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“Weezer is a shitty corporate sell-out band” hasn’t been breaking news in like three decades. Their music video for Buddy Holly came on the Windows 95 installation disc for God’s sake

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It was the only video you could watch without buffering for days with the shitty dial up internet of the time. OH OH AND YOU’RE MARY TYLER MOORE. Fucking kill me.

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I was amazed that the Windows 95 stock Media Player could minimize video to a 32x32 icon at full speed! I played it on loop for hours.

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34 points

That’s pretty sick actually

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5 points

Hey talking of disks does anyone have the full version of the innernette it’s gone from YouTube

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3 points

Or did you mean the tim and Eric skit?

This is the longest clip I could find https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=567713083394530

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That’s honestly the only reason why I know that they exist. I remember thinking that it was a weird name for a band since people who wheeze can’t talk well, let alone sing.

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Oh fuck I wondered why that was on my pc

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159 points

Audio books are free with Libby. Fuck audible. Support libraries.

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74 points

Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books. Which is bullshit if I pay for a book no way should they be allowed to add ads into my books.

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47 points

Worse is Audible is about to put ads in their books.

At least they aren’t putting Weezer songs in their books.

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4 points

Back in my day you had to remove the Weezer from your Windows 95 install disc!

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13 points

There are other ways to get your audiobooks ad-free.

Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, there should be more discussion about ways to get ebooks and audiobooks outside of the major paid platforms like Audible. I was gonna make a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to pirating here, which is viable, but then I realized I couldn’t name 5 legitimate audiobook providers off the top of my head, and I consume a lot of books!

So besides Audible and Libby, can anyone tell me about good, legitimate sources for audiobooks?

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I pay for a subscription to Scribd, i think its like $12 or $14 USD/month. I started using it after I heard an ad on Levar Burton’s short story podcast, “Levar Burton Reads”. His recommendation sold me because he’s a genuine advocate for literacy. I don’t THINK it’s Amazon affiliated, I try not to use Amazon products and services, but it’s getting harder all the time to avoid them. It has slightly less of a selection than audible, but I find many great things on there. It doesn’t have tokens or whatever the audible bullshit is, you can just listen to whatever you want whenever you want. There’s no ads, but it does make recommendations and suggestions, I’m sure those are some kind of sponsored. When I signed up, it also automatically signed me up for a free service called farfaria, or something like that, which is a children’s audio book service. I had no interest in that, but my mother, who is a nanny, really enjoys it. I really really like it, but there are some titles (can’t think of them off the top of my head, but mostly big name and brand new stuff) that aren’t on there that I do feel like I miss out on.

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Yeah I looked too but I really enjoy listening to warhammer audiobooks. Libby is not an option and the libraties here don’t have any of those books available. Audible has every single one the moment they release.

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A booktuber I like uses libro.fm I can’t speak of them myself as I don’t listen to audiobooks

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I like downpour.com, and I have used audible-tools.kamsker.at to remove the DRM from audible.

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2 points

Are they actually? I’m so glad I cancelled my subscription.

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2 points

Was listening to one of my audio books. After chapter 24 it came in with music then was a narrator introducing the book I am currently listening to. Thought my app glicthed and was back at the beginning then after 30 seconds it continued at chapter 25.

Then it did again at chapter 40. I then knew what it was. It a placement for them to put an ad. I owned this book for years and suddenly this was added in.

Think it a test.

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17 points

fuck amazon in general tbh

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9 points

My wife listens to audiobooks constantly. She uses Libby and hasn’t paid for one in years. Highly recommended.

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67 points

We are Weezer and we are here to make money and sell out and stuff!

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12 points

They’re indestructible because they are vegan too

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14 points

Hopefully they remember that chicken parmesan isn’t vegan.

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10 points

I like the joke in the comic better (paraphrased from memory)

“You ate chicken parmesan.”

“whats Parmesan, is it an animal?”

“I don’t know”

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9 points

Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday.

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I love that part of the movie because at the time it premiered I had an acquaintance from university who was vegan. Dude would pass out cold if he stood up too fast. Doctor said that as it turns out, he was doing vegan wrong and he needed to eat meat ASAP to fix the damage to his metabolism. Then, afterwards, if he still wanted to be vegan he would have to supplement way more protein than he was doing before. The contrasting absurdity always cracked me up when they tried to make it as if being vegan gives them superpowers.

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2 points

Then he ate a bacon cheeseburger and won the lottery.

Coincidence? I think not.

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8 points

The ads are really affecting me. I’m reaching my threshold.

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4 points

I’m so ashamed to be a Gen Xer’.

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51 points

I dgaf what that cunt says.

Pinkerton was their peak. It was all downhill from there.

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20 points

It’s like they regressed on Green, but to a radio friendly banger version of Weezer that was pretty good. Then everything after that was just watery goat diarrhea.

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11 points

is this something people care about?

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16 points

It’s something people who listen to Weezer care about.

Personally I like all the music (up to the point where I stopped collecting their music), some of it is just different than others. The later stuff doesn’t have nearly as much of an “anti-establishment” bent to it, and that rubs people who define themselves by the bands they listen to the wrong way.

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3 points

No

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5 points

White album is good.

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4 points

Username checks out.

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2 points

Greatest of all time diarrhea?

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10 points

Pinkerton is good but it’s pretty much just “Weezer does the Pixies.” Listening to Doolittle and Bossanova ruined so many 90s albums for me

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Pinkerton is good but it’s pretty much just “Weezer does the Pixies.” Listening to Doolittle and Bossanova ruined so many 90s albums for me

Bruh I have like, at least two albums in my collection that are quite literally just “Such and such does the pixies”.

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5 points

Yeah Pinkerton was great, the rest is fine

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7 points

I don’t even like Pinkerton now, Rivers’ sex fantasies kinda gross me out

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4 points

Yeah. Listening at 19-20 was like “wow, someone gets me but listening now it’s more like “wow, get therapy and stop bothering these poor women and girls.”

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2 points

That’s fair I haven’t really given it a good listen since I was an angsty teenager

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I would be upset if I paid for an ad. I would probably stop being a fan.

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16 points

I would buy drinks just to throw at them. Like a lot of drinks.

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36 points

That’s just playing right into their hands.

Collect empties and fill them up in the toilets. Recycling!

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7 points

Nah you gotta bring cold bottles of piss with you to the gig. That’s how they know you don’t respect them.

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