Desdinova
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD
| reply to Lumberjack
Re: Voluntary would make more sense.
Well, I do work in the music industry, as an engineer and producer and I've worked with a number of major artists and the recording industry is far from the innocents that you suggest they are. For starters, some actions against non-industry personnel include price-fixing and damaging the lives of numerous people through their frivolous and poorly investigated lawsuits (dead grandmothers, anyone?).
As far as members of their own industry are concerned, I know several artists and music groups whose careers were completely destroyed in a number of various ways. One group was signed solely because the A&R rep at a major label was afraid that they would be picked up a different label and promoted in competition to a major act already signed by same agent. Once the "rivals" were under a deal memo, they were effectively bound and gagged until the label released any of their material which--surprise!!--they never did. The band eventually broke up amidst a flurry of lawsuits.
Ask any number of independent artists how much fun it is to try and get their music programmed on a station that is owned by a conglomerate like Clearwater...
But to quote Marty DiBergi, enough of my yakkin'. Steve Albini explains far better than I will here...
»www.negativland.com/albini.html |
