From the desk of Dick Tator.
As Stubby's gets going on the second album it's got me thinking about the current state of the music buisiness. Digital technology came in and made the promise that we all could have the whole world of music at our fingers. Everybody knows that the record companies have been screwing us on the price of cd's for almost three decades. Now everybody is freaking out, "Oh, piracy is stealing from artists!". Well 15 bucks a cd is stealing from kids! The only people who are losing money from piracy, is the bloated and amoral companies, and if you ask me it's about time.
All the money that has flowed around the industry, Millions and Millions of dollars, for years and years, lining the pockets of bean counters and pencil pushers, whose job is to find more refined and efficiant ways to get the most buck for the least bang. eff' em'.
Something else recently made me puke. A full page ad in a national megazine, with that dude from the neptunes sporting a diamond stud earring about the size of my thumb. I mean he was Blinging! His quote: " Stop frontin', piracy hurts everyone." Please tell me he's not a corporate whore doing his pimps pr to the public. Maybe he actually thinks that. Someone should tell him that music is not auto parts, or groceries, or toilettries. Go on baby, squeeze the charmin.
The answer
It's a brave new world. Music can be shared across our ever shrinking planet at an ever increasing rate. I can kick out a record and it can be broadcast in goddamn Afganistan that same day. What do I need a record company for? In my virsion of the future, recorded music is nearly disposable. Free records for everybody, anything they want. Everything is better when you share. Then the only value in bands is the live show. Yes! Back to the way music should be. Face to face. Artist and audience. We don't need a middle management. We can bring it ourselves. As soon as we think about it that way, piracy becomes a boon. Please burn our album. Make a thousand copies. Give them to everyone you know. Then when we come to town, come see what we really sound like.
And if you don't have a computer, our cd's are only five bucks at Anchorage's finer record retailers.