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How Much (For) Music? By Stephen Macaulay

Whether it is Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams (Come True)” for T.J. Maxx or Sabrina Carpenter’s “Expresso” for Target—and a multitude in between—the connection between popular music and what is hoped-to-be popular products that result in purchase is something that has long been in play....

#advertising #MusicCatalogSales #NeilYoung #publishing #sellingout #TheWho #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/how-much-for-music

The Hard Times – Punk News Comin’ Your Way! [Unofficial]May 9

Aging Punk Worried He’s Getting Too Old to Sell Out

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/music/punk-hardcore/aging-punk-worried-hes-getting-too-old-to-sell-out/

blog.TO Apr 12

People in Toronto are obsessing over secretive new pizza shop that keeps selling out
A Toronto ghost kitchen churning out Detroit-style pizzas has been the talk of the Junction for the past month, but its story actually starts about two decades ago.When Profound Pizza founder, Colin Breen, was laid off from his corporate job working for a major grocery store chain in 2024, his friend, Digs Dorfman, founder of The Sweet Potato ...
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2026/04/profound-pizza-toronto/

Hacker News Apr 8

I've Sold Out

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/

#HackerNews #Sold #Out #HackerNews #Entrepreneurship #SellingOut #TechStories #BusinessInsights

I've sold out

WIST Quotations Apr 2

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

   FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning!
   ALL: God forbid!
   FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #damnation #devil #forbidding #sellingout #sellingyoursoul #soul

Marlowe, Christopher - The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 32ff (1594; 1604 "A" text) | WIST Quotations

FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning! ALL: God forbid! FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it. In the expanded "B" text (1594; 1616), the lines (5.2/19; l. 60ff) are similar. FAUSTUS: Why, Lucifer and Mephistophiles. O gentlemen, I gave…

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Paul Healey Mar 11

@RejoinEU Well, in that case the monarchy should go to, as that presupposes an hereditary right bequeathed by the church. Yet if the interests of the family could elect representatives for the Parliament or Congress, and delegates for the Lords or Senate, they could propose to keep the Monarchy. If by choice it was the selection and election of an upstanding citizen, who would get it? #HereditaryPeersToGo #SellingOut #HereditaryRightsToGo #MonarchyToGo #ConstitutionalRights

RonSupportsYou Feb 5

Former Washington Post Editor Torches Jeff Bezos Over Newsroom Cuts. Marty Baron blasted the publication’s billionaire owner for sickening efforts to curry favor with Pres. Donald Trump":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marty-baron-reacts-to-wapo-cuts_n_6983669de4b053ac3e168706?origin=home-latest-news-unit&fbclid=Iwb21leAPwmPRjbGNrA_CYhmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuQ7okM_2G6zOOS5gM-tVwArzl5S6ZgsXBh7lyCRNRWH2A__vfzFtADaIOIu_aem_qrIPBAa6OUQIZecr0k2DDQ
#media #SellingOut #corruption #politics

Former Washington Post Editor Torches Jeff Bezos Over Newsroom Cuts

Marty Baron blasted the publication’s billionaire owner for “sickening efforts to curry favor” with President Donald Trump.

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WIST Quotations Jan 27

A quotation from Bill Watterson

HOBBES: Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1990-10-14)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81669…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #tiger #ego #vanity #art #commercialism #consumer #painting #sales #sell #sellingout #subject

Quick Quotes Jan 15

“It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.”
― Eric Sennevoight

#Bot #Quote #Conformity #Martinis #Politics #Reward #SellingOut #Wealth

RonSupportsYou Jan 7

Ron Filipkowski: "Trump makes a deal with Maduro’s vice president to pillage oil from #Venezuela in exchange for the Maduro regime remaining in power (without Maduro), while Fox News and Republicans continue to tell the Latino community that he is going to put Machado in power because he wants freedom and democracy in Venezuela."
#Trump #greed #corruption #SellingOut #politics