to be fair. Just briefly, while we’re here:
Bones to pick include: Someone reliably informed me that the music lawyers earn 75 percent of the money made in the music business and tend to wield an enormous amount of power. This is not right.
And: The definition of insanity has been said by someone (may have been Einstein, maybe not) to be doing exactly the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
This could be taken broadly to define how the music business continues to behave, and I’ll be honest a lot of musicians too, and it pisses me off. Royally.
There are other bones, and I will be picking at them too, like a vulture looking for a quick snack, but perhaps this is not the time or the place. I started out wanting to be nice after all.
Also: Major labels must die. There are lots of nice people that work in them. They don’t have to die, in fact I wish them pleasant lives with chocolate cake and swizzle sticks. But major labels: There are about a million ways in which they suck, and have fucked music up, and continue to do their best to do so, and at some point I’ll list them here. Well maybe not all million, but I’ll do my best.
Rant over. Thanks, I needed that.
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