With today's forms of communication you can email a friend a link to a band's site and they can hear them instantly – so why do you need to be officially mandated to do that? The use of the term "team" is very popular in the corporate world, everybody working for the common cause, which is basically the good of the management – who are making the largest (i.e. grossly inflated) percentage of the profit. I'm disappointed that the music industry is embracing this model through street teams. And I'm sure there's at least one major label A & R rep somewhere laughing his ass off about it.

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Originally posted by Noitall:
Remember back in the day when a friend told you that a new record was wicked and you just couldn't wait to get your hands on it? Because you knew they had listened to it a million times already – they didn't just receive some promo email written by a marketing representative.

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A dozen Burger King marketing execs suffer first- and second-degree burns while walking over hot coals as part of a team-building retreat in October. One of the injured, a VP for product marketing aptly named Dana Frydman, tries to put a positive spin on having her feet flame-broiled like so much ground chuck. "It made you feel a sense of empowerment and that you can accomplish anything," she tells the Miami Herald.

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Originally posted by Noitall:
The use of the term "team" is very popular in the corporate world, everybody working for the common cause, which is basically the good of the management.

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It Doesnt do any good to inquier to the Frosted-Tips Spikey-Head Sales Boy Manager about it either. The response is always the same...
"No...i never heard of Voivod. Would you like to get the new Bon Jovi instead?"

I live in a college town in the center of Minnesota, and just like I predicted,
none of these fucking stores got the new Voivod in except for Best Buy -
who had ONE copy, which was apparently stolen before I could buy it.

I am gonna plaster some Voivod posters on the windows of these back-ass stores,
so there will at least have been some eye contact with the name and logo.

I certainly will NOT be out 'campaigning', like some bizarre
80's thrash metal heretic freak fucking politician.

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Originally posted by Blackcloud of Deicide:
I hate street teams, voivod..and vegetables.

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Word of mouth IS the best way to go when spreading the word on a band, but that goes only so far. Street teaming does bring more curiosity about a band to check them out as well as add more new fans to the fold.

I never actually heard of street teaming until a very dear friend of mine, JasonsAngel (from the Chophouse and Co-Founder of the Jasonites)put the bug in my ear last year about it and 2 bands she was doing her own street teaming for.

There are tons of music lovers out there, of all genre's that want to hear more. There are alot out there that check out every new band they could possibly find. After that person discovers the new band/music, whether a friend or stranger, they become drawn to the music of that new band they heard about and checked out and put the bug in their friend's ears and it goes on from there. For every band, there is a favorite song,for every favorite song, there are great memories and friendships started from it and the cycle continues.