"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions

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Maybe This is Too Cool
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ffs dave

I wonder when "selling out" or being called a "sell out" stopped being a thing. It happened during my lifetime for sure. Now basically everyone everywhere you look in the music business not only is one, but the public seems to not even consider it an option to not sell out, and I think most people dream of being able to be a sell out themselves so much they pardon others preemptively and almost instinctively.

But like in this case, Dave Grohl is already a multimillionaire, does he really have to further prostitute himself for Amazon cash?

It fell victim to the "gig economy", now it's less "Selling out" and more "Get that bag"

they might be under contractual obligation to do what the record label says

🤷 and maybe someone was holding his dog hostage until he performed, but that pic doesn't look like someone who is having a terrible time fulfilling his label obligations

I'm kind of bewildered by it, like there wasn't any expectations but this is the sort of thing a creatively spent band would do, one of their best (imo) albums came out last year they absolutely could've passed on this. I'm hoping they at least put on a dogshit show, "Corporate magazines still suck" on Rolling Stone type move.

Dave is a businessman first and foremost. I wonder how Pat is dealing with this sort of shit.