[trash-talk] foockin' money makin'

[Shell Bryson]

> however, I have 4 DVDs from the BLM tour, another 3 are 
>coming ;)

:D

> > at most  gig or offer free tickets?).
> Queen Helen? well, it's not a fansite actually, you 
>win..

Yes but that's a political thing. QH gets things from 
Warner France. Unfortunatly, they have zero impact on 
anything outside of France. Warner UK, and Geffen in the 
US dont give *anything* away for free. Not a single thing. 
We literally have to BUY things to give away "for free". 
Very quickly you realise $20 per member is *nothing* 
compared to the costs involved. Someone somewhere paid for 
the 60 tickets we gave away for Chicago, for example. 
Venues NEVER give away tickets. Even the ones radio 
stations "give away" are either paid for by the bad 
themselves (literally) or the radio station buys them from 
the label. It's a crazy situation, but it happens with all 
bands. Nothing is ever free. If we want Shirley to do a 
chat for the site that's fine. But who pays to fly her to 
the place where we chat? Or pays for engineer to go to her 
hotel with a laptop? Or pays for her car to drive her to a 
venue? Fans forget that these things cost a fortune.

While none of this is a good excuse for a bad website, 
it's eye-opening when you actually sit down with an 
expense account in front of you and realise that every 
single dollar is counted by someone :/ I wish we had a 
huge budget for the site, but frankly we dont. So we do 
what we can with what we have.

> I've never seen such stuff before to be honest. For 
>example, Muse (g 
> labelmates)... there are many 'exclusive' videos for 
>free, competitions, 
> shop, messageboard (there band's insider appears) apart 
>of pictures. 
> Check it: http://muse.mu. I hope they'll not fuck it up 
>with Warner now.

Lets hope too. They have a great site. I'd love to have 
their budget.

> And again, official site is often... not very 
>interesting. Ok, but there 
> must be proper information about releases and tourdates! 
>Correct WDYLM 
> vinyl image at least!

:)

> Slava