Comments on: Say What? – Garth Brooks

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:12:19 +0000

I personally would love to buy his old stuff. I personally don’t want his four new tracks and I was VERY disappointed when I couldn’t find his songs on iTunes. You can buy his songs from various artists singing it, and to me that really pisses me off. I guess I am old fashioned but I don’t want to hear someone else sing Garth Brook’s song.

By: Chris_Gaines

Chris_Gaines — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:38:09 +0000

Garth Brooks sits behind Elvis Presley as the best-selling solo artist in history. He is trying to make a run for the title. It is obviously not about the money anymore for Garth. He will package up 38 disks and slap $11 price on it, just to sell it. I’m not sure how long Garth’s fans are going to put up with this (probably way too long). The whole way that he is going about this is lame!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:26:45 +0000

Garth Brooks is simply obsessed with his album sales numbers. He wants everything sold as a complete album to drive up his album sales numbers. Of course people would just buy the four new tracks! He has been repackaging the same songs for years. That is all the Walmart boxed set amounted to … driving up his numbers. He is going to pull every trick in the book to jack up album sales totals (including packaging multiple disks together). He has been doing this since his “Double Live” CD, which counted as a sale of 2 CD’s instead of 1! This is getting ridiculous Garth! The only reason that he resists digital music is because he’s afraid that he will miss out on precious album sales totals. I do not buy his “experience the whole package” line at all. When an artist repeatedly adds a couple of new songs to a pile of other recycled songs, it doesn’t even represent a cohesive album.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:09:48 +0000

I am a huge Garth fan, and I actually watched the online broadcast from last Saturday that they had on garthbrooks.com. He explained that they DID meet with the people of iTunes to discuss releasing his catalog online, but each side had one stick-up. And that stick-up was the fact that iTunes sells albums and single songs, but Garth makes albums. He referenced that “No Fences” has his huge hit “Friends in Low Places,” but also contains “Wolves,” which he also holds dear to him. He wants the people buying his music to experience the whole package. He also discussed the artwork that goes into an album and how that’s starting to fade away. Maybe I’m just an old soul myself, but I fully agree with him. I’m 24 and I can’t wait to run out to the store and GET MY HANDS ON Garth’s “The Ultimate Hits” album! Nothing beats that feeling of holding that CD in your hands as you turn up the volume on your stereo. Of course, I’ll add it to my iPod too, so I can listen to it at work. I really don’t grasp what everyone is fusing about…guess I’m the weird one.