Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.
Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.