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Another example of sticking it to the Majors

32 by enframed_Archive
hench wrote:
enframed wrote:l how many 16 year-olds can fork out $300 for a record?


apparently 2500 can

but seriously. how many BUYERS sold them out? in other words, how many people bought simply to sell on ebay?

we'll find out in april.
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To me Steve wrote:I'm curious why[...] you wouldn't just fuck off instead. Let's hear your record, cocksocket.

Another example of sticking it to the Majors

34 by DazeyDiver_Archive
ok this is just weird:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/04/music.making.jills.cd.ap/index.html

CNN wrote:Musician turns to fans for help with new disc
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Jill Sobule asks fans to contribute towards making new album
For $10, you get a CD; for $10,000, you can sing on the record
Sobule best known for mid-'90s hit "I Kissed a Girl"
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NEW YORK (AP) -- In making six CDs, singer Jill Sobule has worked for two major record companies that dumped her and two indie labels that went bankrupt beneath her.


For $5,000, Jill Sobule will not only give you a CD -- she'll play your home.

Now she's turning to people she can really trust -- her fans.

Sobule, whose witty and poignant writing first attracted attention with the song "I Kissed a Girl," has set up a Web site asking fans to donate money so she can make a new CD. She set a goal of $75,000 and, in a month, she's made about $58,000 as of midday Tuesday.

She's another example of a musician taking control of her career as the business crumbles around her, and doing it with a unique sense of humor.

Contributors can choose a level of pledges ranging from the $10 "unpolished rock," which earns them a free digital download of her disc when it's made, to the $10,000 "weapons-grade plutonium level," where she promises "you get to come and sing on my CD. Don't worry if you can't sing -- we can fix that on our end."

For the $500 "gold level," Sobule will mention your name in a song, maybe even rhyme with it. The $750 "gold doubloons level" is "exactly like the gold level, but you give me more money."

Sobule is surprised at how empowering the whole experience has been.

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"The old kind of paradigm, where you've always waited for other people to do things, you'd have your manager and your agent," she said. "You'd wait for the big record company to give you money to do things and they tell you what to do. This is so great. I want to do everything like this."

She set the $75,000 goal because she wanted to do things right. Well-known producer Don Was has agreed to work with her, and she expects friends like Cyndi Lauper and John Doe to sing with her. She also needs to pay for making and distributing the CDs, and promotion to publicize it.

Sobule even wrote to explain all this to some snarky Web sites that pointed out that someone can easily record music for $500 in their basement these days.

"I wrote, 'Don't you understand, it's not just the recording budget, it's also my gambling debts,' " she joked, "and they became my best friends."

For a $5,000 contribution, Sobule said she'll perform a concert in the donor's house. The lower levels are more popular, where donors can earn things like an advanced copy of the CD, a mention in the liner notes and a T-shirt identifying them as a "junior executive producer" of the CD.

Besides the studio album (recording starts next month), Sobule also wants to record a live CD and a collection of new tracks with just her voice and guitar, asking amateurs to take a stab at making their own arrangements around her.

One positive, unexpected result from her campaign is getting to know her fans a little, beyond just the faces that stare at her onstage. Many have written messages that are posted on Sobule's Web site and offer suggestions.

Sobule always let the business people do their thing while she concentrated on being the artist.

"I lived like that forever and this time, this is fun," she said. "This is creative."


What say you?
kerble wrote:you talked smack, now you gotta pony up some tone, hoss.


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Another example of sticking it to the Majors

35 by AAAAAAAARGH_Archive
DazeyDiver wrote:my fav nin track is probably the instrumental "adrift and at peace" on still. so gorgeous.

this new instrumental album is just so-so so far. reznor really hit an instrumental peak around the fragile/still.


"Leaving Hope" was my favorite

Here are the only NIN tracks I think hold water and don't make me embarrassed to listen to: La Mer, Down In It, Adrift & At Peace, Piggy, The Frail, The Line Begins to Blur

I will go on record as saying The Line Begins to Blur is an actually good song. Like, a really good song. I haven't heard anything past With Teeth though.
We are The Fall in the Neighbourhood of Infinity

Another example of sticking it to the Majors

36 by DazeyDiver_Archive
AAAAAAAARGH wrote:Here are the only NIN tracks I think hold water and don't make me embarrassed to listen to: La Mer, Down In It, Adrift & At Peace, Piggy, The Frail, The Line Begins to Blur


i might put big man with a gun and into the void on that list. that happiness in slavery performance from woodstock is pretty good as well.


I will go on record as saying The Line Begins to Blur is an actually good song. Like, a really good song.


seconded!

I haven't heard anything past With Teeth though.


don't bother. year zero was oh so meh.
kerble wrote:you talked smack, now you gotta pony up some tone, hoss.


myspace.com/majorbarger

Another example of sticking it to the Majors

38 by Barbo_Archive
Einstuerzende Neubauten solicited contributions for their last record. I think the upper level of support (>$500) and the possibility of involvement with the Jill Sobule record is ridiculous but I guess she really needs the money or something.

On a completely unrelated note if anyone wants to contribute to the die Hoffnung "Another Attempt at Mediocrity" recording fund here are the levels of support:

$10 - We will send you an email directly from one of our own personal email accounts saying "Thanks" or an equivalent statement of appreciation
$20 - You will get a professionally pressed digital compact disc made at a plant that makes compact discs, possibly in America
$100 - The CD comes with drugs. (Please specify what type of drugs you like and where we can get them because we are not really the drug type)
$500 - My brother will promise to write a song about you, although you might be a veiled metaphor for some emotion or something ($400 if your name happens to be the same as a character from Greek or Roman mythology, an Auden poem, a work by Melville, or turn of the century American folklore)
$1000 - We will fly you to any of the four shows we might play a year. There is no promise of satisfaction or even mild amusement but you can have some of the free PBR we will not want to drink from the bar.
$3000 - You will receive a limited edition Marburger "Shitty Attempt at Making a Guitar" balsa wood guitar shaped "player's" instrument, complete with custom unresponsive hand wound authentic local law firm refrigerator magnet pickups and four installed Swithcraft jacks.
$4000 - You will receive the custom 1990 Miami Blue Ford Festiva, otherwise known as "The Skittle" or "The Rollerskate," responsible for carting my drums to every show I have ever played in town since 1995. This baby has some pickup, especially when pointed downhill.
$5000 - Fuck it, you're in the band. Welcome to Gainesville. Here's your flip-flops and trucker's cap; let yourself go.

We really appreciate any support you can give. Our plan is to record sometime before arthritis sets in. Thank you.


Sincerely,

Jon Marburger
Drummer
die Hoffnung
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