#selling albums

[hawkinsbnbg]

It was a well-known secret that Jonathan Byers sold Steve Harrington’s photos at cutthroat prices to the students of Hawkins High.

People wanted to get mad at it but a picture of shirtless Steve in tiny green shorts was enough to silence their protests.

Although his buyers ranged from all genders, Jonathan wasn’t surprised at all. Because he, too, was a victim of that Harrington Charm—the very reason he had started collecting every picture of Steve in the first place.

His side business was just a front for him to do so without being harrassed by Tommy H. who, ironically, was one of his regulars.

And why was it a well-known secret?

Well, because Steve had no idea about it.

In a rare sense of solidarity, the whole school had joined forces and done their best to keep their king out of the loop.

(Even Eddie ‘The Freak’ Munson—who loved to run his mouth—seemed to understand the gravity of the situation and managed to keep the secret.)

Jonathan had never enjoyed photography more in his life.

When Steve eventually figured it out, he was surprisingly willing to let Jonathan take more… audacious photos of him.

Suffice to say, the profit had skyrocketed once Jonathan found the right group of customers.

(i.e. Eddie Munson had paid for the Bunny Collection with three bags of weeds, Tommy H. had paid a hefty amount for more Stockings, and Billy Hargrove kept coming back for Higheels & Lipstick.)

[thewhizzyhead]

how genderbending the warriors (2024) is done not for the sole sake of "bad-assery"

okay here we go feminist ramble time for our newest chick on the block: warriors. now i'll be honest, prior to listening to the album, when i first heard that the warriors main girls were originally dudes in the movie and the novel, i thought that the decision for the genderbending, in lmm's perspective, were from the following: 1.) girl power move in like a very basic meaning of the word "bad-ass" 2.) simply a twist on a cult movie about big gang bros loved by the film bros, and 3.) a way to have the schuyler sisters back together gjfkdfldf

but when i read more about warriors and its development and how lmm took inspiration from the gamergate controversies of 2014-2015 aka among the peak of gamerbro misogyny campaigns, that's when i realized that Oh Shit Is Serious - because adapting a story about a group being framed and targeted and harassed for something they are accused of doing without any substantial proof other than a man screaming "THE WARRIORS SHOT CYYYYRUUS" with 21st century misogyny campaigns in mind makes the theme of fighting back a lot more complicated and a lot more resonant, going beyond just marketing a cast you can call "badass"

take the hurricanes' quiet girls, for example. the hurricanes (concept album version) is the only gang that lets the warriors off the hook and with a stern warning: quiet girls don't make it home. here, the hurricanes berate the warriors for not saying shit or attempting to defend themselves from accusations they know well aren't true. THIS MESSAGE IN PARTICULAR is what stays and influences ajax, fox, and swan til the very end of their stories.

literally one song after this does ajax show how easily she resonated with the hurricanes' lesson by finally sticking with her gut and actually choosing to fight back against both the baseball furies AND against the sleazy undercover cop. the latter encounter is one of the instances that really solidifies the recontextualization of the story because in the OG movie, ajax (a dude) WAS the sleazy fuck up harassing a woman in a park - and now with the literal character switch, ajax goes from being just a rebellious gangbro dude bro into someone whose want to fight is warranted. such a want to fight is seen in fox seeing as fox is the first to comment on the quiet girls scene and that, in the concept album, she is the one that instigates the rumble against the police in union square - saying that she is sick of being afraid of them and their 'fuckin powder blue' colors (also notice how she is the only warrior that really does say fuck the cops i think that's cool BUT I'LL TALK ABOUT FOX MORE NEXT TIME)

to a less obvious extent, swan also gets the receiving end of this recurring theme - by the album's finale, the usually violence-averse caution-first interim leader becomes a lot fiercer in protecting her crew. but perhaps among what i consider to be the biggest recontextualized change in the feminist sense is MERCY and her motivations to join the warriors in the first place. according to the wiki, her attraction to swan and the warriors and um seeing the orphans as wimps is what led her to switch sides BUT IN THE CONCEPT ALBUM, mercy's motivation to become a warrior is deepened, rooted in admiration rather than attraction - wanting to be like those women who hold their head up high. and again, we see this in Sick of Runnin' when she takes part in the rumble, finding her bravery within their ranks as they fight back. here, mercy becomes less of a swan tagalong and more of someone that wants what the warriors have: pride.

of course now that i type this out i realize that warriors is not based solely on the feminist rhetoric as with their theme of hope amidst adversity, the story is more intersectional and rooted in community struggle and wanting for more than that. but nonetheless, i genuinely believe that the twt filmbros arguments on why the genders should not have been changed in the first place just for "woke" points is kinda like,,,very shortsighted because not only does the narrative of women narrowly escaping unwarranted accusations actually fucking fit, but the act of learning to fight back amidst all odds - be it that of disbelieving, predatory men or the power of oppressive pigs - stays resonant for women yesterday, today, and the days to come.

ultimately, warriors (2024) is not solely a tale of female badassery - rather, it is a tale of the need for such "female badassery" in the face of past and present realities, which is why it somehow fucking worked.

[shroomerr]

Oh, help me God, this hellboy got me coming back for more

reblogs super appreciated !!! close-ups under the cut !

[transmechanicus]

The audacity of well established bands to only sell merch for their most recent album. You bastards, you fiends, your peak popularity was in 2007, sell me a tshirt with old album art for the love of god.

[theseulgis]

Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Chill Kill' MV

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔐𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔩 𝔞𝔩𝔟𝔲𝔪 𝔞𝔯𝔱

𝔖𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔢𝔯 - 𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔒𝔣 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔏𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔶 ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔩𝔩

𝔖𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔩𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔞 - 𝔄𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔢 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔐𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔢𝔩 𝔚𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔫

𝔐𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔱𝔥 - 𝔓𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔖𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔰… 𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔚𝔥𝔬'𝔰 𝔅𝔲𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤? 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔈𝔡 ℜ𝔢𝔭𝔨𝔞

[nicollekidman]

i’m laughing so fucking hard i cant breathe like “wow these songs are overwritten and so repetitive that’s okay some of them are fun!” and then arbitrarily two hours later there are 13 more. jesus christ.

[warningsine]

GIRLS5EVA • Summer Dutkowsky

[faunandfloraas]

Like who is planning shit at jype- what bright spark went okay we'll do a Japanese album- promote it for about 14 seconds before we announce the next comeback which is dropping also in about 14 seconds. Also dropping tour dates suddenly and giving some people only a couple days before ticketing opens. Okay and now we'll drop /another/ batch of merch in the midst of that. Like, I know they're money grubbing capitalists and everything, but maybe chill out a little bit and give people a tiny amount of time to process?

[midweastindigo]

twenty one pilots | blurryface | 2015 52:23 | TRACKS: 14 | MAY 17

(self-titled) (rab) (vessel) (trench) (sai) (clancy) (singles)

[sadbeautifutragic]

the fact that people online are furious over taylor simply doing her job and trying to extend ttpd's stay at the top of the chart is truly laughable

[jakeperalta]

and when we get the taylor swift holiday collection (taylor's version). then you will see

[isbergillustration]

hey, so this is a bit of a weird question maybe but ive been trying to track down the artist of some art I found and really like and youre the only lead ive got. needless to say im very bad at this. so, did you draw this?

That’s a linocut I made a couple of years ago, yeah. Why? It shouldn’t have been posted anywhere not tied to my username but I guess people do without my permission anyway. Why do you ask? (And where did you find it? This is the unfinished version without the text carved into the banner section)

[fly-the-pattern]

[traderrock]

The Cult - Love (1985).

Full album playlist in link above.

[future-crab]

I love the line, "They sell presentable, young and so ingestible, sterile and collectible, safe, and I can't stand it," SO much. It really gets at the heart of what so much of Danger Days is trying to say imo. And I especially love the sort of visceral note in the phrase "young and so ingestible" - like obviously the image of art and artist as something to be consumed has been around for ages and it doesn't have to evoke anything so literal as the audience wanting to physically eat the band, but it certainly calls that to mind for me, and the idea that the music industry (and capitalism more broadly) exists to facilitate and encourage that desire is just... chef's kiss.