I was reading recently that album sales are way down and that because of this less sales are required to be #1.
Yep, but you still gotta beat all the other people out there selling albums. Streaming revenue is on the rise, now, and bizarrely enough, so are vinyl sales.
They've also started factoring in a number of online stats, which is a medium that lends itself to Al's work much more than traditional methods of distribution.
I am surprised he released the first world problems song. He mentioned a Let it Go Parody called Make it So (Picard) but he said he stopped once he saw it had already been done. I do recall someone else made an excellent First World Problems song a while back.
That has to be the hardest problem for him. Kids on YouTube making parodies before he can.
The merch booths have tickets now. You have to show up at 6am, 3 hours before the floor opens to get them. SDCC is officially too large. I wasn't sure before but I am now.
Edit: ok, not every merch booth. Just the ones you would actually want stuff from.
So I did some Journalism(tm). You do, in fact, have to line up for a ticket into select merch booths like the Hasbro booth. Once you get that ticket you then have to show up at a time of the day when the staff of the booth/random con staff haven't randomly capped the line.
Now this next bit is specific to Hasbro so far as I could tell. If you wanted the con exclusive My Little Pony thing (honestly didn't care enough to find out what it was) they'd scan your badge to see if your badge was "authorized" for the purchase of said con exclusive. From two different sources at the Hasbro booth, only half of all badges were authorized in this manner.
That's right, folks. You have to get up stupidly early, wait through two bullshit lines and then pray you win a coin flip you don't even get to witness before you are allowed to throw money at Hasbro.
I'm dumbfounded by this. I will also admit to being very salty about having zero warning about the ticket system prior to the con. As it turns out, we got in late enough (past 635 am) that I wouldn't have gotten one anyway but that isn't the point.
The point being that it's a day long ritual just to get merch, let alone into one of the top panels without a multiday effort being involved.
I've been going on free passes so the material cost is zero but I have wasted, in total, over a day of my life in stupid persuits. I'm not going back, free badge or not, until this problem is rectified.
This problem will never be rectified. These cons aren't for us.
I was actually explaining this to Chris in the car the other day. She remarked about how there was an Outlander panel she would have liked to have seen. I explained to her she would have had to commit her entire con experience into getting into that panel and even then there was a good chance she wouldn't get in. And you can see anything that's revealed at SDCC on the internet mere moments later on the internet.
That's scarcity for you. Unless you go for things that are available in abundance (e.g. hanging out with cool people), the opportunity cost is going to be exorbitant.
The people who go, report on, and enjoy cons like SDCC expect the experience they get, so it will never change. Most people are at a con like that or NYCC for a few hours to walk around, and attend maybe one "event." Then they go home.
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That has to be the hardest problem for him. Kids on YouTube making parodies before he can.
Edit: ok, not every merch booth. Just the ones you would actually want stuff from.
So I did some Journalism(tm). You do, in fact, have to line up for a ticket into select merch booths like the Hasbro booth. Once you get that ticket you then have to show up at a time of the day when the staff of the booth/random con staff haven't randomly capped the line.
Now this next bit is specific to Hasbro so far as I could tell. If you wanted the con exclusive My Little Pony thing (honestly didn't care enough to find out what it was) they'd scan your badge to see if your badge was "authorized" for the purchase of said con exclusive. From two different sources at the Hasbro booth, only half of all badges were authorized in this manner.
That's right, folks. You have to get up stupidly early, wait through two bullshit lines and then pray you win a coin flip you don't even get to witness before you are allowed to throw money at Hasbro.
I'm dumbfounded by this. I will also admit to being very salty about having zero warning about the ticket system prior to the con. As it turns out, we got in late enough (past 635 am) that I wouldn't have gotten one anyway but that isn't the point.
The point being that it's a day long ritual just to get merch, let alone into one of the top panels without a multiday effort being involved.
I've been going on free passes so the material cost is zero but I have wasted, in total, over a day of my life in stupid persuits. I'm not going back, free badge or not, until this problem is rectified.
CONGRATS YOU GUYS!
Also - Doom on an ATM.
If only it wasn't actually called the Sunlink. What a dumb name.
Also I would actually pay money to play the crap out of a Simon n Marcy version of the Last of Us