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tennis in challengers (2024) dir. luca guadagnino

#challengers

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remember when we thought there would be another my chem album

#:)

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#this is a very fork found in kitchen event but i am still pacing

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to the sea

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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.

#really incredible stuff

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steve albini's passing feels gut wrenching. have appreciated many people's reflection on his work and legacy today, including hanif's

#:(

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Poster 03 in my gig poster challenge for the year. Creating a piece for each concert I attend in 2024.

#yes !!!!! gorgeous #one of my favorite shows of this yr so far!

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i don't know why i am the way i am, not strong enough to be your man

challengers (2024) // not strong enough (boygenius)

#challengers #i lied -> i am -> just lowering your expectations

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eating pasta salad, watching trapped under ice sets, editing the april issue of the cd collection newsletter (its so late & i dont even have a favorite new cd of the month)

#compared to last night's kimchi fries the pasta salad is uninspired. pedestrian

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song of the moving out of the city where you feel indescribably lonely summer

#Bandcamp #its my fault i did this to myself coded situation

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drowning now, i drank too hard, now im (not okay)

#had this in my likes a reminder to listen > obsessed #+1 if folks like the not ok ref on head just wait for the not ok ref on lover's spit plays in the background

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emailing viking's choice lars "is this rosewave 2024?"

#Youtube

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she slayed this so hard

#bowen yang your Mind

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I can change, when I’m ready to change

#every once in a while i will be like. A ha ha ha the fact that this song is real? and then i cry abt it #Bandcamp

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a sweaty subway ride

#Yes perfect

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bruh he hit him with the tsugi ni omae wa

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exactly

friend texted me "SHOW US MAPLE LEAF SQUARE" at the exact moment i sent her a voice memo yelling the same thing

#:)