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, 11 Feb 2012 13:57:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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