A Boring Dystopia

That's pretty sick actually

Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books. Which is bullshit if I pay for a book no way should they be allowed to add ads into my books.

fuck amazon in general tbh

My wife listens to audiobooks constantly. She uses Libby and hasn't paid for one in years. Highly recommended.

The ads are really affecting me. I'm reaching my threshold.

I would buy drinks just to throw at them. Like a lot of drinks.

IMO there is no way a musician name drops a product without collecting a bag. The interview with Amazon would also have cost them money to make happen.

Weezer would need to be astonishingly naive to write the song before the agreement was reached with Amazon. Also other comments in this thread detail their past record of selling out.

I listen to quite a lot of hip-hop and there were a couple of years about a decade ago where almost every artist had a lyric about uber.

Yeah I was thinking it was Grapes of Wrath. It makes sense, the song's whole point was River's pandemic-era hobbies, and Audible blew up in the pandemic. I feel this rant is just the author projecting their anti-Amazon mindset onto a band they dislike. Sure, Amazon is terrible, but I doubt they would pay Weezer of all bands to promote Audible. Maybe its just my youthful optimism and love of Weezer clouding my rationality, but I feel like this is just another "old man yells at cloud".

Oh, good. So it's not paid stupidity, it's genuine stupidity.

Also doesn’t seem like it was paid placement

I'm not so sure on that. At the very least they paid him for the interview there, and really I think they probably just made out that they didn't find out beforehand.

It's pretty ridiculous to think that a band that's been in the business as long as Weezer has, signed to a major label like Atlantic Records, wouldn't ask for permission to use someone else's brand in one of their songs.

And if you're a pirate, or if you happen to have a lot of Audiobook CDs, or if you have a bunch of books on audible and want to free them, AudiobookShelf is an amazing self hosted solution for Audiobook libraries

Libby! They also loan out ebooks (which is usually what I use it for). Total game-changer.

Also, as a tip: Check out what libraries you're eligible to join. I'm in New York State, and despite not living in NYC, I am totally eligible for cards at the New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and Brooklyn Public Library. Between those, and all the libraries in my county pooling their resources, I rarely have to wait long for a book unless it's brand new.

"Hey, everybody! Thanks for coming out tonight to our concert presented by Amazon dot com's Audible dot com. Audible - it's got what brains crave."

Welcome to our concert, I love you.

Yeah...nowadays...

Having all of their needs fulfilled a hundred times over alters their sense of normalcy and causes them to be less relatable. It’s inevitable.

It's called booing.

They absolutely make them like they used to and even better, you're just old and your judgement is clouded, and you wish to return to your youth.