Comments on: Who is Responsible for Kurt Cobain?? http://www.indieupdate.com/2006/08/06/who-is-responsible-for-kurt-cobain/ Indie Music Blog - Independent Music News and Reviews Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Fardreamer http://www.indieupdate.com/2006/08/06/who-is-responsible-for-kurt-cobain/#comment-28965 Fardreamer Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:26:33 +0000 http://www.indieupdate.com/who-is-responsible-for-kurt-cobain/2006/08/06/#comment-28965 I have such mixed feelings about the big music labels and how people feel about them, particularly in the negative end of the opinions-spectrum. On the one hand, it's not exactly great for so much business-power to be concentrated in the hands and minds of relatively few executives, who, by the way, shape the taste of the audience in ways large and small. On the other hand, I don't see why someone would feel like they are selling out or losing their cred as a musician if he or she signed a contract with a big label, unless one wanted to remain a "starving artist" type. I have such mixed feelings about the big music labels and how people feel about them, particularly in the negative end of the opinions-spectrum. On the one hand, it’s not exactly great for so much business-power to be concentrated in the hands and minds of relatively few executives, who, by the way, shape the taste of the audience in ways large and small.

On the other hand, I don’t see why someone would feel like they are selling out or losing their cred as a musician if he or she signed a contract with a big label, unless one wanted to remain a “starving artist” type.

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