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If you were to look at the artwork on Behind The Suit and Tie, you’d probably think that this movie will crucify the money hungry labels, or maybe promotion agencies, or maybe even fests and venues for having an insane cut of the merch sales.
I was stoked that I’d finally see how in ‘the business’ everyone seems to make money but the bands. The trailer turned out to be four minutes of three interviews where people complained about illegal downloading, and how it has destroyed sales and the livelihood of the bands. Consider their logic that - at a show - more people sang along with a band’s songs than the amount of CDs sold in that region, meaning the fans had to be illegally swapping. Brilliant.
Does this mean that behind closed doors the metal industry people spend the day blaming slumping sales, a lack of any creative online media program, growing irrelevance, spending loads of cash for hyped up advertisement that doesn’t work, and charging the same amount of money for either a real or digital CD on the kids who illegally download music? Possibly so. If it is, prepare to sleep through a 90-minute bitch fest that will do nothing more than further reinforce that labels take no responsibility for their destiny.
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Bands don’t need to make money. They get to play music and travel for a living. That’s payment enough. Plus, they’re just doing it for the art, right?
I’m totally gonna download this movie for free.
I couldn’t pay attention to the video because the advertisement of chicks in their underwear was distracting me.
wow.
OMG it must be horrible having everyone at the show sing along.
how tragic.
There’s still alot of metal listeners who do pay for music, though. I mean, Killswitch Engage (hate em or love em) have a gold album. Notice nobody from Roadrunner, Victory, or Solid State Records was featured in this. Maybe it’s because they’re selling more albums now than they ever have. These guys just aren’t signing the right bands or marketing the bands correctly or losing all their bands that do sell to major labels.