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Post by Alrik on Dec 14, 2009 22:38:30 GMT
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Dec 14, 2009 23:40:59 GMT
I love it! Very poetic.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 15, 2009 2:23:25 GMT
The sheer hypocrisy of those record labels is breath-taking! I am honestly stunned. They've been at it for twenty years, yet!
They've kept lists, so it's not even an accident or an oversight.
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Post by Alrik on Dec 15, 2009 16:54:29 GMT
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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 15, 2009 17:48:09 GMT
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks, Alrik  |
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Post by kitty on Dec 16, 2009 4:07:50 GMT
"They just can't be bothered. They don't care, because they don't have to." (of the second link)
I've heard that before. I know a band that was present when the whole Tokio Hotel mania broke out in Germany and labels spit out similar bands to milk the idea of "german speaking emo kiddie rock". The band did pretty well, sold their only ever made two albums surprisingly well, had major media coverage, filled the halls etc etc - and then vanished from the public eye over night.
The ex-singer fo the band and his sound guy told me a little what happened - of the thousands of euro they earned the guys themself got effectivly nothing. So less that, when recording they debut album, they had to sleep in the studio's basement, because non of them could afford to rent a room. After their first major tour (impress ticket sales), they lived of cornflakes for many month.
When they vanished suddenly, they actually got themselves a lawyer, they went to the management and got dropped (of course).
Even the teeny magazines wrote surised artcile about the sudden end of the (unusually successful) band.
Because of this people keep telling me to never join a major label (I'm not meeting the current trends anyway, but that's another topic), and yea, it's depressing.
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Dec 24, 2009 19:26:58 GMT
That kinda blows, man.  |
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Post by Alrik on May 5, 2010 15:14:57 GMT
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