The problem with music
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed."--"The problem with music" (1993) by Steve Albini |
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"The problem with music" is an short critical essay by Steve Albini on the music industry, first published in 1993. It was subsequently printed in The Baffler, vol. 5 and reprinted both in Maximum RocknRoll #133 and in Downhill Battle (en español). Commonly circulated with the title "Some of your friends are [probably] already this fucked," after the title of MR #133, and the last line of the piece.
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