The Null Device
Good article on
the
evils of the major record labels:
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label ...
I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe
sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people...
at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at
the other end holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.
Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides,
the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to
everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract...
The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music
industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000
on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as
they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month.
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