Limited edition black iPod to come preloaded with U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

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― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

When's the Rocafella pod coming out??

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK U2. I WANTED A BLACK IPOD FROM THE WORD GO.

DAMN IT.

― DEEBZ (ddb), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH DEEBZ

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the RocBox is supposed to be out in November

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the fuck is gonna blow four bills on a U2iPod?
For that kind of money you could tattoo "I AM AN ASSHOLE" on your forehead and still have money left over for thirty McGriddles.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but it's BLACK.
BLACK as in BLACK power.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad this finally came up. McGriddles may kill you early, but I could eat one every day for the rest of my life. Sausage, egg, and cheese. Gristle and all.

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I would laugh if you could ONLY play the new U2 album on this iPod.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge is back to wearing lumberjack coats and the maple taste is "baked right in." What could go wrong???

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a McGriddle that is equipped to play the new U2 album.

― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

...so you could eat it and poop it out?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

DID YOU KNOW THE BATTERY IN THIS STEAMING PILE OF MAPLE-SCENTED SHIT ONLY LASTS 18 MONTHS??? THAT'S RIGHT: 18-MONTHS!!!
I'm going on a geurilla campaign against this so-called "Brain Eno".

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Su2persize me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant live with or without the black ipod

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

For that kind of money you could tattoo "I AM AN ASSHOLE" on your forehead and still have money left over for thirty McGriddles.

This statement has brightened my day.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

mine too - considerably.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't you morans know that white is the new black?

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

white is the new black, morans.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

WORST. LIMITED EDITION. ALBUM. EVER.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Artists only seem to pull these kind of bound-to-fail stunts when they're already irrelevant.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

and U2 have only just become so?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The True Story of the Merzbow Car

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.apple.com/ipod/u2/images/indexfrontbackse10262004.jpg

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Larry Mullen's. It's looks like he should have hair products. Plus he forgot the junior so they corrected it underneath.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

also The Edge forgot his "The"

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Good God that's hideous.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

THE RED EYE OF BONO IS WATCHING

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU NEED THAT SPARE CHANGE FOR SOME LUNCH, AFRICA NEEDS IT FOR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DEBT YOU RANCID PIECE OF SCUM

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the wheel being red. If the whole thing was black, it would be much cooler. Even the back should have been black; matte black, like one of those hunting knives they used to sell (probably still do sell) in the back of Soldier Of Fortune magazine.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't mind the red wheel. it's all stark'n'shit.

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If the wheel was black and if U2 HADN'T WRITTEN ALL OVER IT, it would be respectable.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh, a charcoal one would also be nice (isn't Charcoal the name of the Apple system font?)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm such a contrarian; I now want one of these so that I can annoy you guys with it.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

My ipod broke after like six months. I still have to send that shit back before the warranty runs out. When I get a new one, I'll probably sell it too.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a black rubberized one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

did you guys see that HP is giving its iPods "skinning" so you can print
(on your HP printer) a new sheath for it. I kinda like that idea.... I hate scratches.. Although the face plate gets scratched still I think unless the template for "skin" has a plastic plate...

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Rollie, send it! I just got mine back in no time and am blissful

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know what, the music to the new The Batman cartoon, by The Edge, is the worst Batman music EVER.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG a black rubber iPod?????

― The Goth of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You can delete the files once you get this, right?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the RocBox will come with a rubberized backing

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I am picturing an ipod that bounces!
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― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

No Ned, the files not only stay imprinted on the iPod but they travel into your years and shoot out your eyes as blazing rays of destruction.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

each one makes you slowly become a different member of the band

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.apple.com/ipod/u2/images/indexfrontbackse10262004.jpg
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~scopatz/comp/hal-9000.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

We must form a time travel expedition and remove the threat from future eventuality!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I DONT HAVE THE IMAGINATION TO EVEN PRETEND THIS IS THE SLAYER IPOD.

― ALLMUSIC.COM (ddb), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"I can't live with or without you, Dave."

― HAL 9000 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

How much is the iPod with Roger Staubach's autograph on it?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

It was only a matter of time until the "U2 vs. Negativland" iPod came out

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

ebay cancelled that auction for the negativeland iPod. here is more info.

― william (william), Thursday, 6 January 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

looks like my comments to this thread got eaten over the downtime

Apple's pretext for removal was copyright violations which is funnier

go to the Apple iTunes store, search for Negativland, bring up the 'These Guys Are From England' album, and check out tracks three and four for something funniest

― (Jon L), Friday, 7 January 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I had forgotten that Jay-Z did a similar thing with the black album and that silly ass phone with a keypad on it.

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

keypad on an ass phone?

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

asspad on a honky?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

Wow, didn't realize the U2-Apple thing went this far back. U2 has even gone downhill with its Apple promotions.

― medelman, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)

Hmm I don't know if I would call it "downhill" given that Apple is really pushing the whole cloud thing.

I *do* find it interesting that Beats, the $3b acquisition, was not an explicit part of this push.

― maura, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:42 (eleven years ago)

...you know, you're right! It's like they just folded it all in.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:44 (eleven years ago)

Latest stunt labeled a "dismal failure": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/11098907/Apple-tie-up-with-U2-branded-a-dismal-failure-by-music-retailers.html

Apparently giving away the new U2 album has only resulted in 6000 back catalog purchases.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:31 (eleven years ago)

How do I remove "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" from my limited edition black iPod?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:51 (eleven years ago)

More like How To Uninstall A Colossal Bomb amirite

― Bouffants and Other Coifs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 14:05 (eleven years ago)

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