Comments on: demonbaby, a discourse on recording industry suicide

By: erik stanfill

erik stanfill — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:58:47 +0000

no more major label cds for yours truly…

By: kiala

kiala — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:33:16 +0000

I don’t understand your dark magiks, Josh. It scaaaaares me.

By: josh k

josh k — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:27:31 +0000

look what just popped into the latest mp3s. magic.

By: kiala

kiala — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:30:37 +0000

It’s like a disease…

Charlatans. Clicky.

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:30:30 +0000

There’s a similar theme on this blog too…

By: joshk

joshk — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:12:18 +0000

rob also has a healthy perspective being the art director for nin. nin recently gave the big finger to being on a label.

By: joshk

joshk — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:56:59 +0000

he makes a great point that the majors, at their height of power, were masters of selling their physical product in retail outlets. their ability to adapt to the online world is questionable at best.

this is an over-simplification but…….a band makes their album available online and it instantly has more potential than a cd distributed by a major sitting in a walmart.

the standing argument is that a major gives releases marketing power and reach. uh…album sales have never been lower so clearly the playing field is being leveled. also its becoming clear the the playing field is the online space where the indie can fight it out wih the same distribution technology. (the browser)

lastly while the playing field is level currently \”net neutrality\” is increasingly going to be a piece of legislation that the indie must fight for. if net neutrality is not enforced a major could pay more money to have their web content load faster than the indie without the same dollars for online distribution. so, keep the net fair. support net neutraility!