Liner Notes: Paul McCartney Makes The Bean-Counters Happy

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Liner Notes: Paul McCartney Makes The Bean-Counters Happy

- Paul McCartney's Starbucks-sold Memory Almost Full is on track to move 180,000 copies this week. In unrelated news, the Satellite Party has just signed an "exceedingly artist-friendly" distribution deal with Carl's Jr. [HITS]
- Now that Sporty Spice is finally on board for the Spice Girls reunion, sales of canary-yellow sports bras have spiked nearly 3 percent. [OK!]
- Britney Spears may be dating her drug counselor. It's like the Stockholm Syndrome, but with [ALLEGED SUBSTANCE REDACTED]! [Scoop]

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1:00 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Brian Raftery
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by Dickdogfood at 01:18 PM on 06/07/07
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ALLEGED SUBSTANCE = Doan's Pills?
by Chris Molanphy at 03:46 PM on 06/07/07
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McCartney beating Rihanna and T-Pain for #1 next week will make no one happy except Starbucks, Boomer feature writers and McCartney himself.

I have nothing against the album - it's quite good, actually - but a Starbucks record going to #1 helps no one: not the labels, not the ailing record retailers, and not even the RIAA/retail haters who want the whole industry burned down - this makes music-buying even more of a "lifestyle" activity than it was already.

Seriously, I know it's weird, 'cuz it's actually a pretty good McCartney record, but I'm kind of rooting against it right now.