Years later I’m still laughing about how irrationally angry people got for getting a free album from U2 downloaded to their phone. “No music without my consent!!!” lmfao - ThreadSky

beckybunzy.bsky.social • 63 days ago

Years later I’m still laughing about how irrationally angry people got for getting a free album from U2 downloaded to their phone.

“No music without my consent!!!” lmfao

Comments

beckybunzy.bsky.social•63 days ago

Just a slippery slope to dictatorship. 🚬🦆

sheckydoskie.bsky.social•63 days ago

Lol

bw500.bsky.social•63 days ago

People were pissed because it was a dud!

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•62 days ago

So just delete it.

bw500.bsky.social•62 days ago

Wasn’t there a problem with deleting it?

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•62 days ago

Nope.

jeffas.bsky.social•62 days ago

Wait, are you telling me I didn't need to throw out my iPod to get rid of that garbage?

kennyriot.bsky.social•63 days ago

That space was sacred, peeps couldn't expand it with an SD card, hahahaha.

Motherfuckers woke up like, "I don't listen to U2, THE FUCK IS THIS!?!"

beckybunzy.bsky.social•63 days ago

😈

easybakedoven.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yeah, they posted all over Facebook about it

beckybunzy.bsky.social•63 days ago

😭😭😭

chodeyfosterr.bsky.social•63 days ago

I was more pissed at how it was nearly impossible to delete

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•62 days ago

I found it to be as easy as deleting anything else.

chodeyfosterr.bsky.social•62 days ago

There is a chance that I’m just stupid, but I was never even able to delete it

otisredfoot.bsky.social•62 days ago

The same people got angry about the photo that came with a picture frame

david-cornelson.bsky.social•63 days ago

Sorry but I’m one of them. It’s like forcing millions of people to put Dogs Playing Poker in their dining room.

You can’t force art on people. It has to be self selected.

It was hubris. That’s why people hated it.

(I disqualify any Beatles auto downloads from this sentiment)😬

sbdcmusic.com•63 days ago

It was one of their best albums too 💁🏾‍♂️

beckybunzy.bsky.social•63 days ago

A song from the album came up in my playlist and I was like this song is lovely. People got big mad. lolz

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•63 days ago

People acted like they were forced to keep it, too.

bobgram73.bsky.social•62 days ago

Cuz it was so hard to delete it if you didn’t want it 🙄

frozenborderline.bsky.social•62 days ago

Bono can be a wanker, not least by having to insert himself into every music doco for the last 20+yrs, but I still like old U2 (and some post-2000 stuff).

beckybunzy.bsky.social•62 days ago

He is so earnest. lolz

frozenborderline.bsky.social•62 days ago

He's mercifully scaled it back these days. We've deffo got bigger fish to fry, now.

falschspieler.com•63 days ago

It’s quite logical to hate U2.

krisjay.bsky.social•63 days ago

Still the only bit of music on the wife’s phone.

jeffthompson48.bsky.social•63 days ago

And women were so brave when they posted selfies without makeup. 😅

oncomouse37.bsky.social•62 days ago

To be sure, subsequent years found ample opportunity to download far worse things onto people's phones or computers with dubious or nonexistent levels of user consent.