Starbucks to Release Sonic Youth Celebrity Compilation?
 

this is on pitchfork, and it ain't april 1st, so i don't know what the fuck this is
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...ty-compilation

Starbucks to Release Sonic Youth Celebrity Compilation
Thurston: "We asked all these different people to choose their favorite Sonic Youth song. Jeff Tweedy, Beck, Marc Jacobs, Portia de Rossi, Michelle Williams ... Starbucks is the new record store, right?"

When Pitchfork called up Thurston Moore for an interview, we expected to chat about his forthcoming solo record, as well as Sonic Youth's legendary 1988 album Daydream Nation, recently reissued and being taken on tour this summer (including, as you know, a stop at the Pitchfork Music Festival).
And we did chat about that-- a whole lot-- and we can't wait to let you know everything Thurston said. But you're just going to have to wait until Monday, because in the middle of our interview, Thurston dropped a bomb...

Pitchfork: Is Sonic Youth working on any new material right now?

Thurston Moore: No, no. We kind of need to record a song for this Starbucks record that's coming out.

Pitchfork: For, uh, Starbucks?!

Thurston Moore: Yeah. We sort of devised this idea of a Sonic Youth record where we asked all these different people to choose their favorite song, people like artists and actors and other musicians and what have you. So all these people, from Jeff Tweedy to Beck to Marc Jacobs to Portia de Rossi to Michelle Williams [laughs], they all chose their favorite songs and wrote a little thing about it. So it's a compilation record of artists choosing songs of Sonic Youth. There's going to be one exclusive song of ours that we'll record, so that's something we have to record.

Pitchfork: So it's going to be one of those things up at the counter along with the biscotti and the disc of Elton John's favorite Christmas songs?

Thurston Moore: [laughs] Yeah, something like that. I wish Starbucks would ask me to compile a mixtape record.

Pitchfork: That would be ... interesting.

Thurston Moore: I love doing that stuff. But you know, it's so funny, because Starbucks is the new record store, right? [laughs]

Pitchfork: Yeah. I guess if you're in there buying a four dollar cup of coffee, the idea of throwing down a few more for the CD seems like no big deal.

Thurston Moore: Exactly, or getting the Paul McCartney gift card, you know. It's attractive, in a way [laughs]. I like these underground bands that only make records and stuff that they sell only at gigs, and it's only available if you go to the gig to their merch table and they advertise it on their site and at different blogs and they'll list all these things like "edition of 50, only available on this little tour we're doing." So if you're a fan you kind of got to go to get the merch.

Well, there you have it. A Sonic Youth album... for Starbucks.

We'll give you the weekend to think that over. Stay tuned for much, much more from Thurston on Monday, when we'll run the full interview.

Oh My God.

It must be a joke...

Wowza.

It can't be true.

Oh babez, if pitchfork says so..

Yeah, but Thurston doesn't look to be serious.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yo7liMsVb40

Thurston on AOL DL. Yet another flirtation with the corporationz.

Hot water.

sellouts!!!! i hate them!!!!

oh man, if it's true that would be lame to have to go there and shell out for a bunch of tracks we already have for one exclusive cut. i expect someone will up it to the international free-box though...

you're probably the sort of idiot who would, anyway.

I don't know if I really believe this, even if they wanted to do you think Sonic Youth has a big enough following for it to have a presence at Starbucks? Paul Macartney vs Lee Ranaldo?

Awww, Thurston's boring, Sonic Youth are boring, the Sonic Gossip section is boring.

I predict there's going to be at least half a dozen more threads about this in the next few weeks:

"So I was getting a medium-sized-no-foam-extra-hot-soy-latte at my local Starbucks this morning..."

Starbucks make better coffee these days than SY make records

THOSE mACCATNEEE phone cards got me a nice chat with my mum. sonic Yoof on it, who cares?

i don't. if they're good enough for HSBC then they're good enough for starbucks.
anyway, how's your mum?

She seems alright, thanks. One leg is giving her a little trouble, but the woman doesn't like the rest she deserves.

ever busy, eh?
send her my best wishes.

I will, thanks.


She hasn't got a clue what Starbucks or Sonic Youth are, and a happier person than us saddos she is.

MORE POWER TO SONIC YOUTH!

I hope they sell a TON, make enough money to keep putting out their own records since they will be leaving geffen, and get a lifetime of free coffee.

and that paul mccartney commercial where he is dancing is just fucking insane horrible!

i am enjoying my life.

sonic youth suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think it matters. Starbucks put out a record by Antigone Rising. Who the hell are they?

I hope they sell some too, can't help but be interested in the song pics from the different folks...but I'm holding in my cynicism a bit right now, I must admit.

I've never, in all my life, enjoyed coffee of any kind. Looks like I'll be heading to the local Starbucks for a cookie or muffin or something in the near future.

Sonic Yuppies?

it's the end of the world as we know it and i dont feel fine

I don't care where SY release their music as long as I can buy it.
Starbucks didn't make it in Israel though. Israeli coffee preferred their local cafe shops.

I wonder what Beck's favorite SY song is

self obsessed and sexxeee

I dont like chain Coffee Shops of any kind, irrespective of globalisation. They just do my head in.
I dont believe this is true, it makes no sense from Starbucks' point of view.

so a mix cd of songs chosen by some musicians, i dont get the hostility in this thread...

and you know what starbucks was a godsend, because one thing that was lacking in usa was coffee shops, like you have in europe. yeah i know its not the same as some cafe in paris but better than nothing. thats my bit of social history / commentary.

I drink in starbucks occasionally, well used too, now im 18, straight to the pub for me baby.

Anyway, I could protest, call them sellouts but what the fuck am I going to do, i'll end up buying the record anyway.

i hate them!!!!! what would arto lindsay think of them? what?!!!!

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

god damn sellouts!!!

I can't believe they're doing this. Whats happening to them?

i don't believe it. thurston's joking.

::fingers crossed::

Surely he must be. I know they are touring DDN to make a bit more money, but surely they are not that desperate?

It's really not that big of a deal whether they do it or not.

It's Starbucks. A coffee shop. It's not like they're putting the cd out on a label funded by Exxon or Halliburton.