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The whole thing highlights that the system as it stands today is more or less obsolete.
OK Go is invested in the internet as a vehicle, and it seems to me that a lot of what they're doing today is trying to recapture the success/phenomenon/magic of A Million Ways (see also Here It Goes Again, the new video as featured in the above letter).
There's a shift happening between bands and their labels that I think is significant, and I think the assumptions made in the letter above are a bit off the mark on that one. What's certain for everyone who pays any attention at all is that the times they are a-changin' and the music business in 5 or 10 years isn't likely to bear much resemblance to the music industry of the past or present.
I have a lot more to say on this subject, but I'm a bit short on time right now. I'll revisit this later, if the details haven't been hashed out by the time I get back to it.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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