Yeah right.
Just music?..Elvis probably had the same mentality as you.
Be mad all you want, they couldn't care less what anyone else thinks.
Remember Woodstock '98?..ah yes, it's all about the music.

oh..what pray tell is a whigger?

nice headline, I used to like linkin park before they 'came out'.. a little while after too...
this has been up here for awhile though, no?..

nice headline, I used to like linkin park before they 'came out'.. a little while after too...
this has been up here for awhile though, no?..

Someone who's white but acts like they're black.

[Edited on May 08, 2005 2:41PM]

How does one "act black"? Is that like, the opposite of Wayne Brady, who people said wasn't black enough after he got his own show?

By black I meant stereotypical gansta hiperty hoperty urban black. And I think you knew that...

oh.. rap metal

I thought it was crap metal.

Couldnt WMG just re release their previous albums with new names? Would anyone even know the difference?

"We feel a responsibility to get great music to our fans. Unfortunately, we believe that we can't accomplish that effectively with the current Warner Music."


riiiight
there are millions of other bands out there "getting great music to their fans" who arent making millions of dollars doing it
making millions of dollars isnt required to make music
thats fine if what they want is to make tons more money than theyre already making, but they cant act like all they want it to make music"

[Edited on May 08, 2005 by JomRopGame]

You're having a laugh!?
Linken Park production is one of the worst I've ever heard - it just amounts to compressing the hell out of everything, so none of the instruments sound real anymore!
Interesting that the Albini article was mentioned cause
1) if you want to hear good production that captures the way a band actually sounds when they play then you should check out some records he's recorded
2) anyone who's a real band and thought at all about what they're doing ie. researched a little about what signing to a major might mean is likely to have read that, and even if they havn't its a well known fact that major labels screw over bands (be it over money, artistic issues whatever)

Someone mentioned they've sold x million records
I expect Celine Dion has too - doesn't necessarily mean her music is good does it?
Music at the end of the day is art, look at the art most people have hung in their house and its bland 3rd rate watercolour landscapes or some such, not prints of Jackson Pollock
And music being art then the music should come ahead of profit. To the person that said thats the argument of the music pirate, I say as a musician myself - thats total BS!

At the end of the day, I'm behind anyone who fights the major labels on behalf of the artists and if this is what Linken Park are doing then I support them, I'm just not sure it is - I feel they're only fighting for themselves (and only financially at that!)

Whatever, guys. When you're an artist, you grab what you can when it comes by. Careers in the arts aren't the easiest to live off of, and when you score, you make damn sure you're getting all you can. Cause five years later, you're back to square one and you better have planned ahead.

Is Allison Janney in the wrong for doing radio spots for AIA? Hell no. You take jobs when they're offered to you. You know what keeps you under a roof and eating when you're a working actor? It sure as hell ain't Jim Jarmusch movies or Shakespeare in the Park. It's Benadryl commercials and instructional videos. And when you get that big break, you milk that motherfucker for all it's worth.