…It used to be that indie releases were sacrosanct. The pirates fancied themselves Robin Hood, stealing from the big record companies, who, with their obscene excesses and employment of people not fit to work in other industries (present company included), were about as sympathetic as BP and Wall Street combined. But now, all pretence to stealing only from the rich has gone right out the window….
…by my decidedly unscientific and incomplete count this record has already been downloaded twice as many times as the number of the last record’s total sales in the United States. So much for the argument that people who download buy more…
”Joyce Lineham of Ashmont Records, on piracy. The album she is referring to is the Pernice Brothers ’Goodbye, Killer’, which was unreleased at the time she sent this email.
Which all does make me wonder - how did everything get so fucked up, and how can we save the music?
It feels like the kids are being raised in a world were music has no value… what are we meant to do? Do we all become Jonathan Coulton? Can the system support a thousand JoCo’s?
I don’t want to lose the ones like Pernice…. someone save us….
