Best Buy in Gainesville, Florida has maybe thirty copies of Spoon's "Gimme Fiction" on display at the front of the store

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Big poster too. And Gainesville's a college town but there isn't a great deal of interest in indie music here. Target had plenty of copies too (was doing some big box shopping with the wife) and, for the sake of comparison, they only had one CD by the Beatles.

Spoon didn't get big, did they? I think they may, like lots of bands, have got the OC treatment, but as far as I know they don't have a song on the radio. Is Merge plowing their Arcade Fire profits into a marketing blitz for Spoon? Is that money well spent? Is the new Spoon selling better than, say, the new Malkmus?

For some reason I'm a little fascinated by this.

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

My local Borders has maybe 15 Zappa albums. That's something to be fascinated by.

― PB, Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

i think spoon's already surpassed 50K in sales. anyone with access to soundscan?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Even 50K doesn't seem consistent with a Kelly Clarkson-grade push at a big box store. It's particularly confusing since Spoon isn't some hot new thing. I guess Modest Mouse had a similar arc: consistent and not especially trendy band suddenly achieves liftoff. Except they had a radio semi-hit . . .

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

"Gainesville's a college town but there isn't a great deal of interest in indie music here."

Do you know Krashpad?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

well, i think since spoon's been a huge seller for merge and they wanted to keep them there [GF was *this close* to not being released on the label], the huge push was part of the deal. considering that merge has made a ton of cash from the arcade fire, its not that surprising.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad for Merge.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

The Best Buy in Wilmington, DE has a big display of Funeral, with about 30 copies of the album and a big poster, in the new releases section. Even stranger is that until about a week ago, they had about 10 copies of the Dresden Dolls prominently displayed in the same section. I figured it was b/c they were opening for Nine Inch Nails, but there were no copies of With Teeth around.

― someteenpartying, Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Stewart, I'm new here, and am comparing G-ville to Athens. What's Krashpad?

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I bet the Best Buy here in Tally Ho doesn't have any Spoon, but I'll check sometime this weekend as I don't live far from there. I should ask my cousin and aunt (who both work at the Best Buy in Panama City -- which is actually BB's #1 store for customer service, believe it or not) if they've got a slough.

― Kitten, the body needs it, the body cries out for Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I was the fill in drummer for Krashpad for about a year c.2000-2001

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 24 July 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

"What's Krashpad?"

A great punk band based in Gainesville. Check 'em out if you get the chance - and tell Brian their vocalist I said hello!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Sunday, 24 July 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Fuck Florida.

― afgtdfag, Sunday, 24 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

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