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| From | Jason Dunn <jasonhalogen@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: OK Go does it again |
| Date | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:27:53 -0500 |
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That's my favorite thing about the story - the video was paid for by State
Farm. OKGo, yet again, circumvents their record company. EMI keeps trying to
screw them, to the point where they refused to fun the video for this song -
AFTER the one-shot videos they'd made with no budget whatsoever went
completely viral and sold thousands of copies of the record - which, of
course, paid EMI.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The funny thing is that just a week or so ago, I read an interview woth one
> of the band members (in the NY Times? can't remember...). Anyway, he was
> complaining that the terms of their record company contract technically
> prevents them (the band) from posting videos online like this, even though
> the millions of viewings from the "treadmill video" made their record go
> viral and sell hundreds of thousands of copies... he also said that their
> last royalty check from digital video rights was something like $27....
>
> I was able to see it on a link from the Gomez myspace page and I guess what
> Gregory pointed out for us to look at might have been posted "unofficially"
> by an OK Go fan.....
>
> I wonder if, someday, traditional record companies might get their act
> together....... or are they doomed? Sales off, mismanagement of digital
> strategies, examples onerous "care and handling" of their customers abound
> etc etc etc
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Sent: Mon, March 8, 2010 11:24:59 AM
> Subject: OK Go does it again
>
> Especially recommended for Rube Goldberg fans:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
>
>
> Gregory Sager
>
>
>
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