“Garth Brooks is back! The country superstar will release his first new album in years – literally eons – around the second Tuesday in November,” Roger Friedman reports for Showbiz411. “That will be 13 years since his last new collection, Scarecrow, which went platinum five times.”
“The other big news is that Garth’s entire catalog will be available for downloading starting on Monday at his website, www.garthbrooks.com,” Friedman reports. “Garth had previously been one of the few remaining holdouts, refusing to allow his songs on iTunes, amazon, or other services.”
“Now he’s going do it himself and cut out the middle man. I don’t know why more artists don’t do it this way,” Friedman reports. “As his fans know, Garth took a break from recording and touring to be with his wife, Trisha Yearwood, and his kids. And he really meant it. When I ran into him three years ago, Garth old me: ‘I’m not putting a new album out until all the babies are out [of the house]. I’m going to raise them and then hit it with a vengeance. We’ve got another three or four years.’ Well, that time is here. Garth will also launch a tour following release of the album.”
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MacDailyNews Take: By skipping iTunes Store, Brooks is flushing money down the toilet. As millions upon millions use iTunes Store and iTunes radio to discover new and new-to-them artists and music, he’s also eschewing the birth of new generations of fans. Ask the Shakers how that worked out for them, Garth.
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Big fuckin deal – what a dumb ass okie does matters not to me.
Flaming Lips, much better
Dude, he’s just a pop star, wrapped in a country blanket with a goofy wanna-be-rocker center.
Good-gawd…it’s not like he raps…..
Garth sucks anyways…no lose whatsoever.
If he didn’t wear a cowboy hat, he could be a public bathroom attendant.
Garth is great. Not your cup of tea, understood. Applaud him for cutting out the middle man and maximizing profit from his art.
He’s just hired someone else to be his middleman. I am sure that the service his ite would need to offer is developed and run by some entity, that does not work for free. Has he walked away from the record company and their services in producing and distributing actual CDs of his efforts?
Using iTunes is much cheaper than doing it yourself. No matter how many records you sell. Actually, I would like to know how many album sales it would actually take to make costs = iTunes’ 30%. Anyone done the math?
Anything less and Garthy will lose money.
not too smart Garth as iTunes music purchases are driven by ubiquitous iTunes Gift Cards that everyone and their mom gets, duh!
to be clear, Garth is skipping fishing in the entire iTunes gift card ocean of $billions by going indie. plus he is going to have to provide customer support to his fans when they lose their passwords – just wait for the class action suit when they switch devices and lose their MP3 or their GARTHP3
just wait til it won’t play on windows 98.
Years = “literally eons”? Groan!
The word ‘literally’ has a real meaning, and no other word in the English language can replace it. The nearest alternative is “This may sound like a figure of speech or hyperbole, but it is meant exactly as written.”
There is room for other words to be vague or fluid, but we need “literally” to mean something.
The word “eon” also has a real meaning, and in astronomy it is a billion years. So Garth hasn’t released an album in a billion years?
“literally eons … [t]hat will be 13 years”
So, an eon can be no longer than 6.5 years according to this doofus? God, the abuse of the word “literally” is so stupid.