There really is NO WAY that you can call a major label like Jive an
independant label.
Those fuckers are making millions off selling their musical version of
ex-lax.
Rob
component records
www.mindstorm.com/component
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc 3 Poirier <mpoirier@virtu.sar.usf.edu>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] IDM in the US mainstream
quoted 10 lines Yea, Kent pretty much hit it on the head here. As recently as the 60's,>
> >Yea, Kent pretty much hit it on the head here. As recently as the 60's,
> >"independent" labels were able to get singles into the top 10, but now
> >only the majors (Universial, EMI, Warner, Sony and BMG) can get decent
> >distribution much less hits.
>
> Jive Records (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, *nsync, R. Kelly,
> etc.) is independent, actually. Brings the question into my mind of just
> what the hell independent means, though.
>
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