I’m really fascinated with Starbucks. No, really…I am. After I read Taylor Clark’s Starbucked, my interest in the coffee/retail phenom tripled. Of course, no aspect of the company fascinates me more than its efforts to sell music. But apparently, Starbucks has stumbled a little over the last couple years, offering nothing eclectic in the music department…rather, its yuppie customers are finding little difference between the music Starbucks sells and the regular-ass music Wal-Mart sells (John Fogerty, I think they’re talking about you…) Go here for the full scoop on this and other aspects of its music biz downfall.I gotta say, though…how eclectic can you claim to be when the first album you sold was by Kenny G? Then again, maybe musical blandness is part of Starbucks’ back-to-basics shift…(Thanks to Brian Miller for the link)
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