I agree with ES that the only deals the majors offer are 360s at this point. Without blowing my cover (which isn't much of one anyway), I work in the business, on the music-tech-policy side, and it really just pisses me off that artists -- as usual -- bear the brunt of the inflexible, backwards, greedy, protectionist actions of the major labels and their legal/lobby front here in DC. (Can you tell which side I'm on?)Six7Six7 wrote:MYXYLPLYX wrote:Record labels are dinosaurs in the tar pit...thrashing about and trying to grab on to anything they can.Essence_Smith wrote: 360 deals are pretty much the standard these days...3 yrs ago I was in a band that had a bunch of majors at every show and that's all they were offering...hence why I'm back in corporate america...the only way to make money is to at least go platinum...otherwise you're playing LG shows...
Let them die.
buuuut.... then how will the poor 60 year old balding millionaire executives afford their cocaine habits?
Kids today... they all just have their greedy little hands out, demanding "fair compensation" for their work and "ownership of the works they create from scratch".
Disgusting really.
That isn't capitalism.
Anyway, Jane's are more than content to cash out, now honey -- they've already sullied their legacy so much that a few more dings will hardly matter. I just hate that they pretend it has anything to do with art or the creative spark. Dave's the worst, because a) he's my main influence (after Jimmy Page); discovered the XXX album as a 16 year-old guitarist, and b) he seems so reasonable that I WANT to believe him. Really, it's a two-pronged con from him and Perry. Stephen, well, he's a great drummer.