When reality reflects The Onion (redux)

[Justin Tonation]

Guy Fieri Wants Out of Restaurant Chain "Johnny Garlic's"

[killsaly]

Kentucky mall St. Matthews closes after brawls involving 2,000
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kentucky-mall-st-matthews-closes-after-brawls-involving-2000

2000? That many people A: were involved in a brawl and B: were shopping at a mall at the same time in 2015? 

St. Matthews, a suburb of about 18,000 people outside of Louisville, is a normally quiet city that sees no more than two murders a year, McDonald said. ?I?ve been a police officer 33 years, and I haven?t ever seen anything like this before,? he said. ?We always plan for worst-case scenario, but this exceeded that.?

^ so a huge percentage of the population was at the mall at the same time, and fighting???

[walk,on,by]

you know, this is totally belittling the situation that innocent people could have gotten hurt and damages and all that . . . but i still cant believe, people actually go to malls.  when i went Christmas shopping, it was like, wow, these places still do stay afloat.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

you know, this is totally belittling the situation that innocent people could have gotten hurt and damages and all that . . . but i still cant believe, people actually go to malls.  when i went Christmas shopping, it was like, wow, these places still do stay afloat.

Are they? I feel like all of them are being "revamped" as "town centers" or something like that. They're all god damn nightmares.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Whole Foods to pay for overcharging customers

Ummm I thought that was their business model?

[grateful]

Verizon to pay for overcharging customers

[Justin Tonation]

The Offspring just sold their entire catalog for $35 million

[killsaly]

Worth every penny...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAlZyajmcIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9NPW3mi8o

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

The Offspring just sold their entire catalog for $35 million

Here's the money shot: ?We have some masters like the Bush catalog . . . but we wanted more exposure and you won?t get a more high-quality catalog than The Offspring.?

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

The Offspring just sold their entire catalog for $35 million

Here's the money shot: ?We have some masters like the Bush catalog . . . but we wanted more exposure and you won?t get a more high-quality catalog than The Offspring.?

So when they were popular The Offspring?s catalog allegedly produced $3.1 million in net publisher or net label revenue
so since it's been close to 2 decades since we've been popular...why wouldn't a company want to pay 10x the total revenue we made

I just don't know how you could make a profit after spending 35 mil on their catalog

[betao]

Especially in the modern age of downloading music for free.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

So when they were popular The Offspring?s catalog allegedly produced $3.1 million in net publisher or net label revenue
so since it's been close to 2 decades since we've been popular...why wouldn't a company want to pay 10x the total revenue we made

To be fair, the music and movie business has long been a shell game where "net" profits are extremely tiny on paper for tax purposes. Every time George Lucas flies somewhere and speaks at a nerd convention, the cost of the trip is deducted from Star Wars' net profit. The Offspring have sold 36 million albums. The idea that the record label only "profited" between 8 and 9 cents per sale is ludicrous.

That said, I agree with your general point that I don't see how they hope to recoup that much money for it in 2016 onward unless "Keep 'Em Separated" is tailor-made for commercials and I am just missing it.

[sweetcell]

"Keep 'Em Separated" 

the name of the song is "come out and play", you MORAN.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

"Keep 'Em Separated" 

the name of the song is "come out and play", you MORAN.

[killsaly]

Especially in the modern age of downloading music for free.

True, but there is still money in licensing music for tv, movies, and commercials.