Comments on: Indie Rock Sues Rolling Stone and Camel http://www.indyish.com/indie-rock-sues-rolling-stone-and-camel/ You might be awesome, but we are the Indyish! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:08:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nadine Benny http://www.indyish.com/indie-rock-sues-rolling-stone-and-camel/#comment-23813 Nadine Benny Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:19:47 +0000 http://www.indyish.com/indie-rock-sues-rolling-stone-and-camel#comment-23813 YEAH!!! i think 10 years ago these bands actually might have felt this was getting them extra exposure, artists used to be lined up for a shot at playing with the big boys. now they're fighting back and getting what they deserve. interesting fact from the often obnoxious but sometimes insightful Bob Lefsetz, on the drop of holiday music purchases from last year: "There were fifteen albums that sold in excess of 100,000 the first week of December last year. This year there were EIGHT! (...) Furthermore, four of the eight selling in excess of 100,000 WEREN'T ON A MAJOR LABEL!" Take that big boys! YEAH!!! i think 10 years ago these bands actually might have felt this was getting them extra exposure, artists used to be lined up for a shot at playing with the big boys. now they’re fighting back and getting what they deserve. interesting fact from the often obnoxious but sometimes insightful Bob Lefsetz, on the drop of holiday music purchases from last year:

“There were fifteen albums that sold in excess of 100,000 the first week of December last year. This year there were EIGHT! (…) Furthermore, four of the eight selling in excess of 100,000 WEREN’T ON A MAJOR LABEL!”

Take that big boys!

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