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January 26, 2006

Selling Indie Music For Cheap

Maria pointed to a screed by Patrick Monaghan at the saki store blog, who's annoyed that indie labels like Merge and Matador are now selling their wares at Best Buy at discount prices. I guess the post has been making the indie label rounds since Merge and Secretly Canadian commented about it in these threads.

Indie is hot and trendy right now--is it going to get like the alternative boom of the 90s with everybody trying to boast about their indie cred to be stylish? As I was reading Britt Daniel of Spoon (who has seen a few trends come and go) say the other day in the New York Times,

"There are great bands on major labels and bad bands on independent labels, but it seems like the records made on independent labels are more about real creativity and more heartfelt stuff," Daniel said. "It may just be a three-, four-, five-year cycle where indie music is cool. Sometimes I get cynical, but people tell me, 'No, this is the way things are going to be from now on."'

As Iggy once sang, "Here come the assholes they can smell the money."

Posted by timothompson at January 26, 2006 04:21 PM