Weezer straight up writing ads for audible.com

"Weezer is a shitty corporate sell-out band" hasn't been breaking news in like three decades. Their music video for Buddy Holly came on the Windows 95 installation disc for God's sake

Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.

We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!

I dgaf what that cunt says.

Pinkerton was their peak. It was all downhill from there.

I would be upset if I paid for an ad. I would probably stop being a fan.

FYI this is the song

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Also doesn't seem like it was paid placement

If you're in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.

Does this sound made up you? Hard to swallow your favorite band could be so scummy?

Did you know Weezer made an NFT? Yeah, that's who they are now folks.

https://www.coinspeaker.com/weezer-ok-crypto-nft-album-wax/

The people on the Windows 95 CD are sell-outs?!

This sounds like a scene from Idiocracy

Ever read Transmetropolitan? This sounds like something directly out of that. People going to concerts to hear their favorite bands sing advertisements to them.

It feels so bizarre that they would do this, they always seemed so cool to me.

With how shitty Weezer is nowadays, that Audible.com song might be their best work in years

Grapes of Wrath is a great song, it's not some "audible ad". It's weird that one of their best songs in years is being characterized like that.

Celebrities shamelessly selling out and publicly writing blatant repetitive advertisement? How could they do such a thing?

Anyways, that movie, now also available on streaming services!

As a counter point to this guy saying "Get back to the place you were in when you loved music".

Most artists are fucking miserable when they're producing their greatest works, Rivers Cuomo is no exception.

Somebody needs to invent an IRL adblocker.

This person just wrote copy for audible.

What stage of capitalism is this?

I'm finding it more and more difficult to keep track these days.

You could tell they'd sold out to Audible when "Grapes of Wrath" came out.

I was at the concerts in the 90s and early 2000s, Metallica, Slayer, Motörhead, Amorphis, Nofx, Bad Religion etc, I don't go to concerts anymore for about 10 years. They don't make them as they used to anymore. What shows they were - wow. Even the smaller ones were epic as fuck, like Blind Guardian. No, they don't do it anymore. This post prices my point once again. ( TIL I'm finally in the "back in my days" age)

That’s when you start spitting on that band.

I went to a comic gig earlier this year and they did an advert for sky, I was livid and proceeded to not engage anymore and tell everyone they're a shill

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This is why more cool and talented people should be in the public eye. Weezer legit felt, when I was 16, to be the best representation of my aesthetics and values. Writers I liked referenced them. Their music was in ads for stuff I liked. And so my teenage personality was heavily influenced by these shitty people who made good music before I was born (and pretty shit music after I was born).

And that vulnerability and honesty and that highly creative style is what drew me in, in the first place.

"I love Audible, Get blind drunk and unintelligible, Or get so high its unmanageable, But I get it good with Audible!

The books read aloud are music to my ears, The money spent is the negatives everyone hears, But those amazing voices are like a great case of your favourite beers, Inside my devices are Audible!

Audible Dot Com! The place to be, Audible Dot Com! The amazing titles you'll see! Audible Dot Com! Its all you need, When you're drinking beers or smoking weed!

Audible Dot Com!"

• Weezer, a once decent band turned advertising group.

How would this even work? Would the crowd not be booing the ad-song? I can’t imagine a sponsor would want that.

My friend went to a Weezer concert recently, he said there weren't any ads pushed.

Whatever. Rivers and co haven't written a great song since the Blue Album anyway.

Weezer? More like, Weiner.

Then stop listening.....