I mean major labels serve their purpose. It really is hard for an artist to break into the mainstream without one. But they are certainly the scum of the earth and usually do everything they can to stifle creativity. At least they have a lot of talented producers working for them and a lot of resources at their disposal.
I'm all over the map in what I listen to. I've got a larger music collection than a human being should possibly have. The stuff I listen to ranges from Daft Punk to Marilyn Manson to Hillary Duff (yes, I listen to Hillary Duff, only her new album though which is amazing. Her first two albums are garbage) with all kinds of artists in between. I'd say I have a healthy balance between "mainstream" music and "independent" music, although those lines have become increasingly blurred recently.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
