What music have you bought lately?

[Spitfire]

hey spit, you ever wonder why indy bands are indy? ya think it's because of their scary talent?

GRRR!!!!
OK, let me try to state this clearly...bear with me...

A band usually gets signed to a major label because either they knew someone who helped them get a demo listened to...or they worked their ass off to get there. In the latter situation, they start playing shows in their hometown to get their shit together, record a demo, try to shop it at a label, but then 99% of the time have to go out on the road on their own $$$ to spread their name. Because, you see, if you're not on a label you don't have a record company paying program directors at radio stations or MTV to play your songs...therefore, people won't hear it...and people never like what they don't hear or have never heard ...so it's up to a band to go out there and try to get as many people to go to their shows...so, yes if the band is serious and not too busy working their day jobs at the same time, people will hear their stuff and they'll become famous and sell-out :lol:

Another obstacle to becoming famous: the record companies don't put any stock into rock acts anymore. A rock band is a dime a dozen, just check out the Aquarian and the Voice and see how many there are just in this area. The labels are in search of a trend (ie mall metal/grunge) and sign all the bands they can find. They cannibalize the trend to suck every dollar they can make from it, signing really shitty clone bands in the process. But if the music doesn't fit into a neatly packaged category it's useless to their marketing team. Most albums that come out today are made so a teenage audience will consume them...and it's gotta be catchy. verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-repeat chorus.

And nope my reasons for listening do not fit into your tidy argument. I listen to bands on labels where I pretty much know what I'm gonna get, such as Music Cartel, Meteorcity Records, Relapse, Tee Pee...because the musicianship is high and its got fuzz, man I love fuzz, a groove, and I love the mix of punk, southern rock, and doomy heaviness and each band is pretty different (Btw, Kyuss was on Elektra...QOTSA is on Intersope :p ) Why can't I just like a genre of music that I can't really find in the mainstream? Is that considered a bad thing? And I do pass my music around, a few people here who have open minds and ears have become my victims...

And if you look around the threads, my music taste is extraordinarily ecclectic... I really don't care if it's an indy or commerical if it's pleasing to my ears. You just have to sift through the clutter of crappy music that so predominant out there...