[mythtv-users] It's over, the RIAA is toast

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Mar 7 00:39:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:11:47PM -0500, Josh White wrote:
> So that means Kurt Cobain's suicide inducing fortune came from tee-shirt
> sales?

No. Heavy rotation on rock radio and MTV.

What did the RIAA ever do in terms of "advertising" for a band like his? 

> 
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:43 PM, jedi wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > >> Trent  did just that with Saul Williams' latest album and it went
> > >> nowhere.
> > >>
> > >
> > >     You can say that about plenty of acts that the labels
> > > "discovered".
> > >
> > >> For every band with the savvy of Linkin Park (who got to dictate
> > >> their
> > >> recording contract due to their Internet popularity) there are
> > >> thousands of
> > >> bands that do need somebody to hold their hand and lead the way. I
> > >> think
> > >
> > >     I think it's more accurate to describe them more as lambs ripe for
> > > the slaughter. A lot of bands are exploited for their 15 minutes and
> > > then
> > > cast aside.
> >
> > I think it was Courtney Love who said:
> >
> > "Piracy is the act of taking someone's music with absolutely no
> > intention of ever paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster, I'm
> > talking about a modern day recording contract".
> >
> > Who said she didn't have a clue about what's going on around her?
> >
> > beww
> >
> >
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