Originally posted by mcknasty

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Originally posted by Snow Tomato

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It's music.. nobody can own a melody. So the fact that people are making money off of it, seems absolutely irrelevant to me. I can give a shit less if I band can afford to buy a solid chrome jetplane to fly to the moon.. or if they're struggling to even have money to eat. It doesn't matter. The music matters, that is it.

End of story.

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uhhhh, what?


as far as selling out goes, for many people/bands/whatever, the prospect of getting a big paycheck in return for catering to a certain audience is tempting, and it definitely has a tradition of corrupting the music.

promotion and distribution depend a lot on the label wants to do with a band, and that depends on what the band produces for its label, the pushiness of the label, etc, etc. imagine if you were a big record company. you're going to push what you think will sell, and you're going to try to push bands to produce what will sell, and offer them greater promotion to persuade them. it's all kind of complicated.


but anyway, deerhoof totally ruled when they were a art-rock noise band. i saw them the other week and they were kind of a let down. you'd think they'd spaz out on stage, but the closest they came to that was for their 4-foot-tall asian singer to bounce up an down (which was the only time you could even see her).

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Originally posted by Nebetsu

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What's Fall Out Boy?

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Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination

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Originally posted by Nebetsu

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What's Fall Out Boy?

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Google.

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Originally posted by drjayphd +

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Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination

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Originally posted by Nebetsu

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What's Fall Out Boy?

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Google.

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If Fall Out Boy embodies Google, you have my permission to kill me in the manner of Rasputin. Everything at once, please.

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Originally posted by Danielle

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A LOADED GOD COMPLEX, COCK IT AND PULL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

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