Get well fucked, Wired person.I still have one, Simon and Garfunkel’s Bookends, because, while Apple design may be the coolest thing around, the company has always, always had shitty taste in music. (See also: U2.)
It’s amidst this disposable culture that Apple took the unprecedented move of adding U2’s latest album, “Songs of Innocence,” to half a billion iTunes users’ libraries. People were pissed. I’m talking some truly next level Twitter outrage last week. You’d think Tim Cook had penned a Peter Shih-style Medium post about how much he hates poor people. Industry analyst Bob Lefsetz said it was “no different from a rape or a murder, but with even less legs.” iOS developer Dan Wiseman was more subdued, tweeting, “Evolution of music sales: 1. Pay a lot 2. Pay a little 3. Pay anything 4. OK fine, just pay once a month 5. Fuck you, now you own a U2 album.”
It's hilariously fashionable to hate on U2 right now.