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vince wrote: IanB wrote: [quote="zphage"] with tour sponsorship thrown into the deal. Has to happen because the wider public really have been manipulated into not giving a flying fuck about the idea of buying recorded music any more.
Tour sponsorship has been around for ever. It's the difference between breaking even and losing money. I've been sponsored by swatch, rizla, ricard...you name it. I'll happily take it up the corporate ass if it means I don't have to pay to play my music.
Of course tour sponsorship has been around for a good old while (I can remember wrangling money out of Levis back in 1989) but not when combined with the same companies actually paying for albums to be recorded. I have no problem with tour costs being under written by some benefactor with a product to push but do we really want records to get made that way? Waaaay too intrusive for me.
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