Historically, musicians have had one of two unattractive choices:
- Align themselves with major label exploiters and agree to unfair compensation in the hopes of one day reaching a national audience; or
- Resign themselves to working with indies and a life in the shadows.
I think the world is starting to realize the need for a change. I think the Future of Music Coalition will play a big part in this change in the near future.
It’s possible. Or, it’s possible that people want trashy, formulaic, meaningless, corporate teenybopper crap. I don’t know what to think.
A famous quote by Hunter Thompson sums up the music ‘business’:
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench – a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.
There’s also a negative side… ”
– Hunter S. Thompson