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It’s time for Albini to take back his taking back the claim that she’s an idiot.
I’d sooner work for Mitt Romney: at least with him it’s honest what’s going on, and you get pay and a healthcare plan till he fires you.
It’s time for him to take back his taking back the claim that she’s an idiot.
I’d sooner work for Mitt Romney: at least with him it’s honest what’s going on, and you get pay and a healthcare plan till he fires you.
I’d rather work for Mitt Romney. At least while you’re working for Bain you get healthcare.
I think her mistake was backing down on it now she has had time to do so.
This is why union rates were invented: so you can’t persuade people to pay pro gigs for peanuts. Even working for Mitt Romney has better employer benefits.
I’ll quote the Joker: If you’re good at something, never do it for free. The assumption that you can earn a living playing music for free is wrong. It just tells other people that you’ll work for free. Collectively, people (with rich parents) being willing to do this has destroyed the ability of people to work as musicians. This is why union rates were invented.
Let me make a comparison: as a biochem major, I do evening private tuition in biology and chemistry. If my agency told me that I should work for free to ‘get exposure’ I’d burst out laughing.
This is a new low for music and has just destroyed her image. Rather than admitting that ‘jamming with the fans’ is something best left for a charity gig rather than a expensive professional one she’s backed down on her position.
I was a science major; I still do chemistry and biology tuition evenings and weekends. If a tuition agency told me to do that for anything less than fifty bucks an hour ‘to get exposure’, I’d burst out laughing. Playing music shouldn’t be any different. Sorry.
Hahahaha!
Look, this is my problem. At first it seemed like she was ‘doing it for the fans’ and it seemed like an admirably naive idea by someone who’s been successful for a while and has a rich husband. But her backing down on the topic has got uglier. If she wants to jam with her fans she can do it at a charity gig, not one where people are paying $20 minimum a head.
Because it makes it harder and harder to earn a living as a professional musician!
And if people who can afford to will work for free then people who can’t afford to live in New York on tips won’t be able to get started in the music industry. I’ve seen discussions of how journalism is now closed to people without the money to fund unpaid internships.
^ not backing down on it…