Did you stop to think that maybe the reason he doesn't want to sign to a major label is for selfish reasons like being reimbursed for his music, rather than being hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to the very people that are supposedly working for you? I agree with Robin, I don't know why anyone who isn't already making millions of dollars would want to sign to a major label.

Oh and you really did some great research here with this article Maura, congratulations on basically copy and pasting the pitchfork article and adding some sarcastic side notes. It pisses me off when people think that they are the end all gods of music knowledge because they check up on what pitchfork thinks about any given situation three times a day.

Except for me.

I hear ya loud and clear.

But I recall Pearl Jam went on this crusade all by their lonesome, while the likes of REM’s Peter Buck voiced support but didn’t actually take a real stand. More importantly, I remember a close friend and die-hard PJ fan complaining at the time, that the band should just give up this cause and play the venues that were convenient for him and his fellow fans to attend.

If their fellow artists and their own fans weren’t willing to band together in getting rid of Ticketmaster’s usurious practice, why should they take the hit all by their lonesome? So they said fuck it. And we got fucked. Still are.

And I don’t really think that they are that hippie-ish. I think they might just be laid back and sorta lazy with grooming. How many honest-to-God hippies do y’all really encounter in the indie scene?