Comments on: Anti-RIAA clearinghouse

Anti-RIAA clearinghouse

Dr. Wu — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:21:08 -0800

An impressive array of anti-RIAA articles, mostly from people within the music industry.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:24:59 -0800

I could read that Steve Albini essay a million times.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:42:47 -0800

Luckily it's been posted that many times before. I wonder if Courtney Love's piece is in the link too?

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:45:04 -0800

Someday, you will ache like I ache.

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:09:04 -0800

The "Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales" article reminds me of a Dick Guindon cartoon from the early 80's showing a band on stage saying something along the line of "...and now we'd like to talk about declining record sales and the dangers of video games." Remember when cheap cassettes and competition from crappy video games were all the record companies had to worry about?

By: rmm

rmm — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:15:38 -0800

Yup, smackfu, sure is. And every time someone calls her a crackwhore murdering slut, I ask them if they've heard of or read that essay, or could replicate that (don't get many responses, funnily enough). Great stuff. Good ammunition on why these dinosaurs deserve the pain they're getting (the RIAA). Great find.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:31:16 -0800

And yet a few bands do end up with big bucks. So when is the big bucks point? (I have no doubt that the RIAA is a buch of ass-munchers and that your average act gets fucked sideways. I'm just curious how big you have to be to get to be Britney, Nick Mason or Paul McCartney.)

By: chrominance

chrominance — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:46:32 -0800

When I first heard about Courtney Love's stand against piracy, I tracked down one of the articles she wrote—and lo and behold, it was practically Steve Albini's article, reprocessed and regurgitated. I'm sure Love gets way more flak than she deserves for her various indiscretions, but I thought it was a bit unfortunate when she got all the credit for the balance sheet that someone else laid out first. Hell, she even makes the same crack about the band making more money if they'd worked at a 7-11.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:58:21 -0800

Dunno why they didn't just link to the Negativland version, which is somewhat easier to look at.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:09:32 -0800

OK. Courtney Love is hawt again.

By: lesseffective

lesseffective — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:56:40 -0800

So. What am I missing? Anyone got a non-broken link? I was actually really interested in that...

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:30:57 -0800

Ringo is the last one. When was Courtney Love ever hawt?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:53:03 -0800

Looks like a lot of required reading there. Thanks for the link!

By: Eothele

Eothele — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:48:20 -0800

I love the smell of burning RIAA-flesh in the morning. Thanks Dr. Wu.