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This is simply not true. Radio stations have agreements with record labels. These labels pay the stations for a certain amount of play time. As an example: You own a radio station, You are offered an agreement with a group of labels (Elektra/Asylum included), They will supply you with Promo CD's, concert tickets, posters, x,xxx,xxx amount of dollars, etc.
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This is also just not 100% true. Though a radio station does make promotional agreements with bands, especially the largest syndicated radio labels, if this were completely the way a radio station worked, then no one would ever be able to request music.. Most radio stations I know maintain 24 hour request lines, and mix it in with their regular programming. Yes, there are promtional agreements with the labels, but if it worked this way in totality, local, regional, and crappy national acts would never get any radio time. Also, because alot of radio stations are independently owned, it is simply impossible for a band / promoter to 'do the rounds' with 18000 independent radio stations, and to pay them to secure air time for his bands. Larger companies do shell out promotional money for their acts, but if this were the way the entire industry worked, only the large labels would ever receive radio airplay.
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Unfortunatley artist value is usually second to pocket value
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Why shouldnt it be? If you're not doing it for the money, you should never bother moving from the 'amateur' musician to the 'professional' musician stage...
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Nope wrong again. Although this is a democracy there are a lot of things "the people" will not and can not control. Money talks. Even if the people hate it the radio stations are obligated by contractual agreements to follow the guidelines that the labels set for the particular piece of music.
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This is partially true... A radio station that plays something that people doesn't want to here doesnt get listeners, therefore no promoter would ever pay money for them to promote their music..
Its a pretty fine balance i'd say, folks are pretty finiky about their radio stations.. While it's true that DJ's have almost 0 control of their music, to think that programming directors choice of music is controlled 100% by 'BOUGHT' air time on record labels is also a bit ludicious.. Radio is a business like anything else, but remember the major source of revenue for radio... ADVERTISEMENT... Thats the silver bullet that gives them a degree of freedom with what they play.
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The essence of DOS is in Windows. DOS is Disk Operating System.
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I would then say that the 'essence' of Metallica is still there in their music.. Loud, distorted guitars, James Hetfields crooning voice, Kirks bluesy pentonic rifts... Did you ever think that when they first came out that maybe they were trying to 'play to the masses' rather than their true artistic vision, rather than making the music they feel they wanted to make? At what point is a band a sellout, and at what point are they a purist? Maybe they are just now playing the music they've spent their entire lives trying to write, maybe the issue lies in the ear of the expectant listener.
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He has in NO way strayed from the essence of DOS.
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You've obviously never dealt with Unix guru's and commandline nazis..
Actually, linux isnt an Operating system, it's a kernel of an operating system.. Combine it with all the tools and what not, and it's an operting system. (Linux purist hackers are very nitpicky about that note) Im being very nitpicky even bringing it up! LOL
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They way he brought the Graphical User Interface (GUI) together was briliant
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Actually, most of that was Xerox, then Mac, then Windows... Bill and Co. just borrowed what they found... In fact in the early days, most people screamed 'Windows GUI sucks, Macs are much better'
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Now with the click of a button you are giving the PC command line instructions. He has in NO way strayed from the essence of DOS.
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To say that a click of the button provides the utility of a specificed command line invocation is also a bit simplistic. GUI tools allow you to do simple invocations, but to do anything right, you still need commandline. Thats why few people in the linux/unix world rely on a GUI. They only use it so they can run 'xmms' and 'xclock'
Alot of those same people are screaming that Windows is the 'bubblegumming' of DOS for the masses. I remember listening to every 'I'm computer illiterate person' complaining about DOS being to hard and too cryptic to learn. I will bet you 5$ I can find threads where commandline purists are screaming that Windows is 'selling out' because of the GUI.. LOL... (probably going to be 5 years old, but what the hey!)
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Do not change your values for the sake of money
Relating the music you make, and your values is a wholefully different thing. Maintain your integrity. Be yourself. If people don't like you for who you are thats ok.
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You've obviously never tried to sell a song to make a car payment. If you come from an exceedingly rich family, and your success or failure makes no difference whatsoever in terms of your kids being able to attend a decent college, whether or not you are going to drive a ferrari or a taxi, or live in a mansion or a cardboard box, then maybe this is a distinction you may afford to make.
I wouldnt say this makes a person a sellout, I'd say it makes them 'smart'. Artistic vision is something everyone has, but everyone gradually loses once they realize that the musical world is not there to cater to their musicial tastes.
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I feel cheated. But thats just my opinion. I'm not asking you to agree with me. A simple "thats not how I feel" would have worked.
I hope that no hard feelings come of this.
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I understand completely, we each have and are entitled to our opinions, and I welcome them, whether I agree with them or not.
I would never get offended by someone elses arguements unless they were absuive personally, but that's me. Some people these days don't realize a good discusion can include 2 people that don't agree on something. You will notice that when the argument decays to someone bashing the others spelling...lol... (also a sign of someone that has lost and is unwilling to admit someone else is right...lol...)
Personally, I never feel cheated because I don't feel that anyone owes me anything. I would say cheated would mean that they had been some intention on their part to deliver a product that you wanted to hear. Cheated means they have deliberately misled you.
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