Fuck You, Don Henley and The Eagles

[BushOut06]

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAM09029102007-1.htm

Is this true, that the new Eagles CD "Long Road out of Eden" is only available through Walmart? If so, I have to give a big "FUCK YOU" to the band. I will not be stepping foot into Walmart for any reason, not even to buy your new album.

[mattomjoe]

1. I think you can also buy it off their website

[lame54]

3. i think you are missing the point

and so are the Eagles

[Harmonicaman]

2. On sale tomorrow

Or as I heard it last weekend from someone who bagged it from a P2P site last week.

Live by the Walmart - die by the P2P

[edwin]

4. Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

:rofl:

[Elidor]

15. Get outta my cab!

Out! Out!

[Balbus]

21. ...

[Atman]

5. Don't bother. It's gotten pretty horrible reviews.

The last one I heard went something like "The good news is, it sounds just like the old Eagles. The bad news is, it sounds just like the old Eagles." It'd be like Fleetwood Mac trying to release Rumors again. Fun ear-candy in its day, but sounds horribly dated now.

I think Wal Mart and The Eagles are a good fit...cheap, worthless schlock. The CD probably leeches Chinese lead, too.

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[speedoo]

12. I agree. It's blah.

I certainly won't be adding it to my collection.

[JackRiddler]

6. This is MY TAXI and I'll play my own music

You're walking home, buster!

[liberal N proud]

7. There are a lot of politically charged songs on

Wal-Mart or not, they are hitting at the establishment. Title Alone says something "Long Road Out of Eden"

Songs like:
I Dreamed There Was No War
Frail Grasp on the Big Picture
Center of the Universe
Long Road Out of Eden



I am sure the producer is the one who cut the deal with Wal-Mart anyway.

[Cha]

8. I saw that advertised somewhere..

and I thought..:wtf: are the Eagles thinking?

Not.."the whole package"..that's fur sure.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

9. I've got an even better reason,

at least where Don Henley is concerned.

Henley took money from David Brooks to perform at Brooks' daughter's bat mitzvah.

Brooks also paid Aerosmith a million bucks to play the same party. Not sure what he paid FittyCent, who also performed.

How much did the party cost? TEN MILLION DOLLARS.

Where did the money come from? Brooks billed his company for it.

What was his company? A defense contractor that made defective body armor for the military. And billed us for it. And sent the bill via the bodies of mothers' sons and daughters blown to molecules in the filthy, stinking sands of Iraq.

Memo to Don Henley: you're not helping.

On Edit: why does the "p" have to be so close to the "o" on the keyboard?

[texastoast]

19. And if Don is like me

He bit the hand that fed him with that money.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

20. If I understand you correctly

you're saying it was OK for Henley to take war-profiteer money bathed in blood and then turn around and "protest" the war by selling an album?

Somehow, I don't see that transaction as "Sticking it to The Man."

How about Aerosmith and FittyCent?

[texastoast]

23. Depends on what you do with the money

I mean, think about it.

War profiteering is going to go on whether or not YOU take their money. Would it be better to hire a different entertainer (say, Ted Nugent) who will fight to reinstate official segregation, or would that money be better spent on someone who will take the money and support candidates with it who hope to end, say, sovereign immunity for those blood-stained military contractors?

[Hissyspit]

10. Lyrics:

"Long Road Out of Eden," the ten-minute centerpiece of this two-CD, twenty-song album, epitomizes everything that is familiar, surprising, overstretched and, in many ways, right about the entire set. The song echoes the title hit of 1976's Hotel California, the Eagles' defining monument to mirage, money and no escape. But this time the desert is overseas and oil is the new champagne. When drummer Don Henley sings, "Now we're driving dazed and drunk" in a grainy, plaintive voice, it is an entire nation at the wheel, "bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda."

[FredScuttle]

11. Lord Henley of Walden Pond, doing business with Sprawl-Mart

Those devil's bargains are a tricky thing.

Does he really need the money this bad? Why not follow Radiohead's lead?

[Initech]

13. Yeah, really.

I would buy this CD if it were available the same way Radiohead and NIN are doing it. But it isn't. Instead I'll wait a couple months until it shows up in my favorite used CD store.

[aikoaiko]

14. The hate for wally world is strong for you.

I like their fried chicken, saussages on a stick, and lower prices.

[Theres-a]

16. And 99cent tube socks.

The eagles suck anyway.CaptMandrke's post kinda sums it up.

[Bobbieo]

18. Wally World is 8 tenths of a mile from my carporte and food stamps go farther there, too.

and the Eagles are okay by me, but I won't buy their album as I could not hear it anyway.

[TwilightGardener]

22. Out here in Nebraska, WalMart in these small, spread-out towns means viability.

Lots of rural people depend on Wally World. Can't always trek to Omaha or Lincoln.

[texastoast]

17. I copied this from another website

And this guy said it much more nicely than I would.

"Okay, I'm a fossil. I listened to and often enjoyed the Eagles in high school and college. And I've enjoyed a lot of Henley's solo stuff since then, maybe because I've played an instrument, and I've seen the professionalism of his live shows. (Musicians often appreciate the Eagles for different reasons than the general listening public.) Taste and opinions are our rights, obviously, but the tone of this post seems unnecessarily hipper-than-thou to me. Music, and other arts evolve by being derivative. Artists are influenced by and build on the best elements of other artists. That's how art progresses. Yes, I hate to see a band tied to a store. On the other hand, I think the Eagles have earned their place in the evolution of music." - everysandwich

And, Don Henley is an enormously influential environmentalist in this state.

http://www.ramsar.org/archives/archives_henley.htm

http://www.philanthropymagazine.com/Articles/9-5-Henley.htm

[catmandu57]

24. So don't go to wal-mart

http://www.eaglesband.com/ buy it direct. I like it, but I grew up with the eagles.