Indentured servitude: The truth about recording contracts

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Michael Bertin in the Austin Chronicle - worth reading if you're looking at signing any kind of record contract:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue41/music.labels.html

...and just in case you haven't seen this famous article before, here's Steve Albini's piece, 'The Problem With Music', which covers much the same ground, but more venomously:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 12 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

you've been a signed artist too colin, tell us about that

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 12 December 2003 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Hehe, I never signed anything with a record company in my life, Jim. I am still unsigned to my current company.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 12 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

really? wow

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 12 December 2003 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh hang on, I actually have signed things with record companies - but only on a one-off release basis, no exclusivities (and no advances of course).

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 12 December 2003 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it sweet? Englightening?

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought everyone knew record contracts were evil after the LaFace/Toni Braxton/TLC fiasco.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU ARE THE MUSIC MOLE ARENT YOU COLIN!

;)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

colin was that particular label like that for all their artists?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 12 December 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

TRAYCE OTM O MY GOD! LOL 1!1!

― TROUGHMAN (gaz), Friday, 12 December 2003 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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