Q forThose 30+?

Question

So Joni Mitchell has also jumped the Starbucks bandwagon.

This article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_en_mu/starbucks_mitchell

Says vet' rocker fans are more likely to be at Starbucks rather than CD stores.

In your own experience, is that true?

(I'm in my 30s & I spend VERY little time at Starbucks)

Answer 1

I rarely go to Starbucks.... I think that's really quite sad. There must be better ways to advertise their music.

Answer 2

I am likely not the best person to answer this since I am neither a fan of Starbucks nor Joni Mitchell. However, I don't think we as the consumer should adopt the "holier than thou" attitude when it comes to the avenues of how music is marketed today. We now live in an age where you are likelier to hear better music in commercials than on over the air radio. You can also forget about MTV as they are too devoted to reality nonsense. Once there was a time when everyone was crying sellout whenever an artist sold rights to a corporation. Now everyone is doing it. Of course Royal Caribbean made sure to edit the part about "liquor and drugs" from theirs. So, yeah, I am OK with the whole Starbucks bandwagon. How else is Joni Mitchell going to be able to support her carton a day nicotine addiction?

Answer 3

EEEEEEEEK!

Macca has always been an artist with an eye on the cash register (John Lennon would have scoffed loudly at him), but it's sad to see Joni Mitchell, who has some integrity, also tie up with Bigbucks, er, I mean Starbucks.

If you'd asked her in the 60s & 70s whether she'd ever agree to such a thing, I think she'd have said "no" pretty emphatically.

You don't know what you've got till it's gone...

PS: Sadly, yeah, I do spend more time at Starbucks than the CD store. But I'm not confessing to being over 30 : ), I've just been 29 more times than I can remember...

Answer 4

I'm just under the 30 line and I go to a Coffee Bean every work day just to get my morning coffee (I don't hang out there) and I generally buy records from the iTunes store (I try to make a trip to the record store a treat and dig in for an hour or so) so I guess technically that would be accurate. I have impulse bought 1 record from the Coffee Bean (they had the Shins Wincing the Night Away before I saw it anywhere else). All in all I don't like it though. Most of the record stores in my area are drying up and it is really distrubing. I think there is one within 25 minutes of my house. Luckily it was the good one that survived, but things have definately changed. Not for the better.

Answer 5

She may be right. In New Orleans, you can buy CD's at Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble or Borders. The unique and interesting record and CD stores have died since the hurricane. I buy most of my stuff online these days anyway from Amazon, because BN and Borders don't have a wide selection, and Wal-Mart only carries the absolute most popular garbage (Rihanna and her f*cking umba-rella etc.) So if I go in Starbucks and they have a decent CD there? I might buy it. I don't go to Starbucks that often because thank God, in New Orleans we still do have fantastic LOCAL coffee shops.

Answer 6

I think a lot of music fans in their 30's are over-educated and under-employed, and I think people in marketing (such as those who work for Starbucks) target this particular demographic by selling cds of folkie-types in their stores ...except for one glaring flaw-- we don't have the money to spend on a $4.00 cup of coffee!

Answer 7

I'm in my 30s- and go to starbucks often (worked there for 5 years). I used to love the mixes they would give us to play- but was always more fond of the ones with Radiohead, etc... or even opera- but not new music by older artists...

Answer 8

I was in another country and bought a muffin there once, but I've been to CD stores more than 12 times although not recently.

Answer 9

Starbucks gives me gas. Lol
I became lactose intolerant
when I turned 30, weird huh?