Corporate Country Sucks - Corporate Watch: Recent Comments

Comment on Highway to Wal-Mart

2009-02-24T01:04:58Z

This is such a ripoff.They are no more AC/DC than I am

Comment on Highway to Wal-Mart

2008-12-27T00:20:52Z

I used to rock to AC/DC quite frequently back in the day. Even rode the same plane from Phoenix to LA with them, sat behind Brian Johnson. The lady next to him had no idea. People were bringing their puke bags over for autographs. I may only own one cd, Back in Black, but what can I say? If you consider that Wal-Mart is corporate evil, then this band fits like a glove if AC/DC's personification is still satanism.

Comment on Highway to Wal-Mart

2008-11-20T03:40:37Z

I was never a big ACDC fan.. but it is thoroughly dissappointing... How does one metamorphasize from a band whose gimic was to protest conventional norms by 'proudly proclaiming to be satanists' ... to a band that releases its album with THE most conformist corporation in America? It's disconcerting to say the least. But I suppose the operative word here is "gimic".

Comment on Freaky Rockenomics

2008-05-29T07:38:37Z

Time and time again, only the musicians that are truly good will prefer to play live and maintain control of their recorded music. It is more cost effective to back the live gig and give them a copy of their performance and/or experience during or after the show. Every musician who truly wants to play knows that is the more respected route. The mainstrain recording labels need to not re-invent the wheel, but they need to look back about 30 years and see that the model of promoting the band instead of the band promoting them is the root of modern music; Even Elvis toured non-stop before becoming famous. The biggest hting for the big shots in recording is to do whatever they can to restore their image as the supporting operators, and not the big daddy superstore image they have created for themselves. And... they need to fire any employee who cannot play an instrument. And they need to ditch support of MTV. They don't play music videos anymore anyway. If they are to make money, they need to realize that all the media outlets follow suit to their decisions and it does not need to be that way. Pushing back media independance to the radio stations is the only true way to go. They (the big recording studios) have concentrated the last 20 years on media domination: now they have nothing to compete with. To control all aspects of the business is no longer the model they need to be in.

Comment on Internet Radio, On It's Way Out?

2008-05-22T04:08:47Z

I listen to boot liquor radio (now on soma) pretty regularly and have found many artists that way. Occasionally I hit up Pandora but I do not use it for genres of music I like that I am not familiar with.

Comment on Internet Radio, On It's Way Out?

2008-05-16T01:34:42Z

I agree, I love the Internet radio sites, particularly Pandora. It's a great place to hear new and different music that you wont hear on "old school" radio. It all depends on your musical taste and your attitude. If you prefer the comfort of hearing songs that you've heard many times and still enjoy, then the radio is for you, but if you want to expand your horizons and listen to something that will be a little harder to like at first but may have some staying power, then Pandora is just the thing.

Comment on A Glimpse of the Future

2008-01-21T00:15:21Z

Every 10 years (give or take) there is a major revolution of some kind in the music industry.

1960 - White suburban kids start listening to "black" music called Rock N Roll, making it legit.

1970 - Album oriented rock radio stations make the album more important than the single (thank you, Beatles).

1980 - MTV comes along and changes how the whole industry is marketed.

1990 - Alternative and College rock comes out of the shadows

2000 - Two things. Napster and digital downloading changes the way music is delivered, bringing back the "single".

and New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer cracks down on the record industry and radio industry, pretty much ending the pay-for-play practice.

And what of 2010?

The next revolution is the death of the major record label. Radiohead has shown that major artists have no need for them, and young and upcoming artists can do pretty well if they know how to draw attention to their websites/my space.com. The next business model will be bands signing with management companies and not record labels. A lot of these management companies will have promotions and A&R people that have worked in labels, but the bands will control their content and level of promotion and distribution. I think Guster is the first band that will be embracing this on a big level.

Comment on It's a "Rip" Off

2008-01-21T00:08:12Z

The R.I.A.A are puttin electronic monitors on every street sign in America. These monitors can pick up the sound of any kind of music within 3 miles. That is ANY kind of music. They will soon be able to detect when you are humming a song, and you will have to pay a royalty for humming it.