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Edited Nov 22, 2014, 08:39
Re: Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry
Nov 22, 2014, 08:35
Robot Emperor wrote:
A brief quibble about his financial status as a "millionaire record producer". From that Sonic Highways program I understood that he insisted on a wage for his production jobs rather than the traditional percentage of sales. A large part of the Chicago program was given over to his resulting financial woes, supposedly playing poker to pay bills.

If so this would change his perception point of the business from one of height looking down to one of someone still in the thick of it trying to get by.


Fair comment. He may be on hard times now and whatever he made in the 80s and 90s he may well have spent it. I don't think In Utero was a fee-only gig though. A couple of points on a record selling 10m copies or whatever it ended up doing will buy quite a lot of out board. I still think his perspective comes off as a akin to the champagne socialist but hey ho. Maybe my wanting my grandkids (when they come along) to have a socially relevant mainstream is tilting at windmills.
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