Posted 7:07 PM by Gene

If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:

1. The Crainiacs are HUGGING themselves over the TREMENDOUS achievement of a KING. To His credit He did have the sponsorship proceeds donated to charity, it says here; but if I were the moron running, say, State Farm I wonder how many insurance policies my donation may have cost. But then we know the answer, if CEOs were ever honest enough to say it (CEOs? HONEST?): What we lose here we gain somewhere else. Translation: THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED.

2. EXCELLENT NEWS: The no-talents of the recorded...SOUND biz are having trouble getting their tone-deaf fans to pay $1,000 for a concert ticket. CHEAP CHANNEL JR.'s cohorts blame the de -- RECESSION. Of course it would NEVER occur to anyone that charity has its limits, and with the no-talents they may start fairly low.

And even BETTER news: the "concert" organizers are lopping some weight off the pound of flesh they charge for FEES -- however:

"We're training our audiences to wait for the sale that will come later," he said. "Nothing upsets consumers more than finding out they paid full price when someone else paid half of that -- especially if that person ended up with better seats."

Hmmm, maybe the answer is -- MORE FEES!

3. China's BFF Walmart can't make up Its mind how hoity-toity It wants to be. One day pallets in the aisle, the next day, Cartier. Will you Chinese bureaucrats make up your minds before the Party does?

P. S. on 7/12 at 8:30 a. m. The Crainiacs seem to have cribbed from the Wall Street Journals, who offer this note:

As aging musicians gradually exit the stage, few younger acts can consistently fill larger venues the way their predecessors could.It's [sic] not that young listeners aren't going to shows. About 8% of people aged 18 to 29 said they go to a concert once a month, more than any other age group, according to a Rasmussen survey from earlier this year. But considering how many young fans acquire and listen to music, the music seems to have less sticking power. For instance, 70% of the music obtained by 13-to-24-year-olds isn't paid for; instead, it's pulled from peer-to-peer networks, or ripped and copied from friends, according to the NPD Group. "They get so much free content, a lot of it they don't really value," says NPD entertainment analyst Russ Crupnick.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!

(Link via the usual AHTSJournal)