The end of the world as we know it – Starbucks releases Ramones album
The end of the world as we know it – Starbucks releases Ramones album
September 30, 2012. 1:22 pm
To riff on a lyric from another great band – it’s the end of the world as we know it and I DON’T feel fine.
So I stumble into Starbucks Sunday morning, groggy, looking to buy a pound of over-priced coffee to feed my espresso machine at home. It’s been a rough weekend on the cafe front. I was also out of coffee Saturday morning, ran out to buy some and came back with a pound of drip coffee grains – which comes out of my machine tasting like dishwater. So yes I was kind of desperate, which explains why I stooped to going into FiveBucks.
So imagine my shock when I saw this at the cash.
It’s a Starbucks Ramones compilation. Titled Rockaway Beach – original!!! – it features some of Da Brudders’ greatest smash hits, including I Wanna Be Sedated, Californian Sun (!), I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and Sheena Is a Punk Rocker. Just to be clear here, I didn’t buy the thing. Firstly cos I already have multiple copies of all these songs and secondly cos I want no part of encouraging Starbucks executives to think it’s alright to mix their cosy latte culture with the guys who invented punk rock.
I mean what the heck is wrong with this picture? ‘Hi, I’ll have a mezzo non-fat low-IQ no-foam no-coffee carmel latte…..and oh yeah throw in one Ramones CD.’
——>Continued
“Sniff some glue with your latte?”