The subway story strikes me as either a tremendous and pointless lie or useless exagerration of a story that would have been funny anyway.

But then who am I to question a man aiming his sphincter at people and threatening them Dirty Harry style?

Man it was bizzare, but that's a straight true ...

A hippie was seen crawling down some railway tracks. When asked if there was a problem, he said, "Yeah, man, can you help me off this ladder?"

This story dates from when I first moved to NYC and was working as a temp and hadn't quite gotten the hang of responsible living. So i was up really late one sunday night at some disgusting bar with like minded friends and like a dumbass I'm thinking it's no big deal becayse i have a big bag of blow ...

Well, since we were kind of on this topic, this website promises to be interesting methinks:

http://www.mybandgotscrewed.com/

So, if you're already successful in the major label paradigm, then you will be successful in the major label paradigm. This tautology is hardly a revelation.


That's a funny criticism, as you're saying if you're not successful in the major label paradigm then you're not successful in the major ...

If you don't go anywhere then the label loses a lot of money that it invested in your band, while the band typically doens't take a financial loss.

Please give specific examples of when a major record company took a massive financial loss, and NONE of that expense was recouped from the band's ...

I Admit that I didn't make the essay example exhaustive. Using your premise (50-50 split with publisher) I'll add a few other standard clauses (three-quarter statutory rate, 10 song cap) and do the math for you:

2.5 million accountable titles (250,000 copies x 10 song cap) x .066 (statutory rate ...

So I've seen this article copied and pasted all over the internet (and ripped off shamelessly by courtney love) and I've always wanted an answer to a couple questions. Seeing that Steve posts here maybe this is the place.

So here's the article, the now famous "The Problem With Music"

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