Posted on 01/31/2009 10:46:45 PM PST by kcvl
Rock star Bruce Springsteen has said it was a "mistake" to exclusively release an album with US retail giant Wal-Mart.
The musician told the New York Times: "Our batting average is usually very good, but we missed that one."
Some fans complained about the deal, saying claims made against Wal-Mart's labour practices conflicted with Springsteen's principles on the issue.
He is due to perform during the interval at Sunday's Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida.
'Done different'
"We were in the middle of doing a lot of things, it kind of came down and, really, we didn't vet it the way we usually do," said the musician.
"It was something that if we'd thought about it a little longer, we'd have done something different.
"Fans will call you on that stuff, as it should be," added Springsteen.
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Go ahead and import your lead paint toys and melamine contaminated milk. If it saves you a buck you get what you pay for. It won’t matter to your property values when your neighbors lose their jobs to a foreign source and lose their houses and there is nobody to come buy them back.
Look at Detroit and that is a prime example of what happens to a city built on industry that has been regulated and taxed out of business by the government. That picture will be coming to a city near you very soon. You want to support the turd world, you will get their economics and standard of living in your neighborhood.
America don’t make crappy products. American products have been under the watchful eye of countless inspectors looking at safety for decades. The crappy products are low quality imports, which aren’t held to the same standards as American products. If those crappy foreign products were held to the same standards of quality and safety, the cost would be very similar.
And if you think it is ok for your neighbor to be out of work because you sent your money to China, you are unAmerican. Your stupidity will catch up with your job security eventually. Freakin incredible.
Springsteen is and always has been a shallow phony.
Go Wal-Mart! Only in America! My neighbor lost his job and is using his Wal-Mart dividends to pay his utilities.
I urge EVERYONE TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL WHEN SPRINGSTEEN COMES ON!
Tivo and all those services keep track of who is watching what.
DO NOT WATCH SPRINGSTEEN.
(if you have a phone line hooked to your box this means you)
Please tell me where you shop that sells only American goods. I don’t know any retail store that doesn’t sell products from other countries including China. I don’t believe you buy only made in America products, period.
Why do you think that’s a good thing? I think it’s incredibly sad when people no so little about the arts and popular culture..and then boast about it. Springsteen is a legend, whether you guys like it or not. The fact you don’t know who he is says much more about you than about him. If I were you, I wouldn’t go around toutiing my ignorance.
2. I hate to break this to you but cheap things like toys and other easy to make products like housewares and the such have been made over seas for well over half a century. This ain't anything new.
3.As for Job Security, let's see who is better off, the worker at an auto plant in the south owned by a foreign auto company or the guy in Flint Michigan who works for an “American” auto company like one of the big three, but lost his job not because the factory closed but because the company moved the factory to Canada? It is the foreign companies who are building their quality cars in America, it is the “American” companies that are building theirs overseas because of either cheap labor or because they can foist their health care expenses on the local taxpayers (Canada).
4. You will get no argument out of me that we over tax and regulate our industry. Things will probably only get worse unfortunately.
5. There is nothing Patriotic about buying from a company soulie because that company happens to HQ in Detroit, Madison Avenue, or somewhere else in the states. Most of the time those “American Companies” have their actual operations in other cheaper countries where as foreign firms, especially those building high input items like cars, tend to have their operations over here because it is cheaper to assemble them here then to ship them across the ocean.
6.Yeah China has horrible regulatory oversight, but so do we. Or have you forgotten about the problem with our spinach a couple summers ago or how about more recently with the Salmonella outbreak with Peanuts? Or maybe the problem with say Ford F-150’s engines Catching fire in peoples Garages?
7. As for me being “Un-American” when I find a quality American product I buy it. I drive a 2000 Chevy Blazer, which was built and assembled in the USA. I have had no problem’s with her at all and I am well over 100,000 miles on her. When American companies get back to making high quality products, there will be no stopping us.
He is an legend, but I don’t know I just don’t get what is so great about his music. But then again I was born in ‘86. My sister thinks he is great. Listening to his music though, I just don’t get what was so great. Then again I think the eighties was just an awful period for Pop-Culture (though nothing beats the horror that was the Seventies).
86! You’re just a baby! Listen to the album, BORN TO RUN, and come back and tell me you don’t like it.
Springsteen sucks in all ways. Period.
The only reason foreign automakers are operating plants in America is because it makes them more competitive compared to paying import tariffs. True they have provided jobs. But the overall sales of automobiles in America has been stagnant for several years. Carving up the pie hasn’t provided any more jobs over all.
Used to be “Made in Japan” was a joke. America propped up Japan after WW2 and rebuilt industry to help the country rebuild after the war. Who say Americans have no heart?
Anyhow yes, i will agree that many products have been made elsewhere.
But I know of 4 empty shoe factories within a 50 mile radius. They didn’t close because of shoddy workmanship. They closed because the jobs could be done cheaper overseas. Several hundred people had to find other work. No, their wages weren’t big. They had humble beneifts.
But their product turned money around in the local economy.
Now when we buy shoes the profit goes to a CEO bonus. The tiny wages go to foreigners.
I don’t see where autoworkers are better off anywhere given the state of the economy. Detroit is a ghost town compared to their once great industrial heritage. Yes the unions were probably a little too greedy. But environmental laws, safety laws, taxes and operating costs make the bottom line tough. Yes Detroit has made some bad products in the past. But I would challenge their current quality and fuel economy with any company in the world.
A fundamental characteristic of patriotism is supporting your country. Support starts with family, friends, neighbors, community, and country. Patronizing local business isa vital function of community economics.
Supporting local companies provides money for schools and roads. Every time we buy a product from outside our community, or country, we lose that economic opportunity that pays taxes for local support of schools, fire and police. Sending money to China does absolutely nothing for the local economy. Borrowing money to buy foreign made products is economic suicide. The money does nothing for the local economy. You just as well send your entire loan payment to China. Their communist way of life definitely appreciates your support.
the spinach, or was it tomatoes with the contamination came from mexico. although they never really did find out for sure. American food has been generally safe. Occasionally some badstuff slips through. But at least our government is quick to tell people there is a problem. China cares nothing about healthy products for Americans. After all, they are communist.They want to take us over.
But we know the lead contamination in childrens toys came from China. So did the melamine and mercury contamination of milk. Nice to know we saved a nickle on a gallon of milk.
Fact is, we all want the best quality for our money. But if we don’t make things here, how can we guarantee the quality?
How can we have pride in what we make if we don’t make anything? If we depend on a foreign country to make our army boots, and grow our vegetables, what happens if they decide they don’t like our government anymore and quit shipping food and army boots? Look how dependent we are on imported oil. If the muslims decide they don’t want to sell us oil any more what are we going to do since we don’t make anything here any more?
Patriotism is supporting your country. National security depends on my and your support of our infrastructure and the people who keep things working. I have yet to see any foreign countries, or foreign companies volunteer any hurricane relief, or send ships full of food for the poor, or give our soldiers a weapon so they can protect our freedom.
We are on our own. If we can’t help our friends and neighbors there isn’t one country in the world going to step up and defend us. But they will fight over what’s left when we collapse.
The last I looked at my dinner table he had not put one bit of bacon on my plate.
As for being ignorant I count folks like yourself that get caught up in the euphoria of an aging rocker as lacking real substance, try putting together jigsaw puzzles.
Elvis is a legend, Sinatra, The Doors,Hank Williams but the Boss has a way to go.
His halftime show tonight shows he is past his prime.
He was so out of breath he could hardly grunt the song lyrics.
Based on his singing voice at the Super Bowl, this guy better take every penny he can get.
He’s done.
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