Comments on: BREAKING: Five Percent Of Grizzly Bear Fans Are Total Dicks (Or, How Not To Tell The Musicians You Like How To Run Their Business) http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 22:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Tran http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-1031542 Brian Tran Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:49:42 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-1031542 Hey guys my name is Brian Tran<br>and i want to share with you a music<br>video i did of the song Two weeks by Grizzly Bear<br><br>heres the link<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_gzGqtiYMc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_gzGqtiYMc</a><br><br>if you liked it, please help me out by spreading the word Hey guys my name is Brian Tran
and i want to share with you a music
video i did of the song Two weeks by Grizzly Bear

heres the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_gzGqtiYMc

if you liked it, please help me out by spreading the word

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873992 Anonymous Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:24:40 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873992 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business#c11107544">borntohula</A>: Who cares who Ed Droste is- he is some shmuck with a twitter feed who threw himself into this. The tone of this piece kind of rubs me the wrong way the way it lionizes Droste, and labels the internet as douchebags- you can't unring a bell, and who knows what the "best" way to handle your album leaking- what 3 or 4 months early- may be, but twitter's very nature is going to expose you to "Yo, where can I get the leak?" if you are talking about an album leak- whether your Ed Drost or Ed (shoot- I wanted to say Ed Grimley), uh, Nobody. And just because he is the "Artist(e)," doesn't mean that he's any better or worse than anyone else on twitter. He's just another douche who has a self important streak running through him (not that there is anything wrong with that). I just get a little queasy around this kind of fawning- I'll buy it on vinyl! TWICE! I <3 you! Tweet back, please tweet back...- but maybe I'm just another dick on the internet.</P> @borntohula: Who cares who Ed Droste is- he is some shmuck with a twitter feed who threw himself into this. The tone of this piece kind of rubs me the wrong way the way it lionizes Droste, and labels the internet as douchebags- you can’t unring a bell, and who knows what the “best” way to handle your album leaking- what 3 or 4 months early- may be, but twitter’s very nature is going to expose you to “Yo, where can I get the leak?” if you are talking about an album leak- whether your Ed Drost or Ed (shoot- I wanted to say Ed Grimley), uh, Nobody. And just because he is the “Artist(e),” doesn’t mean that he’s any better or worse than anyone else on twitter. He’s just another douche who has a self important streak running through him (not that there is anything wrong with that). I just get a little queasy around this kind of fawning- I’ll buy it on vinyl! TWICE! I <3 you! Tweet back, please tweet back…- but maybe I’m just another dick on the internet.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873912 Anonymous Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:13:42 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873912 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business#c11121988">borntohula</A>: And I'd say its not retarded, who else is likely to have the high quality files? I'd say its impolite.</P> @borntohula: And I’d say its not retarded, who else is likely to have the high quality files? I’d say its impolite.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873922 Anonymous Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:10:27 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873922 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business#c11131558">janine</A>: Yikes. Sorry to get your hackles up like that- but I think you missed, or are intentionally mischaracterizing what I was wrestling with in that comment- my point was that nobody wins in this kind of situation, or in these ridiculous twitter interactions- not that music should be free, or that there should be no control. I agree that people who found the leak and want the retail quality are getting an inch and asking a mile, and that Grizzly Bear are clearly the aggrieved party here, but that you are throwing yourselves to the wolves when you expose yourself to something as completely wideopen as twitter. You are painting a target on yourself, and ought to expect that pot-shots get taken. This is, afterall, the internet. I myself was recently threatened with cartoon violence.</P> <P>So no. You don't have it straight.</P> @janine: Yikes. Sorry to get your hackles up like that- but I think you missed, or are intentionally mischaracterizing what I was wrestling with in that comment- my point was that nobody wins in this kind of situation, or in these ridiculous twitter interactions- not that music should be free, or that there should be no control. I agree that people who found the leak and want the retail quality are getting an inch and asking a mile, and that Grizzly Bear are clearly the aggrieved party here, but that you are throwing yourselves to the wolves when you expose yourself to something as completely wideopen as twitter. You are painting a target on yourself, and ought to expect that pot-shots get taken. This is, afterall, the internet. I myself was recently threatened with cartoon violence.

So no. You don’t have it straight.

]]> By: ds http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873932 ds Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:24:18 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873932 <p>@<a href="#c11106966">brasstax</a>: David Pogue said it best: If lossless is the opposite of lossy, then is hopeless the opposite of Hopi?</p> @brasstax: David Pogue said it best: If lossless is the opposite of lossy, then is hopeless the opposite of Hopi?

]]> By: Lucas Jensen http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873942 Lucas Jensen Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:12:31 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873942 <p>@<a href="#c11131558">janine</a>: Agreed. I cosign on this. It isn't cheap to make music, regardless what a bunch of home ProTools junkies say. It isn't cheap to tour. It isn't cheap to buy equipment, etc. etc. Why is music not allowed to be worth something when, say, the Friday the 13th remake is?</p> @janine: Agreed. I cosign on this. It isn’t cheap to make music, regardless what a bunch of home ProTools junkies say. It isn’t cheap to tour. It isn’t cheap to buy equipment, etc. etc. Why is music not allowed to be worth something when, say, the Friday the 13th remake is?

]]> By: janine http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873952 janine Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:16:03 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873952 <p>@<a href="#c11120231">Thesemodernsocks</a>: I try to stay classy, but if I could punch you through the screen, I would. Seriously. No. I do not like Grizzly Bear, but I can't imagine why anyone would want to make music anymore... If I have this straight, a musician does not have to right to make a living off of music or have a say in how their music is put out there.... wow. just freakin' wow.</p> @Thesemodernsocks: I try to stay classy, but if I could punch you through the screen, I would. Seriously. No. I do not like Grizzly Bear, but I can’t imagine why anyone would want to make music anymore… If I have this straight, a musician does not have to right to make a living off of music or have a say in how their music is put out there…. wow. just freakin’ wow.

]]> By: Halfwit http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873962 Halfwit Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:06:45 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873962 <p>@<a href="#c11120231">Thesemodernsocks</a>: One would think that if you're clamoring for a band's album you would at least know the name of said band's lead singer.</p> <p>Not asking you to recognize the touring keyboardist, but come on.</p> <p>@<a href="#c11106966">brasstax</a>: WavPack, please. :smug:</p> @Thesemodernsocks: One would think that if you’re clamoring for a band’s album you would at least know the name of said band’s lead singer.

Not asking you to recognize the touring keyboardist, but come on.

@brasstax: WavPack, please. :smug:

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873972 Anonymous Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:59:06 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873972 <p>you're absolutely right. droste has opened himself up to this, and regardless of who he is, there should be no air of "respectful distance" between him and the non-"artist(e)s" or whatever you want to call them, but don't mistake what i said for fawning, either.</p> <p>droste having full agency in his decision to be or not to be on twitter is beside the point. people who got their hands on a free download of an album 3 months prior to the album's release date were complaining about said leak's quality. that is just absurd. i realize that's the nature of the internet, but when i said "they probably don't know who ed droste is" i didn't mean it in a sort of smug-meets-reverence "DO THEY KNOW WHO HE <i>IS</i>??!?" way, i just meant that the way they were pandering for a better quality album was not unlike the way i see people beg for an album to be re-upped on a .rar blog.</p> <p>i realize that album leaks are an inevitability, and i'd much rather people be honest and direct with what they say, but are you suggesting that asking for a better quality one from the source is not in the least bit... retarded?</p> you’re absolutely right. droste has opened himself up to this, and regardless of who he is, there should be no air of “respectful distance” between him and the non-”artist(e)s” or whatever you want to call them, but don’t mistake what i said for fawning, either.

droste having full agency in his decision to be or not to be on twitter is beside the point. people who got their hands on a free download of an album 3 months prior to the album’s release date were complaining about said leak’s quality. that is just absurd. i realize that’s the nature of the internet, but when i said “they probably don’t know who ed droste is” i didn’t mean it in a sort of smug-meets-reverence “DO THEY KNOW WHO HE IS??!?” way, i just meant that the way they were pandering for a better quality album was not unlike the way i see people beg for an album to be re-upped on a .rar blog.

i realize that album leaks are an inevitability, and i’d much rather people be honest and direct with what they say, but are you suggesting that asking for a better quality one from the source is not in the least bit… retarded?

]]> By: KikoJones http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-873982 KikoJones Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:08:04 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-873982 <p>The Decemberists - indie rep/cred = Al "Year of the Cat" Stewart.</p> <p>Twitter is a sure sign of the Apocalypse.</p> The Decemberists – indie rep/cred = Al “Year of the Cat” Stewart.

Twitter is a sure sign of the Apocalypse.

]]> By: Lucas Jensen http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874002 Lucas Jensen Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:38:35 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874002 <p>@<a href="#c11107624">2ironic4u</a>: I must admit that I saw them open for the Books and the Books kinda killed them. It was early in their career, but, man, it was snoozy.</p> <p>Having said that, live does not equal studio, so I am excited for the new album.</p> @2ironic4u: I must admit that I saw them open for the Books and the Books kinda killed them. It was early in their career, but, man, it was snoozy.

Having said that, live does not equal studio, so I am excited for the new album.

]]> By: cookiedough http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874012 cookiedough Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:07:47 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874012 <p>I have the leak, and the album is really good. I've listened to it twice all the way through, but I don't think I'll listen to it again until the album comes out. A lot of the songs are cut short, which is really annoying, and the quality is very, very low. But hey, low quality doesn't get the the way of incredible songwriting.</p> I have the leak, and the album is really good. I’ve listened to it twice all the way through, but I don’t think I’ll listen to it again until the album comes out. A lot of the songs are cut short, which is really annoying, and the quality is very, very low. But hey, low quality doesn’t get the the way of incredible songwriting.

]]> By: enriquez the water bottle http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874022 enriquez the water bottle Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:20:20 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874022 <p>So, they got a FREE leak of the whole album THREE MONTHS pre-release, and they're pissed that it wasn't high-quality enough?</p> <p>Wow, Louis CK was right - everything's amazing, and nobody's happy:<br> <a name="youtube:LoGYx35ypus"></a></p> So, they got a FREE leak of the whole album THREE MONTHS pre-release, and they’re pissed that it wasn’t high-quality enough?

Wow, Louis CK was right – everything’s amazing, and nobody’s happy:

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874032 Anonymous Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:43:23 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874032 <p>@<a href="#c11108715">Tauwan</a>: Haha, I was waiting for that. Seriously, the Decemberists are great live. Grizzly Bear, well-executed but just didn't have the intangibles that make a great live act.</p> @Tauwan: Haha, I was waiting for that. Seriously, the Decemberists are great live. Grizzly Bear, well-executed but just didn’t have the intangibles that make a great live act.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874042 Anonymous Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:42:11 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874042 <p>How could anyone take a nap to the decemberists, it's the most grating terrifying music on the planet. The nasalness!</p> <p>As for Grizzly Bear, wasn't 100 percent behind Yellow House, but from the few spins of this new Valbum, I'm really liking what I hear a lot</p> How could anyone take a nap to the decemberists, it’s the most grating terrifying music on the planet. The nasalness!

As for Grizzly Bear, wasn’t 100 percent behind Yellow House, but from the few spins of this new Valbum, I’m really liking what I hear a lot

]]> By: Tauwan http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874052 Tauwan Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:17:10 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874052 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business#c11107624">2ironic4u</A>:</P> <P>Nap? Grizzly Bear plus The Decemberists? I'm suprised you didn't fall into a COMA!</P> <P>(I kid, I kid).</P> @2ironic4u:

Nap? Grizzly Bear plus The Decemberists? I’m suprised you didn’t fall into a COMA!

(I kid, I kid).

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874062 Anonymous Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:11:02 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874062 <p>@<a href="#c11107624">2ironic4u</a>: Some of us like naps. I don't, but I know that some people do.</p> @2ironic4u: Some of us like naps. I don’t, but I know that some people do.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874072 Anonymous Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:46:36 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874072 <p>Can't really understand why people are so excited about this. I saw these guys open for the Decemberists in Central Park a few years ago and it seemed like the perfect music for taking a nap.</p> Can’t really understand why people are so excited about this. I saw these guys open for the Decemberists in Central Park a few years ago and it seemed like the perfect music for taking a nap.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874082 Anonymous Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:44:53 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874082 <p>wow, this kind of internet dickery is unparallelled. it's like they don't even know who ed droste is, aside from he haz de linx.</p> wow, this kind of internet dickery is unparallelled. it’s like they don’t even know who ed droste is, aside from he haz de linx.

]]> By: brasstax http://idolator.com/5163546/breaking-five-percent-of-grizzly-bear-fans-are-total-dicks-or-how-not-to-tell-the-musicians-you-like-how-to-run-their-business/comment-page-1#comment-874092 brasstax Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:28:43 +0000 http://5ffff8ff8d91449ecf660d4a2c1f861f#comment-874092 <p>Anyone on the internet who incorporates the word 'lossy' into a discussion of digitized music automatically goes into the douche column. It's almost always followed up with a request for FLAC.</p> Anyone on the internet who incorporates the word ‘lossy’ into a discussion of digitized music automatically goes into the douche column. It’s almost always followed up with a request for FLAC.

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