Its wasteful. i just cant imagine this is a huge money maker

Eilish herself had variants and various boxes with her latest album too. I don’t think she had exclusive indie store ones too. Find it kinda weird to see her complaining about it.

the best time to complain about getting some is right after you got yours.

Eilish gets it

Variants are wasteful. Most of what we consume is wasteful. I love physical books, but in a world where kindles exist they are wasteful. But if variant record pressings (or the wasteful vinyl industry since streaming exists) disappeared tomorrow the impact on the world's carbon footprint is probably negligible.

Be mad at crypto currency, which is just as stupid as variants (dumber) and actually has an enormously devastating environmental impact

I've got no real beef with what Eilish said, though. It's well meaning posturing, but that's fine. Most public declarations are. It is nearly impossible to practice what you preach in every aspect of your life.

For a period of 5 years (late 1992 through 1997) Pearl Jam was the rare band/artist that actually managed to practice what they preached in a totalizing way - with the press blackouts, no videos, ticketmaster boycott, etc. It was a cool thing to support and tangentially be a part of.

But the values shift happened with Yield. No one likes to talk about it because people are attached to the album, but that's when Pearl Jam turned their back on their celibacy. The point afterwards at which you start to care is the point at which you start to be disappointed in the music. Sometimes, to help explain away why the music means less to you, you'll make the 'they only care about making money/releasing art to be popular' argument. But again, Yield is the pivot point. Any line drawn after Yield is largely arbitrary and based on personal preference.

Trag has been riding his horse to exhaustion, but at some point 100 pages back he said he could make his peace with sex crimes if the music sounded good to him. As would we all.

That’s a very narrow reading of what I said, idiot.

the variant wastefulness or the sex crimes?

That’s a very narrow reading of what I said, idiot.

“It doesn’t matter that Pearl Jam pays their artists in merch because crypto is a thing that exists.” -stip, verbatim