTC #
Whole Foods to pay for overcharging customers

Ummm I thought that was their business model?
jrpa
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 01:46 PM UTC #
ßèétſ wrote:
The Offspring just sold their entire catalog for $35 million


Here's the money shot: ?We have some masters like the Bush catalog . . . but we wanted more exposure and you won?t get a more high-quality catalog than The Offspring.?
Sidehatch
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 02:58 PM UTC #
Carlos wrote:
ßèétſ wrote:
The Offspring just sold their entire catalog for $35 million


Here's the money shot: ?We have some masters like the Bush catalog . . . but we wanted more exposure and you won?t get a more high-quality catalog than The Offspring.?

So when they were popular The Offspring?s catalog allegedly produced $3.1 million in net publisher or net label revenue
so since it's been close to 2 decades since we've been popular…why wouldn't a company want to pay 10x the total revenue we made

I just don't know how you could make a profit after spending 35 mil on their catalog
betao
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 03:07 PM UTC #
Especially in the modern age of downloading music for free.
jrpa
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 03:13 PM UTC #
Sidehatch wrote:
So when they were popular The Offspring?s catalog allegedly produced $3.1 million in net publisher or net label revenue
so since it's been close to 2 decades since we've been popular…why wouldn't a company want to pay 10x the total revenue we made
To be fair, the music and movie business has long been a shell game where "net" profits are extremely tiny on paper for tax purposes. Every time George Lucas flies somewhere and speaks at a nerd convention, the cost of the trip is deducted from Star Wars' net profit. The Offspring have sold 36 million albums. The idea that the record label only "profited" between 8 and 9 cents per sale is ludicrous.

That said, I agree with your general point that I don't see how they hope to recoup that much money for it in 2016 onward unless "Keep 'Em Separated" is tailor-made for commercials and I am just missing it.
sweetcell
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 03:57 PM UTC #
Carlos wrote:
"Keep 'Em Separated" 

the name of the song is "come out and play", you MORAN.
jrpa
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 04:07 PM UTC #
sweetcell wrote:
Carlos wrote:
"Keep 'Em Separated" 

the name of the song is "come out and play", you MORAN.

killsaly
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux) January 07, 2016 at 04:16 PM UTC #
betao wrote:
Especially in the modern age of downloading music for free.
True, but there is still money in licensing music for tv, movies, and commercials.
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