[b9]

So let's applaud Mr. Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and the other Eagles for some creative capitalism, however politically incorrect.

Good for them!

[Blind Eye Jones]

Wal Mart should start its own record label.

[madconserv]

They have probably started a new trend. How many new exclusives will come out of this not only at wal-mart but other stores as well? Shopko,Target, etc.

[End Times Sentinel]

I love my Eagles, but they’re gonna need a whole lot more than you can find at a WalMart to beat the Patriots tonight.

[rawhide]

In cutting out the record company, the band cut itself in for a bigger share of the per-album profits. While it might have expected fewer sales from restricted availability, that doesn't seem to be happening. Wal-Mart's retail price of under $12 for the two-disc album has allowed smaller retailers to stock up on the album at Wal-Mart and then resell them with a markup.

[Caipirabob]

"from a superchain with a bleak record on employee rights and health care."

Translated: "They won't let unions completely destroy them from within"

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Music blogs accused the group of selling out

LOL - yeah those Eagles used to be such outlaws. But good for them, bypassing the record labels and making their own distribution deal. The RIAA members aren't just parasitic and unnecessary, they're an active menace to technological advances and the concept of sane copyright law.

[csvset]

... from a superchain with a bleak record on employee rights and health care.

Bwahaha. The history of the record companies screwing artists is legendary. For them to cry about WalMart is laughable.

[libbybelle]

“it could cost them cool points”
What in the hell is a cool point?
I’ll sacrifice “cool points” for high sales volume any time.

[13Sisters76]

hmmmm...let’s see... A dynamic company, a shining example of American entrepreneurship and ingenuity, brings hundreds of entry-level and growth-potential jobs to a community while raising its tax base, provides multiple goods and services at affordable prices, involves itself in programs and local charities that affect the common good and heads the list for many national charities and health care issues and often is, at least, a second responder in disaster (those greedy bums!). NOW, an iconic band, the Eagles, wants to team up with this simply HORRID, EEEEEVIL, corporation.

Well! I am incensed, I tell you! Alert the pop media and the idiots on the leftie blogs! THIS canNOT stand! Don’t they know that the unwashed masses must buy from organic farm stands and the indigenous native americans?!

I wish someone would tell these left wing morons, idiots and loud mouthed A#$H)*&$s to just SHUT UP.

[Allegra]

I was always a fan of the Eagles and saw them in concert a few times in my youthful days.

Their offending the ivory tower crowd with the "creative capitalism" and "politically incorrect" thing is just one more reason I believe I'll have to buy this CD. ;-)

[ontap]

It seems that Don Henley loses his concern for the so called down ridden employees of Wal-mart when the bottom line comes into focus. Typical liberal.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanksa lot, gpapa! I never should have looked. Now I’ll have that stupid “Desperado” song in my head the rest of the day, LOL!

[uncitizen]

Everybody else get off the gravy train.

[sirchtruth]

Liberals LOVE capitalism as long as they are ones benefiting from it!

[STONEWALLS]

...”from a superchain with a bleak record on employee rights and health care.”

....I could care less about “The Rolling Stone’s” opinion of WalMart...that liberal POS has no idea how ordinary working class Americans live...WalMart has been great for the poor NC county I live in....the place was mobbed Friday and those shoppers didn’t look like they felt guilty about worker’s rights or health care.

[Mark was here]

Creative free enterprise.

Capitalism is a Marxist term, who wants to talk like a Marxist?

[VOA]

“There’s a lesson here in technology, new business models, and
hidebound “progressives.” “

looks like the record companies are headed to “The Outer Limits”
and leaving the sphere of business influence...

We are the record companies.
We didn’t control the horizontal and the vertical, but now...
we can’t even control the volume (marketing).

[MarkL]

I just bought a "Walmart Edition" of a Big & Rich CD that included a live "sessions" DVD. It doesn't seem to be available anywhere else...

BTW, I am not particularly a country fan, but I do like Big and Rich.

Mark

[cva66snipe]

No Felder? No purchase. Walsh, Schmit, and Felder are the real tallents behind The Eagles as well as Meisner and Leadon in the earlier years of the band. Although Henley is a good singer he and Frey held the band back IMO and created dissent and discord. I’d like to see a band of the former and current members minus Henley and Frey formed :>}