Today's "Frontiers in Marketing" item:

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Bonus points for the url: https://walkthelinecard.com/

Seriously singing the Folsom Debtors Prison Blues here. Also, of course it's a prepaid card.

Comments

[do-not-lick.livejournal.com]

I thought that his estate was being really good about not whoring out his songs / image for shitty marketing.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Who owns the trademark "Johnny Cash™"? Is it his family, or some loathsome licensing troll/brand-necrophilia holding company?

[changeng.livejournal.com]

i hope they buried him with a lazy susan for all the grave-spinning he must be doing right now.

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

I'm not necessarily opposed to posthumous marketing tie-ins (when she dies, Joni Mitchell's memory would be well-served by a line of commemorative crotch bats) but this is pretty awful.

Not the first time

[gcrumb.livejournal.com]

Back in the '80s, Johnny Cash allowed Canada Trust to use his name to brand their new ATMs and debit cards. The start of every ATM session began with, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."

o/~ da dumdum DWANG DWANG dung dabum dum o/~

I think

[leolo.livejournal.com]

I do believe I'm going to throw up.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

You keep using that word--"honor"--I don't think it means what you think it means...