Surviving Christianity: Major Labels Drop the Ax

Friday, December 21, 2007

Major Labels Drop the Ax

On page 15 of the December '07 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, this article sites that the recording industry is taking a serious hit to their bottom line forcing an exodus of pink slip recipients back into the unemployment lines.

In the right sidebar to this site is a "Don't Buy Into It" icon that we have been promoting here at Surviving Christianity for several months. The general idea is to boycott the record industry for mistreating the public with poor talent and high prices. They are trying to control everything we listen to by making us pay repeatedly for every form of media with Digital Media Rights.

Some of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time came into being for free! Mozart died a pauper, just for instance. The maniacal reach for our precious dollars at every turn has become obsessive and only we can turn off the spout... by closing our wallets.

And it appears as if it is working. The record industry is collapsing under the pressure. Chances are, the big four labels will not even resemble their current structure a year from now.

If we could do this throughout the economy... just think of the power of the purse! We could cripple our own non-responsive, self-interested, self-absorbed government officials and bend them to our will...

if we would only work together to stop them from receiving any money. If everyone would just close their pocket for a week, or even a day, in concert they would get a message loud and clear that they only have the power because we give it to them.

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