RE: the term AJ....
John Schauer (john_schauer@development.uchicago.edu)
Mon, 13 Nov 95 17:01:30 CST
On 3 Nov 1995 Paul_Senior-FPS007C@email.mot.com wrote:
> >Hate to break it to you, but the power of the major labels will never
> >be taken over by the indies...
They already have been taken over by Bertellesman , Sony, etc.
>>We are here to make money and we do it well.
> >You're naive if you think any company's primary purpose should be other
> >than to make money. Of course we should drop musicians after a trend is
And too Union-Carbide, RJR-Nabisco, Bill Gates, Kenny G, and General Dynamics
all "are here to make money and do it well." Well, congratulations to all of
you. But at least employees of the above don't write to music lists claiming
that their phat bottom line has any relationship to good music or musicians.
Perhaps bus.corporations.multi-national would be a better place for posts
lauding multi-national conglomerates.
> >over. We don't put out albums to have them dust on the retailer shelves.
^^^Actually, major labels do just that.^^^ They put out loadss of "product"
they know will not sell in order to fill up retail space, music review column
space, radio playlists, etc. Every third rate major label release a magazine
reviews, a store stocks, etc. is one less indy record that is reviewed,
stocked, or played. Despite free market rhetoric, quashing competition is
the goal of any oligopoly. Again, that's what your companies' stockholders
pay you to do, but it is hardly honorable in itself and is certainly
irrelevent to the music.
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