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My first thought when reading about the Sony payola settlement was that maybe they’re just diverting their payola funds to bribing blogs and this is a nice way to put a positive spin on that. So cynical! This CNet article called ‘Indie record labels seeing gold‘ lifted my spirits though. Apparently the 5 cent per song raise we just got from iTunes was due to some intense activism. Sweet.
I like all the dirty payola scams and emails that are coming out, someone should be saving them all. Such as:
The payments often came in creative forms, such as providing the station with “contest prizes” such as digital cameras, laptop computers or concert tickets, which sometimes found their way to DJs. In one case, an executive suggested getting a DJ’s shoe size, sending one Adidas sneaker right away, and sending the second shoe of the pair after a particular song had been played at least 10 times.
That’s fantastic! Also:
“WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET AUDIOSLAVE ON WKSS THIS WEEK?!!? Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen.”
“HELLO IS THERE ANYONE I CAN BRIBE IN THERE”
“HELLO”
“ANYONE??”
“OKAY I’M GOING TO LEAVE A STEAMER TRUNK FULL OF MONEY ON THE PORCH”
“BE BACK LATER TO SEE IF YOU TOOK IT”
Update: here’s a decent PDF full of payola emails.
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2 Comments on this post
failrate on M-M-M-My Payola
August 2, 2005 at 4:06 pm
I *knew* no one could be willingly putting Audioslave on the radio with bribery. I *knew* it!
Tilted Edge on M-M-M-My Payola
August 3, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Oh well this has been going on forever. There is something even more incidious though which is legal and that is the fact that the industry people are friends with each other and are more likely to do business with people that they know and like. I’m going to guess that a lot of them know nothng about music and have bad taste which is good for them because horrible music is exactly what most americans want and love. The industry is bad. The inudstry is evil and American consumers are stupid so it’s like a match made in heaven for all.