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Record Labels, Which Used To Have Complete Control, Are Essentially Irrelevant. The Process Of A Band Exposing Itself To The World Is Extremely Democratic And There Are No Barriers. Music Is No Longer A Commodity, It’s An Environment, Or Atmospheric Element. Consumers Have Much More Choice And You See People Indulging In The Specificity Of Their Tastes Dramatically More. They Only Bother With Music They Like.

Whenever There's Active Promotion On The Part Of Somebody Else, Whenever I See Somebody All Dolled Up For A Fancy Photograph And Someone's Handing Out Flyers Or Whenever There's Active Promotion For Something Like That, As An Imposition On My Day, I Hate All Those People And I Want Them To Fail. I Have A Visceral Reaction To Advertising And Promotion. There's Just Something About Salesmanship That Grates On Me On A Very Base Level And I React Very Negatively Towards It. I Want Those People To Suffer And I Want Their Enterprises To Fail.

The Band Cannot Sign To Another Label Or Even Put Out Its Own Material Unless They Are Released From Their Agreement, Which Never Happens.

If The Label Presents Them With A Contract That The Band Don't Want To Sign, All The Label Has To Do Is Wait. There Are A Hundred Other Bands Willing To Sign The Exact Same Contract, So The Label Is In A Position Of Strength

Over The Last Thirty Years Or So, I Have Definitely Become More Enlightened About Corners Of The Social Spectrum That I Had Less Exposure To As A Young Man. I've Interacted With More Poor People, More Minorities And More Sexual Minorities. As You Get More People From Different Backgrounds Involved In Your Life, You Get A Broader Perspective And You're Less Cavalier About Your Opinions.