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I would like to be paid like a plumber
The Evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the Dumbest Person Is on Your Side, You’re on the Wrong Side’
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I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so. There's no fucking way I would ever take that much money. I wouldn't be able to sleep.
I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so. There's no fucking way I would ever take that much money. I wouldn't be able to sleep.
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The mind-blowing proposal letter Steve Albini sent to Nirvana
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After a few more go-rounds with the lawyers, we signed the contract in blood. (Actual blood. It was a metal label; we figured that was appropriate.) They paid us $100,000 for the eternal rights to the album that we’d recorded for $20,000 (territory: “the universe,” just in case our albums started selling big on Mars). Thanks to the lawyer, I kept m
... See moreAmanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
“The recording part is the part that matters to me – that I’m making a document that records a piece of our culture, the life’s work of the musicians that are hiring me,” he said. “I take that part very seriously. I want the music to outlive all of us.”
theguardian.com • The Evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the Dumbest Person Is on Your Side, You’re on the Wrong Side’
I asked everyone if they would pitch in up to $5,000 for the recording and printing of the record, with the promise that we would pay the money back within a year, sooner if possible.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
