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nirvana-collector · 9 months

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IN UTERO

#Nirvana #In Utero #Kurt Cobain #Dave Grohl #Krist Novoselic #Steve Albini #Geffen #DGC #90s #Cobain #Grohl #Novoselic #Albini #CD #Compact Disc #collection #collector

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frenchcurious · 4 months

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Fauteuil "Tre Pezzi" d'Albini conçu Franca Helg en 1959, réédite par Cassina depuis 2009 - IDEAT avril-mai 2014. - source Frenchcurious.

#franca helg #albini #cassina

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scavengedluxury · 30 days

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#steve albini #based advice

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wolverineblues · 30 days

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#steve albini #rip

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postpunkindustrial · 30 days

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R.I.P. Steve Albini

#steve albini #punk #diy #noise rock #rock

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punisheddonjuan · 1 month

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In honour of his passing, posting Steve Albini's legendary polemic against the music industry.

Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed. Nobody can see what’s printed on the contract. It’s too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody’s eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there’s only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, “Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke.” And he does, of course.

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THE BALANCE SHEET This is how much each player got paid at the end of the game. Record company: $710,000 Producer: $90,000 Manager: $51,000 Studio: $52,500 Previous label: $50,000 Agent: $7,500 Lawyer: $12,000 Band member net income each: $4,031.25 The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never “recouped,” the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won’t have earned any royalties from their t-shirts yet. Maybe the t-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.

The worst thing is, as bad as it was back in 1993, it's a thousand times worse for musicians in 2024. 1993 was before "Pay-to-Play" venues were as ubiquitous, and before some venues started taking a cut of the merchandise sales. 1993 was before CD sales collapsed, before file sharing, before Spotify ruined things further with its dismal royalty payments, its algorithmically driven discovery mechanism which is biased against the experimental, the daring, and the difficult (and women for that matter), and its proliferation of fake artists. It is not a good time to be a musician.

#link #article #music #the baffler #the quietus #steve albini

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officialfrankieteardrop · 1 month

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steve albini, 1995 shellac interview

#steve albini #shellac #the second one was my tumblr pfp for years #rip man

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monkeytrick · 3 months

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#Steve albini

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thoughtportal · 30 days

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#bsky #steve albini #the rolling stones

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ryojiokada · 2 years

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nobrashfestivity · 30 days

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It's just crushing to hear about the death of Steve Albini at age 61. He was one of the rare people influential on music as musician, producer and advocate for the working band. The records above are just a sample of his work as an engineer and producer. Needless to say it's a seminal bunch of albums.

These records certainly impacted me, but I would say seeing his bands when I was teenager was huge. His guitar sounded like it was made out nails. Sometimes it sounded like James Brown played through industrial machinery. They were funny and irreverent but most of all I think it represented music that was free from chains of the music industry. Since punk went corporate it may be difficult for people to understand that, for many of us, it wasn't about the musical style but rather that it represented the idea that music was not just for rock stars to play throngs of screaming fans. You, in fact, could do it too.

And that's it, I doubt he would want the hagiography to come. Or as Marlene Dietrich says in Touch of Evil, "What does it matter what you say about people?"

#steve albini

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onihcinimkcin · 30 days

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