Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Kotz Bruce Springsteen Makes Exclusive Deal with Wal-Mart; Devil Worship Next
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:42 AM
Expect Bruce Springsteen's working man cred to soon drop like a subprime mortgage stock. He's been officially linked with the Mephistopheles of the labor movement. That would be Wal-Mart.
As you may know, Wal-Mart's crimes and misdemeanors against its employees read like multiple volumes of the Manhattan phone book. It's been caught forcing people to work off the clock. Allowing white employees to call black ones "nigger." Discriminating against women for promotions. And generally violating so many labor laws that it should have its own FBI unit.
But now comes word that Springsteen has made an exclusive distribution deal with Wal-Mart for the sale of his latest hits release, which arrived in stores yesterday. There's something weird going on here, since the disc isn't being backed by advertising or even a press release declaring its wonders. And the Springsteen camp isn't talking.
But until this is cleared up, we should probably start calling him in the "senator" instead of the "boss," in honor of his spiritual kinship with Bob Corker.
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If anyone reads my posts on Cream then they are aware that I think Springsteen is pretty infalible, so it isn't easy having to defend him against something like Walmart. The first thing I'll say is that yes he is taking Walmart's money, which is blood money. Walmart employees take it when they get paid, and pretty much any manufacturer takes it when their products are sold there, and most are. I don't think that makes them culpable in the same way. Walmart is demonized (rightfully so) because of their global exploitation of their employees. I don't see how Springsteen is further exploiting these people. The truth of the matter is that in certain parts of the country Walmart is the closest thing to a record store that people have. And not everyone is internet savvy and willing to buy cd's online. Springsteen is a Columbia Records artist who has one of the largest paying record contracts in the music industry, in this day and age a tab like that isn't paid easily. Springsteen cd's have always been sold at Walmart, along with cd's by every major artist. Just because the cd's are sold there, doesn't mean that they're being manufactured in a Chinese sweatshop.
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