Billy Corgan Slams Music Industry

I do not think he is upset he is worried about that everything blows up?

And he is right there are still "sell your soul to us" contracts.

There is, and always was, a lot of greed in the music business as well.
There is no difference to the Bangsters.

Its a question of integrity of the labels/distributors.
They should offer the artists fair deals which make a living possible.

You cant eat the gold EP they gave you.

The business changed but the minds are still in the old greed mode.
Its simple, if they do not change their greedy minds artists will stop signing contracts with them.

Why should I sign a contract which leaves the value for my work out.

Lucky freedom from fear to those who found a small label which was founded by a musician.
They still sell plastic, they have a small -but loyal- fan base.

I want my songs, those ones I wrote form the heart, to be heard; and not consumed like McDonalds food.
You only can have this with formidable customers.

Billy Corgan actually is a very powerful artist. I once saw him crack a coconut on stage with his thighs.

LMAO!!!!!!

While I agree in principle with Billy Corgan , Billy himself is the reason Billy's no longer relevant!

He's now a Libertarian. Just when I thought I couldn't respect him less.

First 3 albums are still great, but Billy is a toad.

I think you've missed the point. the consumers are paying for music and paying lots of money for music. the issue is they are paying apple and pepsi and not the artists. Corgan is saying artists need to start to believe in their value and make the large companies pay them for their craft.aka taylor swift sticking it to apple.

I think Corgan has some valid points, but in the end it seems he's mostly all about Billy. I don't think he'd reach a hand very far out to form an "artist type union" with any other than his own contact list. It would be nice if I was wrong about that. If more people who are able to draw the spot light from the news media spoke out, maybe eventually there would be an upward trend to artists being a unified force to form their own industry apart from the dying business model of using and abusing the foundation of the performing/recording arts - the artists and creators. If folks in and out of the industry who had an interest in what happens to all, in the form of building a new model apart from the vipers of the past, they could place a reasonable value on their work that couldn't be seconded guessed or whittled away by the "feckless idiots".

The same for a new broadcasting model... If it was taken in a different direction, where the end distribution networks would be vying for a position from an overseeing artists group, then there would be a viable and fair industry that benefits all; from bottom to top.

Lots of people inside the industry fail to understand the role advertising plays. Back in the '70s the cheapest form of market research was calling local record stores to learn what people were buying. This worked very well for us. It was a supercharger on sales although not the instigator of sales like many people assumed.

Beginning in the '90s advertisers started choosing music based on its ability to sort listeners into the demographic groups they wanted to pitch to. Focus groups were employed to do this. At that point exposure diverged from sales to the point that airplay no longer reflects sales much at all. He who pays the piper is who calls the tune.

It's resultant of the "$ is the ONLY thing that matters" mantra, the free market has indeed spoken and it said Art is useless, "brought to u by Walmar t and transformers 17 the final final apocalypse"

when's the last time a good movie on par with say "as good as it gets" or ? came out? We're smack dab in the middle of a culture crisis, it's turned an utter bonehead shitfest 2000!

Now I respect him more.

exceptions, not the rule, there used to be many many good choices, not anymore imo.