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Here's someone else who is also sick of the RIAA and decided to go rogue. Mike Patton with Ipecac Recordings.

Total freedom to release anything you want, no multi album contracts so you're not locked in, and royalty checks that favor the artist.

Ipecac is distinguished from most labels (independent labels included) by their policy of signing bands to only one album contracts. "Lawyers or businesspeople call us morons for only doing one-record deals," Werckman scoffs. "They say, 'You're not really anything, then.' Well, we like our catalogue. We like the records we put out. Our bands aren't rushing away. Our job isn't to own any artist. We're here to put out the art that people create."[2]

Ipecac also presses no more than twenty thousand units at a time.[2]

Low overhead and no video or promotional cost partnered with very little distribution costs allow for hearty royalties "Every six months I send those guys the fattest royalty checks," Werckman says. "It's great. It's the way it should be. Even bands that are very successful â" when they get royalty checks from us, they're stunned."

Source.

I'm pleased other people are getting fed up with the RIAA. And I'm *very* pleased they're starting to demonstrate that they are unnecessary.

It won't be long now, I'm thinking.

Mr. Bungle (Web site sadly lacking, maybe the Ipecac Records web site has more more info?), are an alternative band who's first album contained old school (now I say that, the album came out in '89... it wasn't old school back then!) video game samples (mostly from the NES iirc) sprinkled throughout their first album. Note, they aren't a "game band", they are a (very well respected, cult status) alternative band.

There seems to be some samples on bunglefever.com. Have at it!

Fantomas - Delerium Cordia. 1 Track. 55:19 long. Original, amazing audio.
(Mike Patton is the voice and brains of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Peeping Tom and Tomahawk, Dave Lombardo is from Slayer)

http://www.ipecac.com/

skip the flash intro, the guy pukes.

filed a patten?

Like Mike Patton? Mike Patton needs an RSS feed.

see there is a small problem with this. people won't boycott anything, they might say they will but in reality they'll follow along with the norm to fit in with society.

i personally try not to buy stuff from major labels and go see movies for several reasons:

1. i don't like most of the music made by the mainstream/riaa member labels, there are a few exceptions to that rule.

2. the bands and music i do like aren't on riaa member labels.

3. indie movies for the most part are well crap, once again a few exceptions to the rule but those are usually picked up by large studios.

4. all the mainstream music sounds the same, well with in the genre it is particular to. all rap sounds the same, all alternative/punk/grunge/college sounds the same, all metal sounds the same and well rap is just rehashing lots of old stuff and has repeated itself for years.

for the most part i listen to stuff from:
metropolis records

projekt records

ipecac records

soliel moon records

invisible records

not for the sole purpose that they are not members of the riaa, tho that helps, but because i like the music and also for the most part they all give away free mp3s for you to listen to.

the majority of the people on slashdot tho won't take the bold step to listen to something that deviates from the norm. tho they are big proponents of saying "down with the riaa/mpaa"

the movie thing i'm guilty of cause well i like eye candy and good stories, however i rarely go to the movie theatre, the last few movies i went to are lotr:fotr, spider-man and attack of the clones. before that i think it was maybe episode 1 or a movie i took a date to, but the point is it was a while since i went to the movies.

everyone here can talk the talk but frankly most aren't willing to walk the walk.

i kinda do both but it's not because it's to be cool, it's cause i like that thing better than what is considered "popular" or the "in thing".

however if the music i liked was part of the riaa i'd probly still listen to it no matter what cause i genuinely like the music and unfortunately that's the boat most people are stuck in. that and a lot of them are unwilling to take a step and be a bit different than the rest of us. that and we have all this pop-culture crap shoved down our throats constantly it's hard to ignore, tho i can do it because of choices i've made and my personal preferences, when there's "no market" aka no payola from the label to play the music then it's not on the radio so when i do listen to the "radio" it's via netcast most of the time.

all people really need to do is get some balls and take a step and be different but they won't and will say stuff on here and yet go out and by the latest snoop dogg or britney spears cds and watch survivor and take what ever the riaa/mpaa dish out.

well personally i've burned a couple hundred cdr's this year, mostly iso images and other files here and there.

i won't say i haven't burnt music onto cdr cause i'd be lying however i have only burnt music that i either owned and here's a list of what i DID burn that was music:

ltd cds i didn't want to ruin or lose the original cd cause it's worth money

music i downloaded that was allowed to be downloaded by the artists themselve, such as live performance of the legendary pink dots, edward ka-spel, dj lithium's sets, another dj friend's sets and other music the artists released to the general public

mixed cds i've made as a gift or just for my listening pleasure cause i wanted a few songs on one cd

i'd say all those are fair use of my own personal property as i've not sold ANY to anyone nor made any money off of them. however i am in canada and we are allowed to burn a cd we burn off of a friend cause we pay a levy on all recordable media that goes back to both the music industry and i think the software industry (don't quote me on the second part but i know about the music industry)

however on the flipside i can count on one hand how many cds i've boughten from the big record labels this year and need my second hand and maybe a foot to count the amount of cds i've gotten from the big labels in the past 2 years. i tend to only buy music from the "independant" record labels, such as:

ipecac records

metropolis records

projekt records

soleilmoon records

invisible records

beta-lactum ring records

most have either partial or full mp3's or other audio formats you can listen to their artists from, in projekt's case each artist has their own mp3.com site and you can download several full songs from each artist and distribute them, the owner loves mp3s and knows that they help the music industry and doesn't hurt it.

Admittedly, these record labels run along the more extreme vein. However, if you are into heavy/angry music, the bands you can find through these labels produce albums FAR better than the dreck you'll find getting shoved at us through the major labels.

As poot_rootbeer said, perhaps you should try some alternate sources of music for better quality artists! :)

Bryan

You forgot to mention Ipecac Records, owned jointly by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton, two veterans of the trade.