Sure, a lot of the stories going around are as old as rock'n'roll, and jazz, blues, and other American pop style, but some of the stories are things like "I was 21 and I was sleeping with the guy that lived in the record store because he was giving me free tapes, and now I see that he was abusing his power imbalance over me" or "I slept …
Sure, a lot of the stories going around are as old as rock'n'roll, and jazz, blues, and other American pop style, but some of the stories are things like "I was 21 and I was sleeping with the guy that lived in the record store because he was giving me free tapes, and now I see that he was abusing his power imbalance over me" or "I slept with this guy when I was only 18, because of his power." Sounds transactional, but who's initiating these transactions?
It's more concerning to me that the whole label would totally shutter so quickly. It's not like these guys were sexual power brokers like Miramax. It sounds like they were a few burnouts in their early '30s thinking they're living in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." This means that all of the records that the label handled go out of print, and they had a pretty big catalog (and not just of a bunch of LA party types). Suddenly having your titles go out of print - and maybe even getting pulled from streaming platforms - during a pandemic where you can't perform live for what appears to be an indefinite period of time is not good for people in indie music, who are living a pretty tight existence these days as it is.
Sure, a lot of the stories going around are as old as rock'n'roll, and jazz, blues, and other American pop style, but some of the stories are things like "I was 21 and I was sleeping with the guy that lived in the record store because he was giving me free tapes, and now I see that he was abusing his power imbalance over me" or "I slept with this guy when I was only 18, because of his power." Sounds transactional, but who's initiating these transactions?
It's more concerning to me that the whole label would totally shutter so quickly. It's not like these guys were sexual power brokers like Miramax. It sounds like they were a few burnouts in their early '30s thinking they're living in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." This means that all of the records that the label handled go out of print, and they had a pretty big catalog (and not just of a bunch of LA party types). Suddenly having your titles go out of print - and maybe even getting pulled from streaming platforms - during a pandemic where you can't perform live for what appears to be an indefinite period of time is not good for people in indie music, who are living a pretty tight existence these days as it is.