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Beatles Sellout For Xmas

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LL Cool J shills for Sears; Janelle Monae, Flo Rida and The Dixie Chicks sell sweaters; and the Beatles schlep most everything. In this holiday edition of Commercial Success, the Daily Fix examines how retailers use popular music and musicians to hock their holiday wares in a time of recession. Will it be a case of sell-out or sold-out? You decide.

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  • KI4CLZ
  • NickMD
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      NickMD  

    • I liked the mixer, too bad I was forced to have either Heder or Rainn dance in the chorus (Heder at least didn't say anything dumb, he just looked it) Janelle mixed with the Dixie Chicks dancing (love them all, really) and Flo and Trey doing the rap made for a good remix. Damn you John Heder!

    • 3 years ago
  • enjoydivision
  • ninthstate
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      ninthstate  
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    • Well, Current may need money via advertising but they can choose who to take it from. Personally, as a consumer, I will support companies with strong ethics, philanthropic values corporate giving/donations and corporate social responsibility.

      Gap is simply not one of them, as they admitted last year (despite the damage control afterwords):

      "The multi-billion dollar global fashion company Gap has admitted that it may have unknowingly used child labor in the production of a line of children's clothing in India."

      http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3787304

      and this is not the only scandal

    • 3 years ago
  • MaRibElfalcon76
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      MaRibElfalcon76  

    • I'm curious to what kind of deal the Gap has with Current?

      umm, yeah don't think we all haven't noticed those annoying tagging commercials

      Please don't let us see more of these
      Current is suppose to represent more than that..

    • 3 years ago
  • Humdrum
  • C_Los84
  • smurph25
  • Humdrum
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      Humdrum  

    • I did not know that was the guy that played Napoleon Dynamite. I thought he was just some badly-directed model that danced like a kid with Downs Syndrome and expected me to think it was the new It Thing.

      Seriously; it's so god-awful that I actually get rather angry whenever I see that moronic, patronizing, stinking lump of ad.

      I'm going to make myself a drink and brood now.
      I hate commercials.

    • 3 years ago
  • ninthstate
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      ninthstate  
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    • We can't blame the Beatles entirely, Michael Jackson owns half the rights to the Beatles catalog with Sony/ATV Music Publishing (See my link), He has to pay the lawyers somehow I guess.

      btw, giving companies free advertising by mentioning their ads and linking to them is lame imho

    • 3 years ago
  • cynker
  • huntre
  • smurph25
  • rajajajamjar
  • petergrumbine
  • afillmore
  • smurph25
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      smurph25  

    • Thanks for telling me about Gap's new campaign (link above this response), I've checked out the "Merry Mixer" on the site and it's really good. Also I didn't realise there was also an iPhone application (even though I don't own an iPhone).

    • 3 years ago
  • Drawk
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      Drawk  

    • Although it's cool to make fun of EVERYTHING, Sears indeed used to have an electronics department. Before there was Best Buy, Circuit City and the internet, every major department store used to have a stereo section. It was always the place I would go to as a kid when my parents were shopping.

      LL Cool J is 40 years old, so his grandfather probably did buy him turntables there.

      JC Penney's stereo brand known as MCS series used to be manufactured by Technics.

      Maybe you've heard of the SL-1200.

      I'm not sure what brands Sears carried.

    • 3 years ago
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