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# 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.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 21:29, archived)
# As long as you
take my back catalogue and make me rich...
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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?
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 22:16, archived)