Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:06 pm
U2's a good name. too bad it had to go to such a crappy band. owell i guess its just another case like that of the darkness which is our best piece of evidence that crappy bands take all the cool names.
Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:51 pm
I hope that wasnt the only copy!!! 
Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:06 pm
One disappointed thief I should think.
Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:42 pm
I hope that wasnt the only copy!!!
God I hope it was!
Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:48 pm
Man...you guys have good taste in games but not in music. U2 isn amazing band...great sound, good concerts, and all around pretty decent guys in the band. Joshua Tree is consistently rated as one of the most musically influential albums ever. They've hit some snags on the way, but so has everyone. If you can, you should check out the DVD version of the 1988 documentary 'Rattle and Hum'. It's got some great tracks, especially one from a concert they did the night after the IRA had murdered several people in Enniskillen. Good stuff 
Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:51 pm
Yeah Sewer Urchin I would have to concede that they are a pretty popular band.
I just hate entertainers that get up on soap boxes and tell everyone else how the world should be. (this goes for all of them from the Dixie Chicks to Ted Nugent)
Pretty much the ultimate in hypocrits when they tell others how they should be giving aid. How many millions is U2 worth? Evidently they have a cause but they are unable to convince themselves to give up their own money for it.
"Damn Ethel! Bono is right! Lets cash in little Timmies college fund so we can pay even more taxes to help people in Africa learn how not to f&#k and spread AIDS at the cost of billions of American tax dollars that they won't even get a thank you for"
Bill Gates doesn't get all preachy about helping people but he puts up literally hundreds of million of dollars in charity every year.
This is for JimmyT when he gets in here and tells me my opinion is wrong (? how can an opinion be wrong).
You are 100% correct, they are media personalities blah blah blah.... people interview them blah blah blah.... have a right to speak out blah blah blah...
And I as a consumer have the right to not purchase their product and deny them my money. Free market baby! YEAH!
[Poking fun at Jimmy from another thread and now that I have dragged this thread down into the cesspit of a potential political thread I will depart. My work here is done:D]
I just hate entertainers that get up on soap boxes and tell everyone else how the world should be. (this goes for all of them from the Dixie Chicks to Ted Nugent)
Pretty much the ultimate in hypocrits when they tell others how they should be giving aid. How many millions is U2 worth? Evidently they have a cause but they are unable to convince themselves to give up their own money for it.
"Damn Ethel! Bono is right! Lets cash in little Timmies college fund so we can pay even more taxes to help people in Africa learn how not to f&#k and spread AIDS at the cost of billions of American tax dollars that they won't even get a thank you for"
Bill Gates doesn't get all preachy about helping people but he puts up literally hundreds of million of dollars in charity every year.
This is for JimmyT when he gets in here and tells me my opinion is wrong (? how can an opinion be wrong).
You are 100% correct, they are media personalities blah blah blah.... people interview them blah blah blah.... have a right to speak out blah blah blah...
And I as a consumer have the right to not purchase their product and deny them my money. Free market baby! YEAH!
[Poking fun at Jimmy from another thread and now that I have dragged this thread down into the cesspit of a potential political thread I will depart. My work here is done:D]
Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:56 pm
In my opinion, I hate the Joshua Tree album. U2 only has a select few songs that I like. I just wish they died along with the 80's.
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:20 pm
Originally posted by NGame
In my opinion, I hate the Joshua Tree album. U2 only has a select few songs that I like. I just wish they died along with the 80's.
I'm glad its your opinion. U2 as a band is fantastic. Record after Record sell out. Rather they be like Duran Duran? Or forget what they do music wise. Just look at what they do for world hunger/debt forgiveness. Bono might be eccentric in his ways but they are the one band that isn't in rehab every five seconds. They keep on keeping on.
Well I'm off. I have to get on Kazaa and find a few tracks of the stolen merchandise.
Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:00 pm
Originally posted by NGame
In my opinion, I hate the Joshua Tree album. U2 only has a select few songs that I like. I just wish they died along with the 80's.
It is your opinion, but the Joshua Tree is one of the best albums of all time if you ask me.
U2 is also amazing live in concert...very much worth seeing!
Are you sure you are not confusing U2 with Duran Duran? LOL
Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:04 am
Just look at what they do for world hunger/debt forgiveness.
Just what exactly is that? Besides bitch that the US doesn't do enough? (both Clinton's and Bush's Administrations)
Let me give you an old proverb and tie it into my train of thought.
"If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day. If you teach a man how to fish he will never go hungry"
World Hunger and Debt Relief (WTF is that? More something for nothing? Sorry, doesn't work in the real world)
Until people who live in those places change it nothing we ever do will make their situation better. In fact it will worsen it because they will not learn to be self sufficient. Which is the ONLY way out of poverty and hunger.
When Bono and his boys give up their chartered flights and mansions maybe I will have some respect for them. Telling me I don't do enough while they live in the lap of luxury is the ultimate in hypocriscy.
I'm old enough to remember "great relief efforts" like Band-Aid in the 80's. What happened to all that money that was made? After the promoters made their huge pocket of ching the food that was bought was siezed (read stolen) by the Ethiopian Communist Government so that it would not "find its way into rebels hand". Meanwhile all the people that great effort was for continued to starve and die.
But Michael still had Neverland to molest small children at.
It's a great and loved concept of western socialism/liberalism. Lets throw money at the problem! Then we can feel good! We sent some rice to starving uneducated people in Africa who live no better than peons in the dark ages! (They never got it but so what? I feel good now!) Now I can feel good going home to my nice suburban home, sit in my air conditioning, and play my computer game...
...and listen to my copy of the new U2 album.
Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:24 am
We don't have to hear it! We have been saved!!
Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:03 am
Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
Pretty much the ultimate in hypocrits when they tell others how they should be giving aid. How many millions is U2 worth? Evidently they have a cause but they are unable to convince themselves to give up their own money for it.
Yep that's the same reason I can't stand them. Sell just one of your 6 house Bono and give the money to the poor and if you won't do that then fuck off and quit telling me I am a bad person for not doing the same.
Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
Bill Gates doesn't get all preachy about helping people but he puts up literally hundreds of million of dollars in charity every year.
Again yep, I have a friend who works for a lung cancer charity and he says that the sheer amount of money which Gates donates to different charities is staggering. The difference being Gates doesn't do it on prime time and doesn't do it to look good or to sell records.
Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:18 am
Actually, most of Bono's time/preaching is spent trying to get governments, not individuals, to spend money that in most cases they have already promised to give. It was very interesting for me to read that Bono and Bob Geldorf (sp?) who likely dissagree with President Bush on some social issues, praised his efforts to actually help Africa, and used the U.S. as a icon for the EU countries to follow. Most of their vitriol is aim at the ineffective EU and their empty promises to help. The idea of debt forgiveness needs to be evaluated, as much of the debt western countries are owed was racked up by corrupt dictators that those countries propped up to curb the spread of communisim. (Sry for the run-on sent.) I don't know how much personal money Bono has given, but I do know that a few million dollars won't make a huge difference. Hence the effort to get governments on board that can spend billions. I'm glad he's out there calling the EU leaders liars and raising a ruckus because that way maybe the US won't be stuck holding the bill for the world's problems again.
Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:29 pm
Even though I don't care for U2, I really hope the CD was just misplaced and not stolen.
I would be devistated if material I worked so hard on, and stressed over for the past 2 years, was stolen in its incomplete state. Having somebody most likely about to put your unfinished product all over the internet would just kill me.
I hope if somebody did steal it, they get what they deserve. Thats one of the worst things you can do to a band imo. I don't mind people downloading music, but this kind of stuff is what really pisses me off.
I would be devistated if material I worked so hard on, and stressed over for the past 2 years, was stolen in its incomplete state. Having somebody most likely about to put your unfinished product all over the internet would just kill me.
I hope if somebody did steal it, they get what they deserve. Thats one of the worst things you can do to a band imo. I don't mind people downloading music, but this kind of stuff is what really pisses me off.