Wow PJ fans are so "fair weather"...after 20 years turn on them because of a commercial. Tell me...where exactly is your nearest record store??? They have given a lot of joy over the years..stop with your romantic notions. Oh and even rock idols have the freedom to grow facial hair..even if you don't like it.
I lost some respect for them at this point in their career ... They became everything they were against. Sold themselves out just to sell a few more albums .... Oh well fuck it, money is money ...
People were saying that about them when they started. They were even more commercial than now, but their music was full of heart and it still is. And correct me if I'm wrong, but they are under an indie label. So if they "sold out" for money, good for them. How else are you going to pay the bills and put food on the table? I really do hate this 'sell out" term with a passion. It's becoming such a trend among hipsters and film geeks.
@regulatorzone You idiot, seriously could you imagine this band starving to death? If pearl jam were that hungry why not go down to the local mall and busk. Lets be realistic, maybe without this target commercial they could not afford a newer model jet plane. Its the simple folk like yourself that follow this bank like a trend that make them look worse than what they are. Whats next, Jesus comes back to earth and starts promoting coca-cola. Go to target and get yourself a training bra..moron.
Pearl Jam does a TARGET commercial. They are officially dead to me. when I saw this ADVERT on TV last year I decided to chuck all of my PJ CD's. They can go to hell. Say what you want about Nirvana, but you wouldn't catch Kurt Cobain DEAD or ALIVE in a Goddamned Walmart or Target commercial.
@fullclip16117 The album was also available in independent music stores, iTunes, and other outlets. Target was just the exclusive big box retailer at first; their albums get sold at Walmart, Target, Kmart and the like anyway (as do Nirvana's).
anti mainstream anti fame? give me a break thats just what they want you to think.... then why sellout to target if you hate fame .. no matter what PJ fans will buy the newest PJ CD so whats the need for a commerical? plus eddie vedder was in a romantic comedy back in the day yet around 93' he was bitching about how he hated being famous... it just doesnt add up
I agree that the commercial is a bit degrading for their standards but they rarely market albums like this and I think people love jumping on the "he/she sell out" bandwagon, it gives them an artificial sense of satisfaction i guess. If you listen to the album it isn't A-grade PJ material but the album has some great tracks and Vedder still has a solid voice. Let the haters hate, PJ will play on and continue to make good music.....
i thought it was very interesting to see Pearl Jam in a Target Ad promoting their music. Its kinda like michael moore talking crap about the government not giving a damn about the poor and then he goes and applies for food stamps and unemployment checks.
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Hey it's a cool video I like how they subtly work in the Target logo on occasion in the video look closely if you didn't notice the first time once you see it you'll be like "OMG I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT AT FIRST!!!!"
Also, the lyrics "Gotta fight to get it back again" are particularly salient considering how broke they must've been to have stooped to this level.
It wasn't a video made for Target it was a video made for tthe fixer they used it in the Target commercial. Pearl Jam a sellout you don't have a clue let's see what was a bigger corporation Sony or Target? Sony obviously! You don't go to a smaller corporation to become a sellout. Think! I don't know any bands as big as Pearl Jam without a record company. Leaving a record company selling out! Do you even know what selling out is?
Picture this: somewhere down the line all members of PJ besides Eddie left. Eddie deicides to keep the name & find 2nd rate musicians & continue as PJ. they come out with an album sounding more like creed. They repackage themselves to look more like they did in the early 90s. They all grow their long hair and start a "grunge is back" campaign. & of course they start doing music videos. APPRECIATE WHAT U HAVE PEOPLE! PJ is still 1 of the best despite what people say. get over it people!!!!
I have to disagree, i believe that this is just their way of saying "we;re ready to play ball again"
Plus this isnt the first time they've been on a commercial for target. Back in 2002 target was advertising their album riot act yet nobody backlashed them at the time. Also this promoting of the band wasn't done to the same extent that say Green day has done. Their popularity & re packaging to market themselves to teens of today is the epitome of selling. PJ has always done things their own way.
When PJ came out, things were a lot different. Now they are one of the greatest rock bands of all time about to celebrate 20 years of music. The new record has been on rotation nonstop since I bought it at Target, and is the first record I have really embraced and loved since No Code.
Pearl Jam is an American treasure. The music industry today is nothing like it was in 1991. Pearl Jam is a LIVE band that has found a way to promote the new record. Good job. Other bands should be so lucky
Sony was a bigger corporation that Target. How do you sellout going to a smaller corporation? I notice no one can ever answer this! Pearl Jam is the most legendary band in U.S history. No one is better!
I really enjoy the album. As long as the music's good, I don't give a shit. Look at Chris Cornell collaborating with fuckin Timbaland... That's selling out in a big fucking way in my book! The industry is changing, and PJ gotta roll with it. But I give it to you, this commercial sucks ass! But as I said, as long as the music' rocks, I'm all good.
I think everyone has missed the point that Pearl Jam got Target to carry vinly for the first time and as Eddie said on Seattle Bootleg, now if they only sold record players.
Can everyone just calm down about Pearl Jam selling out. This is not the music video with any product placement, its obviously been edited by target to get their name in there
Keep studying those pick up movies, don't take your frustration out on people with taste. And learn how to spell right, that should probably give you more luck with the ladies.
They are only being Judged because of Vedder's grand standing and pretentious douche-baggery back in the 90's when they were on top. Now that, that are, errr somewhat, "yesterday's news" they have to bay it up with the rest of the sheep and sell out. Call it Swaggart syndrome, if you are too young to know what that means, google Jimmy Swaggart and see what happened to him.
Im really not trying to get that deep with this. I just think its funny how 15 Years ago Vedder and PJ, was all about fighting corporate America and now they are right on the bandwagon.
Its so funny that you've spent a better part of the evening arguing about it w/ strangers and singing the merits of a band nobody ever listens to? The reason Slayer cant sell out is because nobody likes their music....well, ok, you do, but that is neither here nor there. And I think I just made my point....
Im not going to get into a 7th grader arguement about who listens to or doesn't listen a certain band, it is a useless and juvenile argument. It's a matter of taste, and beauty is in the Eye, or in this case, the Ear of the beholder. So please, lets stay on topic, the fact the Eddie Chedder and PJ has sold out!!!....
ha. but 7th grade is when we listened to pearl jam the most. arguing about pearl jam and alice in chains is among the best forms of nostalgia. just kidding, i love jar of flies. anyway, yeah, back to the point of eddie's target tattoo at the beginning. although, it wasn't on his hand for any of the more zoomed out shots, so maybe it was someone else's hand. i dunno if that would make it better or worse.
Well, to give you some perspective, when you were listening to PJ in 7th grade (im assuming the 10 album), i was in just turning 21. Weather it was his hand or not, is irrelevant, it what meant to look as if it was his hand, and that is very symbolic proof that they sold out. I really dont care if they did, hey if it promotes their album, then thats what they are supposed to do, unless of course they wanted to put out a record so nobody would buy it. Im just pointing out the hypocrisy.
Its not the fact they the did a target AD, the point of being a rock star is to be famous....no matter how much people like Chedder claim they are against it. But when they get on the artistic high horse, the open themselves up to criticism when they double back on their own words.
Amen,GreatHamdini"I saw PJ in DC in Jun.paid an arm n leg to see them but NO BIG SCREEN. they're 2 "real" for THAT.now the Target ad.hilarious. GH nailed it. they opened themselves up 2 criticism. they were holier than thou their whole career..now they ARE..the "man." Don't you just love people that get worked up when their fav celebs are critiqued? These are the same jackasses that get in fights at sports events when "their" team loses..as if it actually has something to do w/ THEM. lol.
It's all very Hollywood, just like limousine Liberals (socialists) like Michael Moore. Preach to everyone else yet afford themselves the benefits of the very thing they claim to protest. Like Al Gore and his Gulfstream 2
Precisely. Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" exemplifies this point. Mmm..I'm guessing it's the one book of his that Hollywood will not option for a movie. To do that, they'd have to come to grips with a *real* inconvenient truth.
Everything about this makes my soul hurt. After years of yelling at corporate America and sticking up for the fans against Ticketmaster and all that other anti-establishment passion, this really feels like the rug has been pulled out from under us. Maybe they were overly angry but they were the only ones in the mainstream keeping art away from money. Dammit all.
HEY!!...WTF...Mr. Anti-corperate America himself, Eddie "Im so deep" Vedder...selling out like a French whore on a busy Saturday....LMAO. Thats too funny, I always knew there was a reason I hated Pearl Jam.....Kurt Cobain would be turning in his grave, that is if he could hear or see it, cept for that pesky shotgun blast that took his head off...HA HA!!!
The absolute best part of this AD is Eddie's Target logo Tattoo on his arm....LMAO-ROFL.....Go Get em Mr. Grunge....sell that schit out!!!....I got two words for ya Eddie.....EFFIN SLAYER!!!!
I'm a dedicated Pearl Jam fan and have listened to them for a long long time but this is fucking disgusting. At the concert I went to Eddie Vedder talked about how he went to pick up the album at Target. I guess the band is now humping Targets leg.
What do you care? it's not like you get anything out of it...your just a whiny little douchebag who's opinions mean nothing..and nobody gives a crap if your a dedicated fan(which your obviously not)... just keep your mouth shut and be happy about the new album instead of complain about a commerical...do you have anything else to do besides whine? And if you have something to say, try to use intelligent words instead of F#&@ or s@#$ like a retarded imbecile.
Because art is not a product, Eddie realized this a long time ago, it's time for you to. Also, how could you judge and say that I'm not a dedicated fan? I've listened to them since Ten, as have a lot of my family. What a hypocritical statement, "do you have anything else to do but whine", yes, I'm not whining, but you are. Is it so hard to take that your favorite band is selling out? They're one of my favorite bands, yet I've come to the accepting that they're selling out.
I really don't care what you have to say..I'm surprising myself that I'm even wasting my time replying a socalled "dedicated fan" who clearly just doesn't get it...I'm done talking to you,if I speak to you any more my IQ will just keep dropping. Unlike you I need my brain.
I see on your profile you like Radiohead, do you think Radiohead would make a fucking commercial to promote a big corporate giant like Target with their "art"?
Oh Believe me, Radiohead will soon enough be seen on WalFarts ADs. They will sell out, just like all the pretentious so called "Artists" do. That is unless your band is called SLAYER, who has been around and STAYED around longer than all of the above and have never sold out!!!!!....ANGEL OF DEATH!!!!!....
Pearl Jam was the Bon Jovi of the 90's....
Go Eddie!!! Get another Target Logo Tattoo...asshole....LMAO
Im not Trolling....ass. I came here because I was a 20 something in the 90's when Vedder was doing all his "anti-corperate-america" crap, I hated his pretentious crap then, And Im getting a HUGE laugh about it now, seeing how he sold out, I mean the Target Logo Tattoo on his hand is JUST TOO MUCH....LMAO......Go Eddie!!!
slayer couldn't sell out if they wanted to cuz nobody likes them to begin with. ha. i'm kidding actually, i've never listened to slayer. but i feel like i have. i see them like a movie that gives it all away in the trailer so you don't have to watch to understand what it's all about. i could be wrong, but judging by your commentary i doubt that i am. anyway, rock on. whatever floats yer boat. i mean i don't care that much. it's just, nostalgia is nice, and this makes me feel cheated as a child.
I'm using Slayer as the ultimate counterpoint to Pearl Jam. Sure you'll never see Slayer "sell out'" a 30,000 seat venue on their own. But the have been the same uncompromising band with and uncompromising sound that they have had since the late 80's. Im not saying musically either PJ or SLayer is better, its a matter of taste, I prefer Metal over Grunge, not withstanding Alice in Chains (who Effin rocks...btw). I'm just pointing out, the irony of PJ selling out, so big.
Art is not a product? Art is the biggest product out there, my friend. Have you ever been to an "art gallery?" you pay exorbitant amounts of money because you percieve it as being "art." If they dont make any money on the product, they dont get to make the product anymore. Simple supply and demand. Art is a big fat product, even if you want to beleive otherwise.
thing is, i don't think anyone disagrees with any of the points you have been making. art is a product. people do get old. the internet does make it too easy to access free music. blah blah. we all agree on all the facts. this is a matter of opinion that we are fighting over. like i said, it makes perfect sense that pearl jam would do this, but that doesn't make it right. logical, or uh . . . pragamatic, are not always correct or good or admirable. you are defending a fucked up system.
i think maybe my point was lost in my rambling, so let me be more concise . . .
you are explaining this like "well, that's the way it is, so it's fine, just accept it, it's ok, cuz it's typical, it happens, stop wining"
and our point is "that is the way it is, but it shouldn't be. just cuz something is normal doesn't make it right. and in this specific case, it's extra not right because of the hypocrisy, pearl jam has always been against this."
this is so embarrising for the band, in the 90's when they got famous they got embarresed on the account that the mainsream thought there music was good, and tried to help out the underground the best they could. now look at them...
Ok, in case anyone is missing what is happening in the music business, no one is making ANY money. Its not selling out to make a brilliant record and then SELL IT at one of the biggest retail chains in the country. They are in the business of making money....and this "sell out" starving artist nonsense is what young punks say to justify their crappy music that no one will ever hear. Pearl Jam has consistently, for two decades, made solid rock music...if you dont like it, dont buy it. Duh.
what you are missing is that pearl jam used to speak to those young punks specifically. they never needed to do this back when they represented youthful energy. now they are clearly crying out for attention. it's sad.
I'm not missing it, friend, its just that all us young punks got older and got jobs. it happens to the best of us, and it will happen to you too....sadly. progression of life, baby doll. Sucks as it might.
i already got old too, but yer never gonna see me rockin out to a target ad. i admire yer optimism, but come on, you have to see this as pathetic. let me put it this way, when i saw the blackberry loves u2 ad, it did not surprise me at all, and played right into my u2 hatred. when i saw black eyed peas doing pepsi ads, no surprise. i mean, admit that some artists are ok with being commercials, others aren't. the reason everyone is reacting right now is because this is very unpearjamish.
if they had been all about this all along, then it would be no big deal. this is weird cuz it is exactly the opposite of what they stood for. if it isn't and this was always secretly their goal, then we've been lied to. so it's up to you now to believe either bad option. did they sell out, or have they always sucked? honestly, i'd rather believe they got old and made a huge mistake. but don't pretend that this is not a mistake just cuz it makes sense.
Exactly. If this was their thing it wouldn't be a big deal, but so many times they've insulted other bands and said "fuck you" to the corporations. I mean, look at Do the Evolution, a music video to say "Fuck you MTV you corporate cocksucking whore". And then they do this shit.
Look at it however you want, kids, but this is the only way to make money in music today. They arent advertising for Target, they are advertising for Pearl Jam. And probably wouldn't have to if people couldn't steal/download for free their music on so many different avenues on the net. This isnt PJ hawking blackberry or pepsi....its PJ selling their album. Not sure how that is selling out, but I guess it gives ppl something to talk about. Explaining the venom in the 9000 posts here. lame.
i'm not trying to get the last word here, i just . . . completely disagree with you. you can't say they aren't advertising for target in a target ad. you don't have to decide if this is a pearl jam ad or a target ad, it's clearly both at the same time. they mutually benefit from each other's endorsement. i don't know why i'm explaining this, it should be obvious. you are giving pearl jam way more credit than they deserve. telling you where to buy their album is not "just selling their album."
Then don't buy it...you show the man, by saving your 11.99!! Maybe you can just give your money to the charity directly. Those ffing sell outs and their damned charities. Who do they think they are fooling??? (ps, in case you cant read the sublte language of sarcasm...this was it)
Wow First We'll never sellout. Then they make you join fan club to get tickets that they're the only people making money. The they sell their souls to suck the target. And remeber that charity work is free puplicity and all they did was do TV spot and talk about an issue.
Sell-Out? Maybe in the pre-internet world. The music will either speak for itself or conform to the big corporate music machine with contrived "hits". I tend to look at music for what it is and on it's own merit and less on the vehicle for selling albums. There's a lot of GREAT talent out there that will only be mildly discovered if they hold on the outdated notion of being a sell-out. The business of selling your music is totally separate from your creations in the studio and on the road.
Pearl Jam are the opposite of sell outs... anyone who has followed the band and/or put more than 0.7 seconds worth of thought into it would understand that...but I guess you have to expect the average-idiot knee jerk "Sell OUT" reaction when you see a target symbol and PJ together.
when PJ toured w/ U2 in '92-'93, i read an article about eddie v being conflicted about u2's big money corporate mentality and how he didn't like being a part of it. bono kept telling him "you'll understand as you get older and spend more time in the business". i guess now eddie understands. i'm a fan of both PJ & U2, and PJ fan friends used to give me shit about U2 selling out. it's a sad reality: as we get older, our idealism becomes negotiable. unfortunately, that's how the real world works.
I thought pearl jam was anti-corperation. now look at them sucking the target cock. i always knew that eddie vedder was a homo but i never knew he was a gold digging whore.
I guess people don't realize that ever since Napster hit it big, the music industry has gone down the toilet. Every asshole and their mother downloads shit for free. What did you think was going to happen?
Bands now have to make deals to sell their albums exclusively at certain stores in order to stay afloat. It could have been worse PJ could have sold their album exclusively at Walmart! (Fuck that store!)
WOW!!! I never thought Peal Jam would sell out. But they proved me wrong, They must be broke. Just imagine if they would have gone with the flow of normal bands. They would have had more money and videos. They are playing here in Portland Oregon and it did not even sell out.
the vocals are amazing as always the instrumental is amazing as always. this is simply a great album regardless of where its being sold or how its being advertised!
I can't believe all these shameless punks accusing Pearl Jam of selling out! After all the sacrifices this band has made over the years... They used to be THE biggest band around, and could easily continued to be so if they wanted to. I mean, they write and perform the shit out of, say, U2. But they took another route, outside the mainstream. And this is the shit you get? Fuck all of you nagging sad fucks! Me, I'm putting on Unthought Known and having another magic moment.
I guess they just wanted to make fans aware of where to get the CD - if the Tenclub would have had the capabilties to distribute thousands of CDs/LPs at once, I'm sure they would have done it that way. Maybe next time
well considering target is the only major retailer to carry the cd it is a good idea to let people know your not a sell out when you leave your record company Who's the bigger corporation Target or Sony? Going to the smaller corporation is the opposite of selling out!
dude its f*cking Pearl Jam. they could sell that shit out of the back of a van and idiots would buy it up. target is not a production company like sony is, and i don't remember a cheep ass sony ad featuring Pearl Jam preforming live. its selling out man
If you leave a giant corporation like Sony who is your record company and go on your own you know independent like all bands wish they could do it is not selling out. You don't sell out going to a smaller corporation to distribute your album. They leave the biggest record company in the world and you call them sell outs LOL!
Not to mention the video was not made just for Target it was the video for the song. Oh and if you knew about pearl jam you would know they made a commercial for yield also. Look it up on you tube that was back in 98 with Sony! You have to distribute your album somehow without a record company and just doing it online sucks.
I am in between on this. They did it on their own steam...got away from the record label. Doing the Target thing does go against all they stood for back in the day. I also saw at the very end of the MLB All-Star game The Fixer was played. I also saw on ESPN Sports Center they played a different song from the album every day. Did they sell out and become a corporate rock band...no. Are they using the corporate machine to push records...yes.
Call yourself a PJ fan when you know what the hell is really going on. THEY DID NOT SELL OUT. They made an independent album AWAY FROM THEIR RECORD LABEL and it is available at Target. They made a commercial promoting their album and the store in which to purchase it. YOUR LUCID DUMBASS SHOULD BE WORKING IN A SWEATSHOP.
I Love pearl jam...But this makes me sick. I remember eddie talking about how much of a sellout it was to be in a commercial....now here we are. He was one of the ones who made me HATE CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......Does he even realize how many SWEATSHOPS TARGET HAS. I'm so sad from this....
Please help me understand this: How can leaving major record label Sony and releasing an album on their own be selling out? So what they made a commercial. Big fucking deal! I guess you'd like them to make a couple of hundred old fashion cassette tapes and give them away for free from their garage, exclusively to wannabe bona fide morons like yourself? Dude, grow the fuck up.
Eddie vedder has said he was disappointed when he seen old rockers in commercials. Now look where hes at. Yes, they need to get their music out, but to have a target commercial, promoting target. Did they ever have a sony commercial saying "buy things made by sony"..?.. NO! Sorry but playing anti-sweatshop shows to promoting target is selling out.
Jesus Christ it's not easy being a rock n' roller these days. If this is a sell out, what the hell would you call Chris Cornell's desperate attempt at... something with Timbaland? Now THAT'S selling out. See the difference? Pearl Jam made a great rock record, and that's all I care about.
There not saying buy things at Target genius there saying you can buy there album at Target. No other major retailer carries it how else should they let people know drive around until they figure it out?
I'm a PJ fan for 20 years now and i'm shocked that they have sold out and did a Target commercial. WTF? Why? did they burn threw the money they made over the years? Turns my stomach! Anti-establishment whatever!
you're missing my point, I actually agree with it, using target is good business sense. Im just laughing at PJ's hypocrisy. I dont think using a major chain is selling out, unless of course the persons preached against it for so long then did a 180
Goddammit, here I go again: PJ used to be signed with Sony. Major league record company! After hitting the bigtime they fulfilled their contract by releasing several experimental, non-commercial records, which they did not promote. Now they're self-releasing an album for the first time.Very un-selloutish!
However they cannot distribute it from their garage, so they needed to cut a deal. They could've taken Wal-Mart on, that would've been easy. They chose Target, mainly because Target would allow the hundreds of independent record stores around America to distribute it too. So you see, they are not doing a 180. As for the commercial, yeah it sucks, but they gotto let people know where to find the album somehow.
pearl jam and target together is the real america. I bought it for only 11.98 and the album is really good,but not as good as the avacodo album....but close.
To be "sold out" person means that this person have something to sell.
uliqed 1 month ago
great song
peaceoflove18 3 months ago
great song!
alibrady23 7 months ago
Do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll call, every word you say is suspect, you're a corporate whore and eh, end of story.
Bill Hicks
tim140383 7 months ago
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Quite simply the most absurd, ridiculous and retarded thing to say.
regulatorzone 2 months ago
@regulatorzone That training bra from target must be a really snug fit.
tim140383 2 months ago
Wow PJ fans are so "fair weather"...after 20 years turn on them because of a commercial. Tell me...where exactly is your nearest record store??? They have given a lot of joy over the years..stop with your romantic notions. Oh and even rock idols have the freedom to grow facial hair..even if you don't like it.
mzk123ify 9 months ago 2
I lost a lot og respect for these guys. As matter of fact, these guys sold when eddie grew a beard and his hair long.
uptownsk8er13 9 months ago
I lost some respect for them at this point in their career ... They became everything they were against. Sold themselves out just to sell a few more albums .... Oh well fuck it, money is money ...
Jzs20 10 months ago
@Jzs20
People were saying that about them when they started. They were even more commercial than now, but their music was full of heart and it still is. And correct me if I'm wrong, but they are under an indie label. So if they "sold out" for money, good for them. How else are you going to pay the bills and put food on the table? I really do hate this 'sell out" term with a passion. It's becoming such a trend among hipsters and film geeks.
regulatorzone 2 months ago
@regulatorzone You idiot, seriously could you imagine this band starving to death? If pearl jam were that hungry why not go down to the local mall and busk. Lets be realistic, maybe without this target commercial they could not afford a newer model jet plane. Its the simple folk like yourself that follow this bank like a trend that make them look worse than what they are. Whats next, Jesus comes back to earth and starts promoting coca-cola. Go to target and get yourself a training bra..moron.
tim140383 2 months ago
@regulatorzone sorry but Eddie vedder alone is worth about $80 million so...
ACHEESEDANISH00 2 weeks ago
sellout
Steamboat12002 1 year ago
said the same thing this is just sad
zo62 1 year ago
Pearl Jam does a TARGET commercial. They are officially dead to me. when I saw this ADVERT on TV last year I decided to chuck all of my PJ CD's. They can go to hell. Say what you want about Nirvana, but you wouldn't catch Kurt Cobain DEAD or ALIVE in a Goddamned Walmart or Target commercial.
fullclip16117 1 year ago
@fullclip16117 The album was also available in independent music stores, iTunes, and other outlets. Target was just the exclusive big box retailer at first; their albums get sold at Walmart, Target, Kmart and the like anyway (as do Nirvana's).
jasoncinema 11 months ago
@jasoncinema Right, but PJ did an actual Target commercial........... They may as well as be Justin Bieber at this point....
fullclip16117 11 months ago
:o Eddie Vedder influenced by the Who. The Who have a target as their logo. Therefore this is ok
reubidoo 1 year ago 3
this ad is seriously heartbreaking to me. goodbye pearl jam
adamdude91 1 year ago
@adamdude91 Pearl Jam are hypocrites
12363brad 1 year ago 3
@12363brad absolutely, and they havent copped anywhere near as much shit as they deserve for it
adamdude91 1 year ago
anti mainstream anti fame? give me a break thats just what they want you to think.... then why sellout to target if you hate fame .. no matter what PJ fans will buy the newest PJ CD so whats the need for a commerical? plus eddie vedder was in a romantic comedy back in the day yet around 93' he was bitching about how he hated being famous... it just doesnt add up
stpunderground 1 year ago
They COPY Creed?!?!
lol stupid ass
ericanderson5371 1 year ago
@ericanderson5371 second that
yutrsa 1 year ago
they copy the creed. they suck
Rahulgaploo 1 year ago
@Rahulgaploo sad
yutrsa 1 year ago
Dear God, Pearl Jam. Why?!
FuckingStanz 1 year ago
FFFFFFFAP AGAIN FFFFFfAP AGAIN FFFFFFFAP AGAIN
YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
rickrokks 1 year ago
did they sold out?
synergysouls 1 year ago
I agree that the commercial is a bit degrading for their standards but they rarely market albums like this and I think people love jumping on the "he/she sell out" bandwagon, it gives them an artificial sense of satisfaction i guess. If you listen to the album it isn't A-grade PJ material but the album has some great tracks and Vedder still has a solid voice. Let the haters hate, PJ will play on and continue to make good music.....
camhirtle 1 year ago
i thought it was very interesting to see Pearl Jam in a Target Ad promoting their music. Its kinda like michael moore talking crap about the government not giving a damn about the poor and then he goes and applies for food stamps and unemployment checks.
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Airhead732288 2 years ago
When I first saw it on T.V., I wanted that song immediately. Pearl Jam rocks!
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Hey it's a cool video I like how they subtly work in the Target logo on occasion in the video look closely if you didn't notice the first time once you see it you'll be like "OMG I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT AT FIRST!!!!"
Also, the lyrics "Gotta fight to get it back again" are particularly salient considering how broke they must've been to have stooped to this level.
grainbelt01 2 years ago
Bottom line is that Pearl Jam agreed to do a video for Target. This was their decision.
This is the epitome of a SELL OUT.
They have stood for everything BUT this...remember, the Ticketmaster charade? And now, they are working for the man! jeeesh!
jblues74 2 years ago
It wasn't a video made for Target it was a video made for tthe fixer they used it in the Target commercial. Pearl Jam a sellout you don't have a clue let's see what was a bigger corporation Sony or Target? Sony obviously! You don't go to a smaller corporation to become a sellout. Think! I don't know any bands as big as Pearl Jam without a record company. Leaving a record company selling out! Do you even know what selling out is?
corduroykelly 2 years ago
Picture this: somewhere down the line all members of PJ besides Eddie left. Eddie deicides to keep the name & find 2nd rate musicians & continue as PJ. they come out with an album sounding more like creed. They repackage themselves to look more like they did in the early 90s. They all grow their long hair and start a "grunge is back" campaign. & of course they start doing music videos. APPRECIATE WHAT U HAVE PEOPLE! PJ is still 1 of the best despite what people say. get over it people!!!!
Laminateddeffect 2 years ago
PJ= PEARL JOB
mysay12 2 years ago
I have to disagree, i believe that this is just their way of saying "we;re ready to play ball again"
Plus this isnt the first time they've been on a commercial for target. Back in 2002 target was advertising their album riot act yet nobody backlashed them at the time. Also this promoting of the band wasn't done to the same extent that say Green day has done. Their popularity & re packaging to market themselves to teens of today is the epitome of selling. PJ has always done things their own way.
Laminateddeffect 2 years ago 2
When PJ came out, things were a lot different. Now they are one of the greatest rock bands of all time about to celebrate 20 years of music. The new record has been on rotation nonstop since I bought it at Target, and is the first record I have really embraced and loved since No Code.
Pearl Jam is an American treasure. The music industry today is nothing like it was in 1991. Pearl Jam is a LIVE band that has found a way to promote the new record. Good job. Other bands should be so lucky
junkbuddhist 2 years ago
EPIC SELLOUT
aallppiinnee 2 years ago
Sony was a bigger corporation that Target. How do you sellout going to a smaller corporation? I notice no one can ever answer this! Pearl Jam is the most legendary band in U.S history. No one is better!
corduroykelly 2 years ago 3
It looks like someones gonna open up for the Jonas Bros. in their next concert!!!
colaship 2 years ago
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trarcomavaglio1 2 years ago
Bottom line: the album is great. End of story.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago 3
no, bottom line:
Pearl Jam sold out!
mtgrunge 2 years ago
I really enjoy the album. As long as the music's good, I don't give a shit. Look at Chris Cornell collaborating with fuckin Timbaland... That's selling out in a big fucking way in my book! The industry is changing, and PJ gotta roll with it. But I give it to you, this commercial sucks ass! But as I said, as long as the music' rocks, I'm all good.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
I completely agree. Sad.
slovan 2 years ago
HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE HELL
irishrng 2 years ago
can you say sellout? i guess its the only way these days.. ;(
antidote023 2 years ago
Yeah, bro...
It's rough these days even for superstars.
They don't have room for the luxury of saying, "I never made a commercial."
joeboi85 2 years ago
wow...pathetic
timdelvecchio 2 years ago
"I aint singin for Pepsi, aint singin for Coke
aint singin for Budweiser -- its just one big joke!" THIS NOTES FOR YOU
Where is Neil when we need him!
mtgrunge 2 years ago 2
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Pearl Jam hasn't released a good song since the 90's. Face it, they're dead and have been for a while.
Jesse93z 2 years ago
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dckuha 2 years ago
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@Jesse93z:
What are you fucking talking about? Backspacer is mediocre at best, but Riot Act and the self-titled album are awesome.
dckuha 2 years ago
shows the state of the music industry when PJ has to swallow their pride and sign a big distribution deal
KCommiss 2 years ago
this really saddens me.
knight8232 2 years ago
pj rock always have if you dont like it fuck off
selockram 2 years ago 10
Are you?
CarlitoBurrito1774 2 years ago
I love the new single. The video is good as well. I'm a diehard PJ fan and it gets my seal of approval!
wadescott42 2 years ago
You sicken me ! They sold out to a corporate monster! Stick your seal up your ass! Poser!
poopydoolarroo 2 years ago
I will not!! You are angry young man! I love you anyway.. Obama loves you to!
wadescott42 2 years ago
I think everyone has missed the point that Pearl Jam got Target to carry vinly for the first time and as Eddie said on Seattle Bootleg, now if they only sold record players.
stoneddude11 2 years ago
Can everyone just calm down about Pearl Jam selling out. This is not the music video with any product placement, its obviously been edited by target to get their name in there
CarlitoBurrito1774 2 years ago
I hope you're joking.
IHateEverythingXD 2 years ago 2
Whatever dude. Of course you're going to be negative. I'll leave you guys to stew in your own hatred.
CarlitoBurrito1774 2 years ago
This IS the video with product placement. Look it up. They had a deal with Target.
IHateEverythingXD 2 years ago
I meant this isn't the ACTUAL Pearl Jam music video to The Fixer. I know they had a deal with target so what!
CarlitoBurrito1774 2 years ago
faggot !!!!!!!!!!
poopydoolarroo 2 years ago
fuck...
seaptown 2 years ago
ok ok imagine if these were the lyrics sung by eddie vedder....
"when rockstars get..OOOOooooooolllld...........they sell out to tar-get..."
too funny to me
mustbetheone1 2 years ago
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Lol this commercial is so fcking gay
I always make fun of it and claim mah litol bro likes it and he gets mad
Haha how can yu listen to some longhaired hillbilly crap music?
Dumbasses
chumplaz 2 years ago
Keep studying those pick up movies, don't take your frustration out on people with taste. And learn how to spell right, that should probably give you more luck with the ladies.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
OMG!!!! I see my choir teacher in there. She's the blonde in the black at 0:26
Hermione162 2 years ago
oh yeah we totally see her, faggot
ZACHY12992 2 years ago
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Soar101 2 years ago
For fucksake, if they want to do a fucking Target commercial, they can do a Target commercial.
People forget that they're just human beings like the rest of us. What gives us the right the judge their actions?
If this commercial has "hurt" you in some way, then get over yourself. Pearl Jam will always ALWAYS kickass, no matter what they do.
MrsKretschmann 2 years ago
They are only being Judged because of Vedder's grand standing and pretentious douche-baggery back in the 90's when they were on top. Now that, that are, errr somewhat, "yesterday's news" they have to bay it up with the rest of the sheep and sell out. Call it Swaggart syndrome, if you are too young to know what that means, google Jimmy Swaggart and see what happened to him.
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Well, I think that's a bit of a generalisation.
MrsKretschmann 2 years ago
Im really not trying to get that deep with this. I just think its funny how 15 Years ago Vedder and PJ, was all about fighting corporate America and now they are right on the bandwagon.
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago 3
Its so funny that you've spent a better part of the evening arguing about it w/ strangers and singing the merits of a band nobody ever listens to? The reason Slayer cant sell out is because nobody likes their music....well, ok, you do, but that is neither here nor there. And I think I just made my point....
bakerbeave 2 years ago
Im not going to get into a 7th grader arguement about who listens to or doesn't listen a certain band, it is a useless and juvenile argument. It's a matter of taste, and beauty is in the Eye, or in this case, the Ear of the beholder. So please, lets stay on topic, the fact the Eddie Chedder and PJ has sold out!!!....
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
ha. but 7th grade is when we listened to pearl jam the most. arguing about pearl jam and alice in chains is among the best forms of nostalgia. just kidding, i love jar of flies. anyway, yeah, back to the point of eddie's target tattoo at the beginning. although, it wasn't on his hand for any of the more zoomed out shots, so maybe it was someone else's hand. i dunno if that would make it better or worse.
wackydelly84 2 years ago
Well, to give you some perspective, when you were listening to PJ in 7th grade (im assuming the 10 album), i was in just turning 21. Weather it was his hand or not, is irrelevant, it what meant to look as if it was his hand, and that is very symbolic proof that they sold out. I really dont care if they did, hey if it promotes their album, then thats what they are supposed to do, unless of course they wanted to put out a record so nobody would buy it. Im just pointing out the hypocrisy.
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Its not the fact they the did a target AD, the point of being a rock star is to be famous....no matter how much people like Chedder claim they are against it. But when they get on the artistic high horse, the open themselves up to criticism when they double back on their own words.
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Amen,GreatHamdini"I saw PJ in DC in Jun.paid an arm n leg to see them but NO BIG SCREEN. they're 2 "real" for THAT.now the Target ad.hilarious. GH nailed it. they opened themselves up 2 criticism. they were holier than thou their whole career..now they ARE..the "man." Don't you just love people that get worked up when their fav celebs are critiqued? These are the same jackasses that get in fights at sports events when "their" team loses..as if it actually has something to do w/ THEM. lol.
RNDEESKS 2 years ago
Unfortunately, musicians tend to turn out to be the BIGGEST Hypocritical douchebags there are.
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Sad. I loved that band or soooo long. It's all soapbox bullshit...til something actually affects THEM...then it's another story.
RNDEESKS 2 years ago
It's all very Hollywood, just like limousine Liberals (socialists) like Michael Moore. Preach to everyone else yet afford themselves the benefits of the very thing they claim to protest. Like Al Gore and his Gulfstream 2
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Precisely. Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" exemplifies this point. Mmm..I'm guessing it's the one book of his that Hollywood will not option for a movie. To do that, they'd have to come to grips with a *real* inconvenient truth.
RNDEESKS 2 years ago
yip.
not2late2liberate 2 years ago
Everything about this makes my soul hurt. After years of yelling at corporate America and sticking up for the fans against Ticketmaster and all that other anti-establishment passion, this really feels like the rug has been pulled out from under us. Maybe they were overly angry but they were the only ones in the mainstream keeping art away from money. Dammit all.
Soar101 2 years ago
HEY!!...WTF...Mr. Anti-corperate America himself, Eddie "Im so deep" Vedder...selling out like a French whore on a busy Saturday....LMAO. Thats too funny, I always knew there was a reason I hated Pearl Jam.....Kurt Cobain would be turning in his grave, that is if he could hear or see it, cept for that pesky shotgun blast that took his head off...HA HA!!!
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
The absolute best part of this AD is Eddie's Target logo Tattoo on his arm....LMAO-ROFL.....Go Get em Mr. Grunge....sell that schit out!!!....I got two words for ya Eddie.....EFFIN SLAYER!!!!
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
I'm a dedicated Pearl Jam fan and have listened to them for a long long time but this is fucking disgusting. At the concert I went to Eddie Vedder talked about how he went to pick up the album at Target. I guess the band is now humping Targets leg.
nedak 2 years ago
What do you care? it's not like you get anything out of it...your just a whiny little douchebag who's opinions mean nothing..and nobody gives a crap if your a dedicated fan(which your obviously not)... just keep your mouth shut and be happy about the new album instead of complain about a commerical...do you have anything else to do besides whine? And if you have something to say, try to use intelligent words instead of F#&@ or s@#$ like a retarded imbecile.
CombluRevolution 2 years ago
Because art is not a product, Eddie realized this a long time ago, it's time for you to. Also, how could you judge and say that I'm not a dedicated fan? I've listened to them since Ten, as have a lot of my family. What a hypocritical statement, "do you have anything else to do but whine", yes, I'm not whining, but you are. Is it so hard to take that your favorite band is selling out? They're one of my favorite bands, yet I've come to the accepting that they're selling out.
nedak 2 years ago
Why are you still talking?
I really don't care what you have to say..I'm surprising myself that I'm even wasting my time replying a socalled "dedicated fan" who clearly just doesn't get it...I'm done talking to you,if I speak to you any more my IQ will just keep dropping. Unlike you I need my brain.
CombluRevolution 2 years ago
Hahaha keep replying pal.
You're not a fan.
I see on your profile you like Radiohead, do you think Radiohead would make a fucking commercial to promote a big corporate giant like Target with their "art"?
Do the evolution, Pearl Jam.
nedak 2 years ago
Oh Believe me, Radiohead will soon enough be seen on WalFarts ADs. They will sell out, just like all the pretentious so called "Artists" do. That is unless your band is called SLAYER, who has been around and STAYED around longer than all of the above and have never sold out!!!!!....ANGEL OF DEATH!!!!!....
Pearl Jam was the Bon Jovi of the 90's....
Go Eddie!!! Get another Target Logo Tattoo...asshole....LMAO
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Stop trolling.
nedak 2 years ago
Im not Trolling....ass. I came here because I was a 20 something in the 90's when Vedder was doing all his "anti-corperate-america" crap, I hated his pretentious crap then, And Im getting a HUGE laugh about it now, seeing how he sold out, I mean the Target Logo Tattoo on his hand is JUST TOO MUCH....LMAO......Go Eddie!!!
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
slayer couldn't sell out if they wanted to cuz nobody likes them to begin with. ha. i'm kidding actually, i've never listened to slayer. but i feel like i have. i see them like a movie that gives it all away in the trailer so you don't have to watch to understand what it's all about. i could be wrong, but judging by your commentary i doubt that i am. anyway, rock on. whatever floats yer boat. i mean i don't care that much. it's just, nostalgia is nice, and this makes me feel cheated as a child.
wackydelly84 2 years ago
I'm using Slayer as the ultimate counterpoint to Pearl Jam. Sure you'll never see Slayer "sell out'" a 30,000 seat venue on their own. But the have been the same uncompromising band with and uncompromising sound that they have had since the late 80's. Im not saying musically either PJ or SLayer is better, its a matter of taste, I prefer Metal over Grunge, not withstanding Alice in Chains (who Effin rocks...btw). I'm just pointing out, the irony of PJ selling out, so big.
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Art is not a product? Art is the biggest product out there, my friend. Have you ever been to an "art gallery?" you pay exorbitant amounts of money because you percieve it as being "art." If they dont make any money on the product, they dont get to make the product anymore. Simple supply and demand. Art is a big fat product, even if you want to beleive otherwise.
bakerbeave 2 years ago
thing is, i don't think anyone disagrees with any of the points you have been making. art is a product. people do get old. the internet does make it too easy to access free music. blah blah. we all agree on all the facts. this is a matter of opinion that we are fighting over. like i said, it makes perfect sense that pearl jam would do this, but that doesn't make it right. logical, or uh . . . pragamatic, are not always correct or good or admirable. you are defending a fucked up system.
wackydelly84 2 years ago
i think maybe my point was lost in my rambling, so let me be more concise . . .
you are explaining this like "well, that's the way it is, so it's fine, just accept it, it's ok, cuz it's typical, it happens, stop wining"
and our point is "that is the way it is, but it shouldn't be. just cuz something is normal doesn't make it right. and in this specific case, it's extra not right because of the hypocrisy, pearl jam has always been against this."
wackydelly84 2 years ago
this is so embarrising for the band, in the 90's when they got famous they got embarresed on the account that the mainsream thought there music was good, and tried to help out the underground the best they could. now look at them...
internash 2 years ago
I'm totally in this video! Its the Showbox at the Market in Seattle!
drumdude392 2 years ago
Ok, in case anyone is missing what is happening in the music business, no one is making ANY money. Its not selling out to make a brilliant record and then SELL IT at one of the biggest retail chains in the country. They are in the business of making money....and this "sell out" starving artist nonsense is what young punks say to justify their crappy music that no one will ever hear. Pearl Jam has consistently, for two decades, made solid rock music...if you dont like it, dont buy it. Duh.
bakerbeave 2 years ago 2
what you are missing is that pearl jam used to speak to those young punks specifically. they never needed to do this back when they represented youthful energy. now they are clearly crying out for attention. it's sad.
wackydelly84 2 years ago
I'm not missing it, friend, its just that all us young punks got older and got jobs. it happens to the best of us, and it will happen to you too....sadly. progression of life, baby doll. Sucks as it might.
bakerbeave 2 years ago
i already got old too, but yer never gonna see me rockin out to a target ad. i admire yer optimism, but come on, you have to see this as pathetic. let me put it this way, when i saw the blackberry loves u2 ad, it did not surprise me at all, and played right into my u2 hatred. when i saw black eyed peas doing pepsi ads, no surprise. i mean, admit that some artists are ok with being commercials, others aren't. the reason everyone is reacting right now is because this is very unpearjamish.
wackydelly84 2 years ago
oops, missed an l . . . unpearljamish.
if they had been all about this all along, then it would be no big deal. this is weird cuz it is exactly the opposite of what they stood for. if it isn't and this was always secretly their goal, then we've been lied to. so it's up to you now to believe either bad option. did they sell out, or have they always sucked? honestly, i'd rather believe they got old and made a huge mistake. but don't pretend that this is not a mistake just cuz it makes sense.
wackydelly84 2 years ago
Exactly. If this was their thing it wouldn't be a big deal, but so many times they've insulted other bands and said "fuck you" to the corporations. I mean, look at Do the Evolution, a music video to say "Fuck you MTV you corporate cocksucking whore". And then they do this shit.
nedak 2 years ago
Look at it however you want, kids, but this is the only way to make money in music today. They arent advertising for Target, they are advertising for Pearl Jam. And probably wouldn't have to if people couldn't steal/download for free their music on so many different avenues on the net. This isnt PJ hawking blackberry or pepsi....its PJ selling their album. Not sure how that is selling out, but I guess it gives ppl something to talk about. Explaining the venom in the 9000 posts here. lame.
bakerbeave 2 years ago
i'm not trying to get the last word here, i just . . . completely disagree with you. you can't say they aren't advertising for target in a target ad. you don't have to decide if this is a pearl jam ad or a target ad, it's clearly both at the same time. they mutually benefit from each other's endorsement. i don't know why i'm explaining this, it should be obvious. you are giving pearl jam way more credit than they deserve. telling you where to buy their album is not "just selling their album."
wackydelly84 2 years ago
Then don't buy it...you show the man, by saving your 11.99!! Maybe you can just give your money to the charity directly. Those ffing sell outs and their damned charities. Who do they think they are fooling??? (ps, in case you cant read the sublte language of sarcasm...this was it)
bakerbeave 2 years ago
PS#2..you will never get the last word with me, i have a vagina. perhaps you have heard about us :)
bakerbeave 2 years ago
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i downloaded this 30 second ad to my iPod. This 30 second cutout is so much better than the actual song......thumbs up if you agree.
Mikespyke 2 years ago
Wow First We'll never sellout. Then they make you join fan club to get tickets that they're the only people making money. The they sell their souls to suck the target. And remeber that charity work is free puplicity and all they did was do TV spot and talk about an issue.
srturtle71 2 years ago
Sell-Out? Maybe in the pre-internet world. The music will either speak for itself or conform to the big corporate music machine with contrived "hits". I tend to look at music for what it is and on it's own merit and less on the vehicle for selling albums. There's a lot of GREAT talent out there that will only be mildly discovered if they hold on the outdated notion of being a sell-out. The business of selling your music is totally separate from your creations in the studio and on the road.
donjohnson86 2 years ago
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donjohnson86 2 years ago
Pearl Jam are the opposite of sell outs... anyone who has followed the band and/or put more than 0.7 seconds worth of thought into it would understand that...but I guess you have to expect the average-idiot knee jerk "Sell OUT" reaction when you see a target symbol and PJ together.
Long Live the mighty Pearl Jam!!!
ReferralWingman 2 years ago
so when you do tv ads with a major buissness , that is not selling out ?!
shop here and buy my album !
pearl jam should not have faked out and sold out long ago when they could have some real money !
poopydoolarroo 2 years ago
Pearl Jam have,and always will,smoke the ripest bone.
Eddie Vedder is the worst kind of poser,who shills out for everybody down to the U.N.
What a fuckarow.
You oughtta pull your head out from the shallow end of the Metro Spa,Son.
TheOBAMATRON 2 years ago
when PJ toured w/ U2 in '92-'93, i read an article about eddie v being conflicted about u2's big money corporate mentality and how he didn't like being a part of it. bono kept telling him "you'll understand as you get older and spend more time in the business". i guess now eddie understands. i'm a fan of both PJ & U2, and PJ fan friends used to give me shit about U2 selling out. it's a sad reality: as we get older, our idealism becomes negotiable. unfortunately, that's how the real world works.
022171 2 years ago
I thought pearl jam was anti-corperation. now look at them sucking the target cock. i always knew that eddie vedder was a homo but i never knew he was a gold digging whore.
poopydoolarroo 2 years ago
this person... as indicated by his username... is clearly an idiot and a fool
ReferralWingman 2 years ago
They have always been great with doing stuff for charity.
EclipseProjectFilms 2 years ago
I guess people don't realize that ever since Napster hit it big, the music industry has gone down the toilet. Every asshole and their mother downloads shit for free. What did you think was going to happen?
Bands now have to make deals to sell their albums exclusively at certain stores in order to stay afloat. It could have been worse PJ could have sold their album exclusively at Walmart! (Fuck that store!)
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auburntiger13 2 years ago
WOW!!! I never thought Peal Jam would sell out. But they proved me wrong, They must be broke. Just imagine if they would have gone with the flow of normal bands. They would have had more money and videos. They are playing here in Portland Oregon and it did not even sell out.
dannycandor 2 years ago 2
How is it they didn't "sell out" in the first place?
They sold out, then pulled back from the spotlight after they hit it big to milk their "we're not sell-outs" mystique.
ariesvids 2 years ago
OMG... Perfect music...!
\o/
hpkluch 2 years ago
people stress things much , just build a bridge and get the fuck over it XD
Sk8boner3 2 years ago
lol i saw this commercial and i went on ehre to look for the song and i typed in toe jam instead of pearl jam XD
dontcareboutname1 2 years ago
the vocals are amazing as always the instrumental is amazing as always. this is simply a great album regardless of where its being sold or how its being advertised!
redzebrapants 2 years ago 2
I can't believe all these shameless punks accusing Pearl Jam of selling out! After all the sacrifices this band has made over the years... They used to be THE biggest band around, and could easily continued to be so if they wanted to. I mean, they write and perform the shit out of, say, U2. But they took another route, outside the mainstream. And this is the shit you get? Fuck all of you nagging sad fucks! Me, I'm putting on Unthought Known and having another magic moment.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago 6
When you can buy a record anywhere you don't need to make an exclusive commercial but pearl jam had too. In order to let people know where to buy it!
corduroykelly 2 years ago
I guess they just wanted to make fans aware of where to get the CD - if the Tenclub would have had the capabilties to distribute thousands of CDs/LPs at once, I'm sure they would have done it that way. Maybe next time
EnolaFall 2 years ago
right... because if there is one thing people who listen to music don't know how to do, it's where to buy a CD. wishful thinking. maybe next time
mjxc1627 2 years ago
well considering target is the only major retailer to carry the cd it is a good idea to let people know your not a sell out when you leave your record company Who's the bigger corporation Target or Sony? Going to the smaller corporation is the opposite of selling out!
corduroykelly 2 years ago
dude its f*cking Pearl Jam. they could sell that shit out of the back of a van and idiots would buy it up. target is not a production company like sony is, and i don't remember a cheep ass sony ad featuring Pearl Jam preforming live. its selling out man
mjxc1627 2 years ago
If you leave a giant corporation like Sony who is your record company and go on your own you know independent like all bands wish they could do it is not selling out. You don't sell out going to a smaller corporation to distribute your album. They leave the biggest record company in the world and you call them sell outs LOL!
corduroykelly 2 years ago
Not to mention the video was not made just for Target it was the video for the song. Oh and if you knew about pearl jam you would know they made a commercial for yield also. Look it up on you tube that was back in 98 with Sony! You have to distribute your album somehow without a record company and just doing it online sucks.
corduroykelly 2 years ago
I am in between on this. They did it on their own steam...got away from the record label. Doing the Target thing does go against all they stood for back in the day. I also saw at the very end of the MLB All-Star game The Fixer was played. I also saw on ESPN Sports Center they played a different song from the album every day. Did they sell out and become a corporate rock band...no. Are they using the corporate machine to push records...yes.
CMORGAN14 2 years ago
Call yourself a PJ fan when you know what the hell is really going on. THEY DID NOT SELL OUT. They made an independent album AWAY FROM THEIR RECORD LABEL and it is available at Target. They made a commercial promoting their album and the store in which to purchase it. YOUR LUCID DUMBASS SHOULD BE WORKING IN A SWEATSHOP.
budahhfly 2 years ago
I Love pearl jam...But this makes me sick. I remember eddie talking about how much of a sellout it was to be in a commercial....now here we are. He was one of the ones who made me HATE CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......Does he even realize how many SWEATSHOPS TARGET HAS. I'm so sad from this....
lucidclouds 2 years ago
Please help me understand this: How can leaving major record label Sony and releasing an album on their own be selling out? So what they made a commercial. Big fucking deal! I guess you'd like them to make a couple of hundred old fashion cassette tapes and give them away for free from their garage, exclusively to wannabe bona fide morons like yourself? Dude, grow the fuck up.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
Eddie vedder has said he was disappointed when he seen old rockers in commercials. Now look where hes at. Yes, they need to get their music out, but to have a target commercial, promoting target. Did they ever have a sony commercial saying "buy things made by sony"..?.. NO! Sorry but playing anti-sweatshop shows to promoting target is selling out.
lucidclouds 2 years ago
Jesus Christ it's not easy being a rock n' roller these days. If this is a sell out, what the hell would you call Chris Cornell's desperate attempt at... something with Timbaland? Now THAT'S selling out. See the difference? Pearl Jam made a great rock record, and that's all I care about.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
There not saying buy things at Target genius there saying you can buy there album at Target. No other major retailer carries it how else should they let people know drive around until they figure it out?
corduroykelly 2 years ago
Your mom sold out when she made that porno.
LanceUppercut01 2 years ago
I'm a PJ fan for 20 years now and i'm shocked that they have sold out and did a Target commercial. WTF? Why? did they burn threw the money they made over the years? Turns my stomach! Anti-establishment whatever!
grazeley1971 2 years ago
Wow I didnt realize making a commercial to promote a CD was selling out. I guess that makes Nirvana, The Beatles, and Led Zeppelin sellouts.
spidermej 2 years ago
Witch one of those bands made a Target commercial again?
grazeley1971 2 years ago
its an alrite album but all the classic rocks albums arent tht good so far guns n roses new album sucked
munchysallthetime 2 years ago
Listen up. Chris Cornell sold out, Pearl Jam didn't. Wannabe rock puritan assholes who can't spot the difference; fuck off! End of story.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
Funny you said "spot" the difference, do you mean big Red spot, or should i say Bullseye like the Target logo Tattoo on Eddie Chedder's hand.
Pearl Jam= SELL OUTs
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago
Dude, you should research this. The Target deal makes sense if you read up on it. Ignorant prick.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
you're missing my point, I actually agree with it, using target is good business sense. Im just laughing at PJ's hypocrisy. I dont think using a major chain is selling out, unless of course the persons preached against it for so long then did a 180
TheGreatHamdini 2 years ago 2
Goddammit, here I go again: PJ used to be signed with Sony. Major league record company! After hitting the bigtime they fulfilled their contract by releasing several experimental, non-commercial records, which they did not promote. Now they're self-releasing an album for the first time.Very un-selloutish!
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
LOL! The grungers are givin a free pass to Pearl Jam??
BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES!!
Another prove that the 90's fail hard!
thefonkykid 2 years ago
However they cannot distribute it from their garage, so they needed to cut a deal. They could've taken Wal-Mart on, that would've been easy. They chose Target, mainly because Target would allow the hundreds of independent record stores around America to distribute it too. So you see, they are not doing a 180. As for the commercial, yeah it sucks, but they gotto let people know where to find the album somehow.
pjokkenroll 2 years ago
Let me explain the diference between the 80's and 90's acts.
80's acts were more honest saying we're selling out because we need our music out there. We want $ too.
90's acts say we don't belive in selling out, we're honest and pure, we repect art. we don't need to be super stars.
Look at Billy Corgan trashing his fans because the low sales.
Look at Cornell making albums with Justin Timbarlake!
And now Pearl Jam doing Target ads!!! Anyone that say that this is indie is a blind fanatic.
powersoulboy 2 years ago
pearl jam and target together is the real america. I bought it for only 11.98 and the album is really good,but not as good as the avacodo album....but close.
ohmah70 2 years ago
Man, this new Target jingle really sucks.
MisterNanigashi 2 years ago 4
its obvious that target payed them for this commercial, so bottom line, they sold-out. No way around it
keeb44 2 years ago
dumb fuck its a independent album just like gnr and ac/dc
theboner123 2 years ago
I'm glad they self-released this one, you can really hear they did what they wanted to do. I like it.
Leocloet 2 years ago
Pearl Jam will always be the anti-sellouts
:)
N im really loving this song lol.
HappEsnotBear 2 years ago
..They were on MTV back in the day and now have a Target commercial, how are they not sell-outs?
Don't get me wrong, I don't hold them on a pedestal or have much respect for them, but I thought they were above this.
ElasticVag 2 years ago