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My Fratellis Video

was banned by Warners a couple of weeks ago in a copyright claim, which was interesting as Warners don't own them. I got it back by contacting the Fratellis direct. But WMG then banned my Take it Easy vid, which they had already had muted 6 months ago. I had only left it there for the comments. They are so grown up.

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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:27, archived)

Record companies are pricks

I'm going to learn how to do it myself and set up my own label. Doubtless I shall become a prick but hopefully I'll also get rich in the process.

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:29, archived)

As long as you

take my back catalogue and make me rich...

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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:34, archived)

Ah but if I'm starting a record label

then I get the right to sit there and poo-poo other people's music and laugh and snort coke and steal their ideas.

What a job. WHAT a job.

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:39, archived)

Actually i think the job now

is to churn out plastic Barbie/Ken bands doing covers or get someone to talk, sorry rap, over music from 30 years ago then whine that people are killing music by file sharing it.

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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:45, archived)

Well, I can do all of that, too

That's *easy*.

In all seriousness it can't be hard to start a record label. I mean, Forward, Russia (no, sorry, upside-down exclamation mark Forward, Russia!) did it and they were an inbred pack of fucking retarded chumps who wrote really, really rubbish music.

You're not in Forward, Russia, are you? I don't think I'll be able to release your music if you are.

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:52, archived)

I'm not with any label, and never was

it was only ever a hobby and a bit of pin money; I did some session singing but really i was only ever resteraunt/hotel lobby class. I've retired now but still have a load of old demos*

*on 78s

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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:57, archived)

Get those demos onto a computer

and start flogging them through iTunes. Unless Apple have stopped us being able to sell stuff through iTunes, in which case let's set up a small record label and register to flog them through iTunes.

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:59, archived)

Ha! I mave made some of my vids to them

But only covers, and they have all bindun, and far better. I will make my fortune elsewhere, methinks.

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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 22:04, archived)

Vids, eh?

I believe* if you've got a record label, you can charge YouTube for video showings.

1) Upload vids
2) Set browser to watch videos a million times
3) Profit

* This may not be true but it'd be nice if it was.

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 22:06, archived)

Ha! foiled again

I have 80 vids posted, not all mine, and I'm at just under 2 million views, for the lot. At a tenth of a penny per view, we will be poor a looooong time.

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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 22:13, archived)

That's still two grand

Minus the record company's cut, you might see a few hundred bob. Better than a smack in the mouth on a dark night, eh?

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 22:16, archived)

I had that happen to me

over Holiday Inn Cambodia for the Dead Kennedys.

Strangely enough though, Belle and Sebastian hasn't banned the vid I made for them...

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Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:47, archived)

Yeah but Belle and Sebastian are brilliant people

Allegedly. (A friend of a friend knows Chris Geddes and says that *he's* a good guy, anyway. So, by extension...)

Plus, I sound like Stuart Murdoch when I sing. So they must be great people.

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boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:53, archived)