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Musicians Get Together For Anti-RIAA Concerts
DarkZero writes "The Sacramento Bee is currently running an article
about several different bands getting together for five concerts to raise money for the Recording Artists Coalition with the express purpose of fighting the RIAA and the
unfair treatment of its musicians. The acts lined up include Elton John, Billy Joel, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nick
s, The Offspring, The Eagles, Weezer, and plenty of other bands. Good for them. (And for those that are wonderi
ng, the RAC's site, ArtistsAgainstPiracy.com, is actually an anti-RIAA and somewhat pro-Napster site, not what you would immediately expect it
to be.)"
It really pisses me off when I hear artists like Courtney Love bitch about getting ripped off.
She knew exactly how things worked. She made the choice to go major when being famous was more important to her than dignity and self-respect. Now that the opposite is true, she wants to put out a fire that she helped start, but it's blazing out of control, and I am nestled comfortably in my flame-retardant suit, laughing my ass off.
One year, Courtney and Kurt spent one million dollars. That's $1,000,000.00.
In one year.
Still feel sorry for her? I don't know about you, but I want to strangle her when I read this. It's like Bill Gates bitching about a $1.50 ATM fee. Sure he's getting ripped off (to an extent), but once you break the $1 million mark, doesn't it just not matter anymore?
Get with it people. Courtney Love spent years developing a high profile lifestyle. Now that her music is unpopular, she can't afford to maintain the lifestyle, and is now trying to battle the record labels, claiming victim.
Two words:
Oh please.
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Straight Outta' Comdex
I think what Ms. Love is trying to say is that she can't get the record company to give her any more money for the shit songs she sort of writes. My advice to her is this: Go Fuck Yourself! You knew damn well what you were signing. It's been proved years and years ago that you really don't make shit off record sales. You make money off touring. As much as I don't want to say it, look at Metallica they are (used to) tour every year. they sell a shit load of t-shirts. Aerosmith, they are on the road every few years. Lenard Skynard, ACDC, yeah I know these are shit bands but almost a sure thing that you can see them every year in your town. And Ticketmaster still sucks but that is where any band makes money. And radio play, her album came out a year or two ago and frankly, it just wasn't any good or radio playable. and the tour behind it didn't do any good either. Right, she is on our side of the pool but it really isn't for the right reasons. She really isn't any type of spokeswoman that I'd vote for on this topic. I guess it makes me mad when I hear how bad courtney love's life is, someone please fucking call Fugazi and let them know that Hole's record deal isn't working out and they need some advice. And another thing, if anyone doesn't remeber who Parasite Alan Douglas is, the assface who wouldn't release any of Hendrix's material after he passed. Well, Ms. Love and Wendy O'Conner take two. When they stop doing thing for the fans that put them there the need to just go away. And some more, Hole was on SNL on Comedy Central today at 12:00 from back around her first album and damn she is fucking disgusting!
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