Greed or passion?

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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Voodoo Billy » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:25 pm

Psychedelicfur wrote:
King Of Kings wrote:Did you know Mac sold his copyright to is songs and thefore any royalties he might recieve


Think it was around 2014 (give or take a year or two)


Hah, some dumbfuck actually paid money for the royalties of Proxy? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Kounelaki » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:51 pm

fat cherry wrote:wonder if this (slightly off topic) will affect that many artists

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57445303

People tend to assume mega fanboys and girls are kind of stupid in buying everything, but they do have a choice whether to buy crap like this.


On related note:
The Jesus and Mary Chain sue Warner for £1.8m over copyright infringement
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... fringement

Bunnymen were WEA in North America, too.
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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Psychedelicfur » Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:18 am

Voodoo Billy wrote:
Not to be sniffed at for 90 minutes work.


Not bad time wise but if that’s all you’re doing for that week and the next one…

£500 doesn’t even pay for a third of my rent.

Don’t forget to take into consideration mgmt’s cut, transportation, roadies, incidentals. Back to $0 again in no time.
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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Voodoo Billy » Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:41 am

Psychedelicfur wrote:
Voodoo Billy wrote:
Not to be sniffed at for 90 minutes work.


Not bad time wise but if that’s all you’re doing for that week and the next one…

£500 doesn’t even pay for a third of my rent.

Don’t forget to take into consideration mgmt’s cut, transportation, roadies, incidentals. Back to $0 again in no time.


Oh, that makes sense, I didn't understand they were paying your rent. :lol:
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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Kounelaki » Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:14 pm

Voodoo Billy wrote: Oh, that makes sense, I didn't understand they were paying your rent. :lol:


Is this a Pet Shop Boys thread?
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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Voodoo Billy » Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:05 am

Kounelaki wrote:
Voodoo Billy wrote: Oh, that makes sense, I didn't understand they were paying your rent. :lol:


Is this a Pet Shop Boys thread?


:party-dance: (Mr Brian, can you please get us an emoji of a miserable keyboard player to insert here?)
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Re: Greed or passion?

Postby Psychedelicfur » Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:16 pm

Voodoo Billy wrote:
Psychedelicfur wrote:
Voodoo Billy wrote:
Not to be sniffed at for 90 minutes work.


Not bad time wise but if that’s all you’re doing for that week and the next one…

£500 doesn’t even pay for a third of my rent.

Don’t forget to take into consideration mgmt’s cut, transportation, roadies, incidentals. Back to $0 again in no time.


Oh, that makes sense, I didn't understand they were paying your rent. :lol:


When Will was my partner for 10 years time, he could barely afford to pay half of my plane ticket to wherever we were going so, no, we never got to the rent aspect of it.
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