Thursday 6 August 2009

Random, but kind of connected, thoughts

1. NewsCorp lost $3.4bn last year. Mainly thanks to giving away free online content.
2. The Amnesiac Review lost somewhere in the same region.
3. Thom Yorke says, "If you forget about the money issue for just a minute – if it's possible to do that, because it's people's livelihoods we're talking about – and you look at [the digitalisation of music] in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different."
4. Someone I know who may or may not be intimately connected to the music industry says, "I’m gonna hunt him down and slap him. Such a righteous prick. SO easy to say when you’re eight albums down the line on someone else’s promotional money. Ignorant prick."
5. There's a sect of fetishists called Feeders. Look it up for yourselves.

1 comment:

ASH Smyth said...

Re 3. The record-industry high-flier (who may or may not be related to you) will be interested to hear that Howard Goodall - million-selling composer of such theme-tunes as Blackadder and Vicar of Dibley and now Composer In Residence at Classicfm - has written a piece called beati pauperes: or, 'Blessed Are The Poor'.