Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

Brett the hipster

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Popularity rank 21 #197. Garbled nonsense

January 14, 2009

GREG: Dude, your stereo's all messed up. It's playing three radio stations at once.

GREG: Some Beach Boys song, some Philip Glass album, and... like, an Afro-carribean World music station.
BRETT: Oh... yeah. Yeah, I know.

A pause.

GREG: You thought you were listening to Animal Collective, didn't you?
BRETT: Maybe.

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Popularity rank 22 #196. Time wasted status

January 12, 2009

GREG: Ha! This is great.

GREG: There's this website that calculates how much of your life you've waiting for status bars to get to 100%.

GREG: Mine is...

GREG: Hold on, it's still loading.

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Popularity rank 23 #192. Meeting halfway

January 2, 2009

BRETT: Look, it's a new year, let's resolve to meet each other halfway on this.
GREG: OK. How about...

GREG: YOU... make a fundamental moral shift and stop hating musicians that license their songs to TV shows and commercials.

GREG: And I... will try to stop referring to Iggy Pop as "that Carribean Cruise Line guy."

BRETT: Quite a sacrifice.
GREG: I know. "Iggy" is, like, a TOTALLY weird name.

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Popularity rank 24 #191. Artists should have ideals

December 31, 2008

GREG: So bands shouldn't sell songs to TV shows, movies and commercials?
BRETT: No, it taints them.

GREG: But you're also against them charging for mp3s and, like, copyright in general?
BRETT: Yes. Music should be free.

GREG: How do expect these guys to LIVE? Art takes TIME. It takes MONEY.
BRETT: I just want artists to have IDEALS.

GREG: You also seem to want them to have TRUST FUNDS.

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Popularity rank 25 #190. Corruption-free music

December 29, 2008

GREG: So you won't listen to any band who let their music be used in commercials, movies or TV shows?
BRETT: Yes.

BRETT: I need my music to be free of corruption, so I find music that has never and will never be used for any corporate shilling.

GREG: So where d'you find that?
BRETT: Mainly shitty open mic nights.

BRETT: Only the truly shitty is truly pure.

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