Horse hockey. Your comment really has nothing to do with the original topic, you just took this chance to post a leftist screed knowing how most slashdot readers would mod you up for pandering to their juvenile sense of entitlement.
I've been running small labels on and off since the mid 80s and have done work with major labels as well.What big labels get you that small labels can never match is reach. Sure big labels charge lots of money for those services but a one or three person small label just does not have the time, resources or pull to deal with promotion, fulfillment and all the other crap that goes into getting The New Footgazers some mind share to Joe & Jane Q. Public.
Also as far as "pop trash" goes, kindly stuff your elitist attitude where the sun dont shine. Simple fact is The New Footgazers or their like just wont appeal to regular folks who listen to the radio, buy CDs and go to concerts. The shocking truth is no one forces Millie Teengirl to buy Weekly Pop Diva, Millie Teengirl shells out her shekels because she genuinely likes that kind of music.
Another unpleasant truth of the biz is that about one in one thousand Footgazers can actually do the work it takes to build anything like a career as an entertainer. Playing hundreds of under attended gigs, touring, unreliable income, unstable relationships due to frequent absences all take their toll on people and are often reasons bands break up. There is also the issue that many bands are just lousy at giving interviews which does not help when it comes to building up an image or any kind of buzz. Lots of folks have no head for business or just blindly trust some venal manager to handle everything, never even bothering to read "This Business of Music" much less bothering to lawyer up before signing anything.
I'm fairly confident your claims of "big music being in its death throws" will be proved wrong. For all the pissing and moaning of/. and the precious snowflake generation of the Web, those companies know lots more about entertaining the public than you give them credit for.
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Horse hockey. Your comment really has nothing to do with the original topic, you just took this chance to post a leftist screed knowing how most slashdot readers would mod you up for pandering to their juvenile sense of entitlement.
Dear Anonymous Coward
My ancestors did not come to America and strive to educate themselves so that I would end up as a lathe operator.
what kind of communist fantasy-land do you think can maintain a modern economy without someone getting rich off of it?
Canada?
Horse hockey. No racism here.
I've been running small labels on and off since the mid 80s and have done work with major labels as well.What big labels get you that small labels can never match is reach. Sure big labels charge lots of money for those services but a one or three person small label just does not have the time, resources or pull to deal with promotion, fulfillment and all the other crap that goes into getting The New Footgazers some mind share to Joe & Jane Q. Public.
/. and the precious snowflake generation of the Web, those companies know lots more about entertaining the public than you give them credit for.
Also as far as "pop trash" goes, kindly stuff your elitist attitude where the sun dont shine. Simple fact is The New Footgazers or their like just wont appeal to regular folks who listen to the radio, buy CDs and go to concerts. The shocking truth is no one forces Millie Teengirl to buy Weekly Pop Diva, Millie Teengirl shells out her shekels because she genuinely likes that kind of music.
Another unpleasant truth of the biz is that about one in one thousand Footgazers can actually do the work it takes to build anything like a career as an entertainer. Playing hundreds of under attended gigs, touring, unreliable income, unstable relationships due to frequent absences all take their toll on people and are often reasons bands break up. There is also the issue that many bands are just lousy at giving interviews which does not help when it comes to building up an image or any kind of buzz. Lots of folks have no head for business or just blindly trust some venal manager to handle everything, never even bothering to read "This Business of Music" much less bothering to lawyer up before signing anything.
I'm fairly confident your claims of "big music being in its death throws" will be proved wrong. For all the pissing and moaning of