As bad as you think they look, you are looking worse in this exchange.

“We’re also here to honor Famous Amos… Great guy. One of the best, best blacks in history. Tremendous guy. I’m hearing big things about him lately. Big impact.”

Please god let this be true. I am dying to hear all the morons whining for months about how this bizarre & arcane “voter registration” process is how Hillary & the Dems “rigged” the election.

lol too perfect

Huntsman is about the only modern Republican I could EVER see myself voting for. Kasich comes off well, and obviously he hasn’t bene tainted by Trump, but if you actually dig into his policies, he’s really not as good as he appears. I’d have the guy over for dinner, but I wouldn’t vote for him.

I used to be a tour manager for arena level acts, and I work in another part of the industry now, so I know how the numbers break down.

So how does a band tour and make money? Do you just show up at a venue when Foo Fighters are playing and ask if you can open the show for a few grand?

What you fail to realize is, even if ALL the money from record sales went to the labels (which isn’t the case) - the artists would probably take that deal because they NEED the labels to invest in them, help get them publicity, get them played on the radio, get them on the road (which isn’t just about financial…

I’m amazed at the collection of music industry accountants and experts we have in the comments section of Jezebel. This is truly a great collection of minds! I’m honored to be in your presence.

“A huge boon for FINDING new music”? OK, I can concede that… but that has absolutely nothing to do with musicians making MONEY. Great, so you’ve found a band you like on Spotify… stream stream stream that shit and MAYBE they’ll make a penny or two from your listening on their quarterly statement. Do the math to see…

Let’s get real - you don’t know anything about the music industry. No not all of that money would go to the artists, but SOME of it would, and more importantly a significant amount of it would get reinvested back into music via producers, songwriters, new artist development or other processes that help music be the…

Well it depends what is meant by “downward spiral”, but your snarky response doesn’t disprove anything. Are we talking about the quality of music? Or something more accountable, like actual industry sales, revenues, or profits? The former argument is debatable, although I’d say music including top-selling pop music…

I’m sure you’re such an expert on the industry. You’re saying the labels should give the artists a bigger % of a much smaller pie. Yes, they could give the artists more, but even if the “greedy label bosses” shared more of the profits with musicians, that does NOT change the fact that record label profits,…

what the hell does this have to do with “vindictive ex-boyfriends” ?

I don’t think this stunt was a good idea, but WHAT THE F does it have to do with “revenge porn” ? Why even bring that up? That has nothing to do with this whether it was real or fake. They’re NOT the same thing. Is it ok to do that cause the band did an irresponsible thing by starting this? Do 2 wrongs make a right?

Taste. You’re missing taste.

if you’ve already purchased Earthbound for the Wii virtual console, do you have to buy it AGAIN ? If so I HATE that they do this.