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Country music icon, Garth Brooks, is about to open a new bar in Nashville. Called The Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk, Brooks recently sat down with Billboard for a conversation... and that's where the trouble started.
Apparently he plans to sell "every brand of beer" which has upset those who want the boycott of Bud Light to continue.
"I want it to be a place you feel safe in. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another. And, yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make," Brooks said during a panel for Billboard Country Live. "Our thing is this: If you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an a--hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway."
As you know, I never call for a ban on anything. People are more than capable of making their own decisions about what they will spend their money on and what they will not.
But I am a capitalist and I think what Brooks plans on doing is just fine to be honest. If he stocks the beer and people buy it then he made the right decision. If he stocks the beer and no one wants it, then he will remove it because he will have limited storage space and he will want to fill it with what sells. The market will literally decide. That's where I stand and I am surprised that people are so bent out of shape over this to the point they are throwing out records and books.
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