Essentially he ended up *being* a goth of sorts. I don't think that track belongs here; it's written more out of love than spite.

Kasem was actually fairly reasonable too–his letters to Negativland make it clear that he didn't want to infringe on their freedom of speech, but he was embarrassed at how he came across in the song, and asked Negativland to acknowledge this. They didn't, of course; they were actually the worst of the bunch. A lot of…

FWIW Great Plains were great. 'Dick Clark' is also a solid diss track.

Me too. They did a great job with the Wire catalog. The On Returning comp is a very good introduction to the early stuff.

Great writeup. I didn't pay attention to Game Theory first time around, but I recently picked up the Real NIghttime reissue and loved it. 'Friend of the Family' is my favorite thing.

Enigma was a crazy label–indie pop, thrash metal, hair metal, synthpop, U.S. distributor for Mute records, Wire mach 2, Devo's later work, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, soundtracks to amazing B-movies–clearly a label where people were legit just releasing what they liked. (Although they were also part [and later…

I'd bump that up to 80%. Andrea has like 5 minutes of screen time this episode and it's enough to make me wish she'd been the central character of the show.

I think all of Vinyl's problems stem from somebody, perhaps from HBO, thinking that a show about the record business wouldn't be interesting enough.

Great episode of We Hate Movies to highlight—Nightmare Beach is my new recommendation for people who want to start listening to the podcast. Indeed the listeners have done a better job requesting movies than the hosts of late; hopefully the do another listener request month this year.

I've been a fan and defender of Vinyl from the start, but I'm about ready to get off the bus with this episode. The story of Andrea coming in to save a record label is miles more interesting than Richie's story, which manages to hit literally every downward spiral cliche. (If it was supposed to be a surprise that he…

It's effective because when you eat all that fat you feel full all the time and don't want to eat more (I've also used it successfully)

If there are any lawyers here: this verdict certainly gets tossed out on appeal, right? I know Gawker isn't wikileaks but this seems to set a bad precedent…

I'm 73% certain that Macho Man and Nudeor were the same commenter.

For what it's worth (and I haven't listened to the AVC podcast, which maybe addresses this) I think Koenig's a little too credulous in this episode. If she really thinks the Bergdahl deal was the event that threw a wrench into plans to close Guantanamo she clearly hasn't been paying attention the past seven years. I…

Not a counter-argument, dude. I'm just not in the mood to get sucked into another argument about the music industry with some guy whose understanding of economics comes from a 101 class they slept through and dime store Randian libertarianism, capped off with a contempt for artists and the notion that what they do…

Now change your name to johnnys_gonna_die and see if they write up that one.

*facepalm*

The A.V. Club

Well, even in this day and age if an artist wants any hope of support a label's the best option. And labels' relationships with Spotify are themselves rather fraught. The bottom line is, you can't complain about artists criticizing Spotify because 'they agreed to it'. It's far more complicated than that.

Just about any band on a record label. What, do you think they negotiate with every artist individually?