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Do Bruce Springsteen a favor. Don’t buy his CD at Wal-Mart.
IHateTheMedia.com ^ | 02/01/09

Posted on 02/01/2009 5:04:40 PM PST by slomark

Bruce Springsteen now says he shouldn’t have made a deal to sell his greatest hits CD exclusively at Wal-Mart.

Fans criticized The Boss because Wal-Mart has been accused of unfair labor practices. Springsteen, on the other hand, has always supported workers’ rights.

“It was a mistake,” Springsteen said. “Our...

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To: cajungirl

“...and I keep hoping he doesn’t have a heart attack during his show.”

I kept thinking that, too! I was listening for the ‘thud’ from the other room. ;)


41 posted on 02/01/2009 5:26:45 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: slomark

I grew up on the Jersey shore (same age as Bruce). When young, he was not very political. But once he married the Phillips woman and moved to LA, he changed. He went from a clumsy kid from Highway 9 to movie star favorite.

I haven’t listed to him since “The River.” His music had leftist overtones (ala Woody Guthrie), but he didn’t emerge as a symbol of liberalism until Hollywood turned his.

Another millionaire liberal, willing to give away everyone else’s money.


42 posted on 02/01/2009 5:27:23 PM PST by whitedog57
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43 posted on 02/01/2009 5:28:36 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: slomark

I used to like him before he became political. Don’t get me wrong, he has the right to support whom he wants to support and to say what he wants to say. But once you come out and say how useless the president is, and insult him, then you run the risk of offending 46% of your potential audience.

Every time an artist starts spewing hatred towards people I support, that’s one more checked off my list. I don’t get rid of what I paid for, but I don’t spend another penny.

My list is long.


44 posted on 02/01/2009 5:29:32 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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45 posted on 02/01/2009 5:31:44 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: slomark
Don’t buy his CD at Wal-Mart.

Why not? They're cheaper than clay pigeons.
46 posted on 02/01/2009 5:32:03 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: mathluv
I am not watching the Super Bowl, even for the ads. I don't want to give NBC the ratings. I can (semi-) follow the thread on FR.

tomorrow morning, watch all of the commercials back to back on the internet.

47 posted on 02/01/2009 5:32:06 PM PST by digger48
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To: slomark

I gotta say....I used to be a Springsteen fan in the ‘80’s and I was thoroughly disappointed in his performance. Either his voice is worn out or my hearing has changed, but he sucks.

Very sad.


48 posted on 02/01/2009 5:35:35 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan (I no longer have a President. I just pray in four years I still have a country.)
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To: slomark

I remember him going tooth and nail after tee-shirt vendors using his image. Legally correct, but I thought it peculiar that this man of the working class would go after those poor guys.


49 posted on 02/01/2009 5:35:59 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments
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To: slomark

I don’t make the mistake of buying anything by Springsteen.


50 posted on 02/01/2009 5:36:11 PM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Remember the 3 Rs: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.)
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Sorry, can’t boycott his CD as I would never buy anything with him on it anyway. He doesn’t need my money, and I don’t need his “music”. I bought his first album back in the 70’s, played it once.

It sucked.


51 posted on 02/01/2009 5:37:13 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: slomark
I'm watching the Superbowl for Warner only!!--Go Warner!

The commercials are stupid and mean spirited this year...

.. and I left-(sil's home) during the halftime (purposely left when it came on) & timed it well enough to arrive home just when the halftime was over.

No liberal Springsteen for me.

52 posted on 02/01/2009 5:38:18 PM PST by Guenevere (..........".If you don't run, you won't win".....)
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To: slomark
"Do Bruce Springsteen a favor. Don’t buy his CD at Wal-Mart"

I'll do him a bigger favor, I won't buy his album at all. Let him sell them to the labor unions he loves so much.
53 posted on 02/01/2009 5:39:15 PM PST by FrankR (“Turtle up”, economically, for the duration of the 0bamanation.)
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To: slomark

I’ll wait until the CD is on the half-price table, buy it, and mail it unopened to Bruce.


54 posted on 02/01/2009 5:39:56 PM PST by popdonnelly (The problem with Obama is that he believes his own hype.)
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To: slomark
Do Bruce Springsteen a favor. Don’t buy his CD at Wal-Mart.

Maybe if we ignore him he will go away.

55 posted on 02/01/2009 5:41:22 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages.)
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To: whitedog57
When young, he was not very political. But once he married the Phillips woman and moved to LA, he changed. He went from a clumsy kid from Highway 9 to movie star favorite.

It started for him right before he released The River, when he did the "No Nukes" concerts. But at least back then he wasn't so strident. And he music was much better.

I used to like him a lot, but now he's off my radar screen. Haven't bought record of his since the 1990s.

56 posted on 02/01/2009 5:41:46 PM PST by Rocko (America First -- 0bama Last)
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he = his


57 posted on 02/01/2009 5:43:05 PM PST by Rocko (America First -- 0bama Last)
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To: slomark

I'm guessing they'll be available in the bargain bin soon enough.

58 posted on 02/01/2009 5:46:28 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: slomark

*Sigh*. I just HAD to watch (begrudgingly) the guy during halftime. Husband (lib) INSISTED that the kids and I watch.

He’s ‘past it’....he had a hard time with the ‘drop and slide’ on the stage. I was just thankful he didn’t spout ‘politics’....but I noticed a couple of ‘O’ hand gestures in the immediate audience surrounding the stage. Also noted to self that the cams did NOT cut to the rest of the audience in the stadium (may not have looked as ‘enthused’). JMO.


59 posted on 02/01/2009 5:50:49 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: Rocko

” It started for him right before he released The River, when he did the “No Nukes” concerts. But at least back then he wasn’t so strident. And he music was much better.

I used to like him a lot, but now he’s off my radar screen. Haven’t bought record of his since the 1990s.”

I posted my memory of Bruce’s rise to fame on the Super Bowl thread. Before his first album was released, he was plastered all over the covers of major magazines. He had some great promoters. This was back in the day when we were really into finding our own music—you’d hear an obscure group, talk about it, your friends would buy the music, and there would be a “star.” Bruce didn’t do it that way. I always felt he was a manufactured pop star, much like the Monkees were sold to us as a Beatles-type substitute.


60 posted on 02/01/2009 5:59:26 PM PST by Fu-fu2
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