Beach Boys Vs IYD

[HejiraNYC]

Um... did you not read the part where they sold 20K copies by performing on QVC? To be honest, I think QVC could package cow s*** and sell a few thousand units in an hour. There are legions of bored/desperate housefraus out in Middle America, who have not quite mastered the concept of using the interwebs, who just buy stuff they see on TV because they have nothing else to do. I don't knock the BB for going down that road- they have certainly done more smarmy/sellout things back in the day. But I would have been extremely shocked and disheartened to see Stevie belting out a song while 1-800 numbers flashed across the screen. It's kinda desperate, ne c'est pas? Yes, Stevie would have probably eked out a slightly higher position on the Billboard charts if she plugged her new album on QVC, but at what cost to her integrity?

And, of course, diehard BB fans are finally coming out of the woodwork, now that it's no longer Mike Love, John Stamos, and a bunch of other hired guns. It's finally legitimate.