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April 23, 2008 @ 8:59 AM | Comments 13 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | Email this post | Share on Facebook

Posted by blah: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 9:44 AM ) (from campus)
That birth control article left out the most important part: what is going UP in price? They made cuts and said it wouldn't affect them financially, which means SOMETHING must have gone up in price.
Posted by Protests: [#2] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 10:08 AM ) (from campus)
The Spectator's 1968 supplement is excellent. Is bwog planning any coverage of the events?
Posted by Travis: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM )
Did the Spectator editorial board just cull Bwog comments in writing that piece of crap about the spring concert?
Posted by cem: [#4] [reply] [track] (in reply to #3)
( posted April 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM )
No, it is external confirmation that getting obscure bands for an indoor concert is a recipe for a bad spring concert.
Posted by Travis: [#5] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 11:06 AM )
Unless you live under a rock (or, I suppose, attend Columbia), neither of the bands selected are that obscure.

Sorry Dave Matthews Band was unavailable.
Posted by hello: [#6] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 11:08 AM )
i thought the concert was awesome -- spec needs to stop being so crappy
Posted by Sorry: [#7] [reply] [track] (in reply to #5)
( posted April 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM ) (from campus)
which planet do you live on? Those bands are unbelievably obscure. What fraction of America listens to indie? And what fraction of indie-listeners knew about those bands?
Posted by hmm: [#8] [reply] [track] (in reply to #7)
( posted April 23, 2008 at 2:18 PM ) (from campus)
My dad is 60 and lives in East Nowhere, Kentucky, with bad radio and no real ability to use the internet. He loves The National. And I sure as hell didn't tell him about them, so beats me where he heard them first.
Posted by i think: [#9] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 4:13 PM ) (from campus)
there has to be a happy medium somewhere between free concerts from hit-or-miss bands and $25 concerts with huge bands that just as many people dislike anyway.
Posted by me again: [#10] [reply] [track] (in reply to #9)
( posted April 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM ) (from campus)
but OK Go would be fun.
Posted by Travis: [#11] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 4:56 PM )
Hey guys --

There's this place north, south, east, and west of campus called New York City. Perhaps you didn't know this, but New York City has hundreds of venues that bring in hundreds of bands almost every night for not a lot of money. If you don't like what your school got for you - for free - well, how about doing yourself a favor and finding what you do like on your own somewhere in the city?
Posted by msms: [#12] [reply] [track] (in reply to #11)
( posted April 23, 2008 at 6:23 PM ) (from campus)
Those hundreds of venues feature other obscure bands you hipsters orgasm over, so the good bands should play at the spring concert. The idea that everything but indie music sucks is ridiculous.
Posted by Math: [#13] [reply] [track]
( posted April 23, 2008 at 7:14 PM ) (from campus)
So $25 per person would bring in about $25,000 tops, since we now know that's the (allowed) capacity of Roone Arledge. If student life fees contributed $40,000 towards the cost of the artist, never mind staging costs, that's $65,000 for the artist. Sorry to disappoint, but that still won't get you much of a brand name.

I think it's worth noting that the last few years saw a lot of complaining that "the concert features only hip-hop" and now it's "only indie". Sigh.
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