Trent Reznor’s Interview on Digg
We swear we’re not Trent Reznor groupies. The man just has a lot of great ideas on how to effectively market your music directly to fans without a label–and we’re all about empowering the artist! So in case you missed our post earlier this week notifying you of the interview Kevin Rose of Digg did with Trent, we got your back! Check out the video below. If you need more convincing, then read this quote by Trent below:
“One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? Who the f**k made that rule? Oh! The record labels made it because artists are dumb and they’ll sign anything’ – like I did. When we found out we’d been released (from their recording contract) it was like, ‘Thank God!’. But 20 minutes later it was, ‘Uh-oh, now what are we going to do?’ It was incredibly liberating, and it was terrifying.”
Right on!
