Tim Quirk Was The Frontman Of Early Nineties American Alternative Rockers Too Much Joy This Week He Posted His Latest Warner Music Royalty Statement On The Internet And Then Explained In A Blog Entry Why What Was Written On It Was So
This Year After Selling Out Shows And Boosting His Taylor Gang Following With The Standout Mixtape Kush OJ The Hottest Breakthough MC Of 2010 Has Kept The Hiphop Scene Buzzing About Whether Hes Ready To Call Another Major Label
What It Really Means Now Heres Where It Gets Tricky The Report Includes Onthenight Spend Such As Food Drinks Parking Merchandise Etc Money That Doesnt Necessarily Go Back To The Artist Label Or People Closely Associated With The Act Really How Much Money Or Work Have Viagogo Et Al Invested Artists Believe Me Ive Got Many Issues With Some Of The Record Labels Many Of Which Ive Voiced In Previous Blogs But They Do Invest Money In Artists
The Banker Glanced Out The Window Like He Hadnt Noticed The Soundtrack Segued Into Some Kind Of A Cool Jazz Number And A Scene Of A Multicultural Crew Of Ladies And Gentlemen Not Looking Much Like Degraded Credit Abusers At All
Ultimately Todays Music Purchasers Arent So Much Buying Those Files As They Are Playing The Role Of Benefactors To Musicians As Such This Money Should Go To The Artist Not The Companies Or Technologycreators In Between All The Costs That Major Labels Used To Spend Physical Distribution Havent Disappeared Theyve Just Moved Into Other Areas Before A 10 Track Album CD Had A Set Royalty And Publishing Breakdown So That For Every Album Sold A Fixed Goes
My 6247 Royalty Statement How Major Labels Cook The Books With Digital Downloads I Got Something In The Mail Last Week Id Been Wanting For Years A Too Much Joy Royalty Statement From Warner Brothers That Finally Included Our
Im Not Interested In Writing An Apologia For Music Downloadingno Band Owes Me Cheap Musicbut It Strikes Me That Part Of The Issue Is That People Can Now 1 Be More Informed About Where They Spend Their Money And 2 Make A Certain Demand For Their Work In Marketing Third Major Labels Will Always Have Some Shitty Artists So Will Many Indies Finally Some Artists Will Always Do What They Do For Free Others Not So Much These 4 Premises Have Been Established
Out Of TimeREM 1991 The Major Label Success Of REM Had Convinced Some Listeners The Group Had Become Commercial Mainstream Safe And No Longer Growing Artistically Sure The 1988 Album Green Was Not A Step Forward But The Group
Which Ha Ha Seldom Happened On A MAJOR Label Then You Would Think The Artist Could Pay That Back Out Of Selling The Cd At 15or By Selling Roughly 6666 Albums Then Anything Over That Would Be 5050 Right
Prologue PoeTry All Poems Recited By Fictional Character And Poems Used As Interlude Has Been Written By Joy X Messerschmidt Im Sorry If I Did Not Cite Myself I Will Be Sure To Do So Next Time A Horse With No Name
