quoted 17 lines I'm curious as to what it was that I said in my post that led you to believe> I'm curious as to what it was that I said in my post that led you to believe
> that "in my universe only rich people and trust fund kids get to be honest
> artists, writers, and musicians". Are you trying to tell me that for a
> struggling, working-man, IDM or Drum'n'bass artist, the only way to make
> ends meet is to sell a song that you sweated over for months and made you
> money and new fans in various clubs to fucking VW? I can think of other
> ways to make ends meet. It's called a work ethic. I honestly don't have a
> problem with a signed musician throwing something together for a TV
> commerical that meets their personal standards for such a thing. The thing
> that bothers me, is giving up rights to a released song that people
> appreciated to a fucking car company (or dot-com, or anything else). I feel
> betrayed when I hear a song like 'Little Fluffy Clouds' that I used to like
> and brings back some fond personal memories, being used as a soundtrack to a
> bunch of goddamn gasoline powered cars spinning around in some perverse spin
> on human expression. I would never fucking let that happen if I was in a
> position to stop it.
>
actually. most of the time the artist is in no position to stop this from
happening. the record label owns the mechanicals and they decide whether
or not a track gets sold to VW or whoever. the artist gets publishing
money every time it is played...however has no say in its use. guaranteed
my friend that alex patterson had no say in the use of his little ditty in
that ad to which you refer above. it actually makes the commercial more
interesting to me really... im not gonna go right out and buy a fucking vw
bug so all it serves to do is throw down some groovy little tune whilst im
scratching my ass between teevee shows. have a nice day. tunafish.
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