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Category: NO MAILED... Music
So, there's been a change to the schedule.
Yes boss, this week I'm going to be even less reliable than the UK postal system: Deliveries are going to be late, at my own whim, and I'm going to strike at whoever and whatever i damn well please..
So same as usual then...
Talking of the postal strike, I just had a chat with the postal picketers down by my 11 O'clock.
Yes boss, whereas the rest of the postal service have got back to work until Monday at least, London posties are doing wildcat strikes, which means I haven't had a damn delivery for a week now - i therefore felt the need to take issue with them.
My specific problem is that Mrs G is doing her nut because 2 of my checks are caught in the backlog and I don't have the rent or a pot to piss in for what could be a very long time - and this is the flaw of this strike action.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm the first boy to levy a firm kick to 'THE MAN'S' balls whenever a decent opportunity presents itself, but if you're going to do it, you have to have a firm and decent strategy and these posties don't have one that I can see.
No boss, by fucking with deliveries, vast numbers of people are going to find themselves getting fined and charged by all and sundry for late payments, late returns, late bills, late rent bal balh blah - not to mention people not getting birthday cards, presents and ebay parcels etc
It's my bet that this kind of thing will soon loose the posties, the public...
I do take their points of strike - or at least some of their points (discounting the one that says doing something different at work each day is a bad thing) But pissing off and alienating the public ain't gonna help any and 'The MAN' is a big, tough BITCH who knows this. HE'LL therefore most likely sit it out and wait for the strike to crumble under public pressure, which it will sooner or later...
The only way to mount a successful protest these days is to understand that real altruism community has mostly disappeared and that people are raw selfish. Try denying them their candy and they'll most likely spit at you as help out with your cause....
Anyway what the fuck has all this got to do with music??
Nothing, absoutely nothing...
So, down to business...
Basically, I had a brief correspondance on the T-Toe blog yesterday. This started with a light hearted comment about getting paid to write blogs. It went something like this...
I'm interested that you say you would never pay to read a blog - it was of course a tongue in cheek comment, but it does seem to be the case that the days of getting paid to work creatively are coming to an end for most...
Basically, I think we're referring back to a situation where everyone has a go as an amateur and the fully paid pros - excepting the big boys - will be few and far between...
For example, I currently write this blog with the dedication of a professional. I spend more than 10 hours a day, writing, researching and networking it, yet it seems there is no immediate hope I'll get paid to do it (short of advertising satan or merchandising)
The thing is, people now expect to get the kind of information contained herein for free - as they do music, images etc. In the pre-internet age, people were happy to pay to buy a magazine or a record, or else make do with a crappy copy or borrow a mates...
Radiohead and Prince dishing out LPs for free is all very well, but this sets the precedent and LP prices will bomb further still. This'll have a shocking effect on the smaller bands. Sure these big boys can pull in big gate reciepts at gigs and make their money back, but small bands can't and prices for performing live music in this city and most others are shitty and getting worse...
I therefore suggest that contrary to Alan 'Che' McGee, Chuck D and the likes proclamations, the internet would therefore appear to be nothing short of a financial disaster for lower level and semi-professional artists/writers and musicians...
Rather than opening up the floodgates for the good shit to come flooding through, msypazz is loaded with shit bands with 100,000 friends who make no money and waste peoples time. Meanwhile all the good acts and writers still aren't getting paid, are obliged to give their work away away for free and are then expected to do their own friggin PR!!!
BAN THE INTERNET - THAT'S WHAT I SAY!!!
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Chill Out
By The KLF
Release date: By 08 April, 1993 |
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