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Chuck D
from page 7
said, alleging that the record companies
change formats every several years to
force fans to repurchase their music col
lection.
“The public has no choice when they
bought that Marvin Gay album in 1971
for $6.99 and bought the same damn thing
20 years later for $ 17. The period of 1986
to 1997 was known as the Big CD Scam
— a period that showed that artists
weren’t going to get the big payday, on
ly a select few. Executives would get the
big pay day, with CDs going for 300 per
cent on the dollar.”
Chuck D has put his money where
his mouth is in helping to found RapSta
tion.com, a Web site dedicated to em
powering rap acts from around the world.
He said he measures the site’s success by
the fear in Corporate Artierica’s eyes.
“Three years ago I was crazy, two
years ago I was sued, last year I was a par
asitic threat and this year I was compe
tition,” Chuck D said toward the end of
his talk.
The CMJ fest was proof that atten
tion to independent music is growing,
whether from the Internet, discontent
with major record labels or otherwise.
More than 51 clubs hosted shows during
the four-day event, which ran from Oct.
19 to 22, and bands played to mostly ca
pacity crowds huddled in venues from
the spacious Bowery Ballroom to cozy
Parkside Lounge.
Only a few major label bands played
the event, and many independent record
labels — from Chicago’s Bloodshot to
Olympia, Washington’s Kill Rock Stars
to Wellington, Delaware’s Jade Tree -
found they had sell-out crowd’s at the la
bel showcases.
Even former major label acts fared
well at the fest. Jimmy Eat Wbrld, a Mesa,
Ariz., band dumped by Capitol Records
in 1999 after two poor selling albums,
has a new home on the independent la
bel Big Wheel Recreation and played
to a sold-out crowd at CBGB’s.
With the independent spirit in the
air, many panelists remarked at the con
vention’s surprising lack of attitude, which
has almost become synonymous with ma
jor labels. Independent record company
owners mingled with college radio sta
tion program directors, and the New York
Time’s senior pop critic Ann Powers
handed out free advice to college jour
nalists.
Many experts from the fest’s 50 pan
els uiged students and attendees to ap
proach them and ask for jobs, advice or
both. Many did. But just as many atten
dees took the independent spirit to heart
and attended the conference to promote
their own Web site, band or Internet ra
dio station.
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