So the merger of the giants is complete, eh? (Canadian blood runs through these veins). Ticketmaster and Live Nation will now team up to brutally *expletive* our collective *expletive* at every single show that your or eye wanna go see. Now that's not really fair to our *expletives* is it? How does this affect life as we know it? A lot. Un mucho. Things are gonna change in the industry, and we have to do something to fight back.
The first thing you can all do is make a check out to Little Big.....(un chiste te juro!)
Keep stealing music (from demon record companies not independents) ! Stealing music forces artists to play live; those who can't hack the jammage are gonna get body-slammed. In 1965 the Beatles stopped touring entirely, which was great if you were in the Beatles, George Martin or Phil Spector. But it locked them in a vinyl box. Heck, everyone can sound great in a tin can. Force you favorite artist to perform. (not like Tim McGraw-style vomiting-all over-self)
See live music. Buy tickets (even you got to go through Ticketmaster/LiveNation). Buy T-Shirts. Tape concerts and trade freely, buy the album for the album art, the lyrics booklet, and the musicians' little baby children's college fund. Let's hope there is a future in music, so we don't have to get jobs.