Going to buy X&Y today?

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What ever floats your boat, Captain Bland!

(Thanks to Alex in NYC for the above)

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

beer and marijuana, yes.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Condoms and beef jerky.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I've no need to buy a boy today.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

ZING!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

More like ZORK!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

nah i'm ok

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Bought it yesterday, one of the few benefits of living in the UK. Why have new albums on a Tuesday? Monday seems more sensible.

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

i might acquire it in some manner today

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Beddo Wettington.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Why have new albums on a Monday? Why not sneak them out on different days in different shops? Why not air-drop them from 20,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific? (This would be good for X and Why Oh Why Oh Why?)

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Why not just bring them out when theyre ready?

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

like cookies

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Why have new albums on a Tuesday? Monday seems more sensible.

The explanation I've seen is that deliveries were done on Mondays, and stores at the beginning of the route benefitted, while stores at the end of the delivery route were penalised (because they were the last to get their shipment). To make it a level playing field, record labels made the release date Tuesday; this would allow Monday to be the ship date, and come Tuesday morning, all stores would have the album in stock wyhen the stores opened. I saw this on The Straight Dope or a site like that.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

i rather buy Apple.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

we need to believe!

http://www.thechurchofchrismartin.com/

― rizzx (rizzx), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to buy some Y&T today.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

http://img14.imgspot.com/u/05/157/16/yt.jpg

Hehehe, I was thinking of them when this thread started.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

we got 60 copies of X&Y in at my store and sold four. one woman (who ended up buying the new shakira) asked me about coldplay since she'd heard so much about them, so i dialed up some samples of the new album for her to listen to and she was like "this is boring." we sold zero copies of the new white stripes.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

mtv and mtv2 are working together to plug the shit out of X and Y. I'm not much of a Coldplay fan but I was looking forward to this as the ambitiously diverse genre exercise, post-success follow up. Wasn't Chris Martin supposed to rap on it about changing baby diapers? Everything I heard though on the MTV album leak special was pretty much more Coldplay. It appears as if they put the safest material on the record.

They played this one song, "What If?" which is an embarrassing "Imagine" knock off but worse because it starts off asking the vaguely philosophical questions like "what if there was no life?" or some such and then morphs into post-break up whining like "what if we were still together?"
I may be mis-remembering what I heard though.

― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

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