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Pixies on Schmecord Companies: Who Needs 'Em?
posted by scubacuda on Saturday August 14, @12:49PM
from the break-my-patent dept.
Digital Entertainment The Pixies's Charles Thompson (aka Black Francis) epitomizes what more and more people are thinking about record companies.

Says Thompson, "Record companies, schmecord companies. Who needs 'em? . . . The record business is really bad right now. That's not where the money is. The business is with the real customers, the fans. They're the ones who say, 'OK, we'll come and see you perform. That's who we're trying to connect with."

Will Clear Channel lay the smack down for selling instant albums immediately after their concert? Only time will tell.

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    by hardpack on Monday August 16, @01:38AM (#1570)
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    It helps, though, that the Pixies have a place in history that allows them to walk away from the big record companies. Their marketing has already been paid for.

    How can a musician who doesn't cater towards "indie" music, say, a pure bubblegum pop musician, or a musical entertainer (someone whose market value is decided by music combined with image, regardless of proportion), survive? The problem assumes that current musicians care only about their music. The claim is that entertainers who need media blitzing can't survive... But there hasn't been any reason why they don't have the right to.

    Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. - Isaac Asimov

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