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Amazon's Special Thank-You
theodp writes "To commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Amazon.com announced that on July 16th customers will receive a special thank-you - a concert featuring Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Of course, customers will be squinting at streaming video while Amazon employees actually attend the concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, but isn't it the thought that counts?"
Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear. What a surprise.
This isn't deserving of thanks or, 'gee look how kind they are' -- I think of it as an extra service provided by a company. Some will enjoy it, some won't. Why is it deserving of such scorn?
It isn't.
When AOL did this several times over the past years, with the Rolling Stones, for example, did that deserve scorn?
Nope.
Music is highly subjective, but it's the height of adolescent immaturity to slag off Bob Dylan and Norah Jones as crap if you don't like their style of music.
Bob Dylan IS crap (as a performer - decent songwriter though). He sings in a monotone mumbling. I should think that fact that he can't pronounce the words or sing on key could be objectively measured. I can't comment on Norah Jones, not being familiar with her work.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
OK. You can like Bob Dylan if you want. I forgive you. Everybody makes mistakes.
(It was time to burn the karma anyway)
Burn baby burn! Disco inferno!
(Now I'm just being silly.)