On 18 Mar 2009, at 20:20, Tristan Watkins wrote:
On 18/03/2009 03:30, JT Stewart wrote:
Louis said everything I was going to say (and better) in my
response to Tristan.
Yeah, I do understand those reasons as an artist, but the more we're
talking about this the more I'm wondering if these aren't purely the
concerns of the artist rather than the label - meaning: artist-run
labels are the ones that would be less likely to distribute
digitally. Put another way, I reckon this discussion is really about
the relationship between the label and the consumer rather than the
artist and the listener, if you see what I mean? In cases where the
artist is the label, this gets much murkier. Perhaps a bit
simplistically, or maybe just wrongly, I've always thought that it
was the label's job to provide me with the output of the artists
that they represent - thus my confusion about some of them not
wanting to sell stuff to me.
I complete disagree with this "I've always thought that it was the
label's job to provide me with the output of the artists", this is
just consumer/brand infection, I'm a weapon of mass consumption and I
have the right BS, some things are just not "products".
That's my view anyways.
m
