How ridiculous.  Wind-Up was/is successful because it plays by COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT rules from EMI.  EMI is a tightfisted company destroying team
morale by constantly focusing its employees’ eyes on the bottom line. 
Wind-Up is an operation wherein no fee or distance is too large if the company BELIEVES in something.  Wind-Up is the kind of company EMI SHOULD be.  Something nimble, that signs few artists it believes in and doesn’t give up on them.

Not that Wind-Up wastes money.  It’s a lean operation.  Wherein employees are
allowed leeway, they’re trusted.  The OPPOSITE of EMI.  God, if you hire
people and constantly look over their shoulder you’ve got a recipe for DISASTER! 
Wind-Up is a team.  EMI is a collection of fiefdoms.

Wind-Up signs what’s not fashionable, knowing that there’s a true audience
for it.  EMI signs, OVERPAYS, for what’s trendy and is then stunned when it’s
not instantly successful.

Wind-Up believes in rock.  The kind of heartland rock that never dies.  EMI
signs acts like Courtney Love, who had a moment at best, and then front-loads
the promotion to no effect.

Wind-Up looks for alternatives.  EMI plays by the rules.

If ANYTHING should happen here, Wind-Up should buy EMI!

But, as the old cliche states, EVERYTHING’S for sale.  It’s just a matter of
price.  Who WOULDN’T take $125 million for a company with only two hit acts. 
Both of which are in question.  The guy in Evanescence who wrote the hits
having left the band and Scott Stapp starting over as a solo act.

This demonstrates that EMI doesn’t get it.  It’s about REPLICATING the
Wind-Up model, not BUYING IT!  But EMI is too caught up in short term quarterly Wall Street cycles.  It’s got no long term outlook.  Hell, blaming your lousy
quarter on the slippage of release dates of Coldplay and Gorillaz seems to
indicate you ONLY have Coldplay and Gorillaz.

Then again, if they buy Wind-Up, they can mess with the numbers one more
time.  Which might be the only thing EMI is good for, stuff like shipping catalog
records with endless dating.  They’re constantly putting band-aids on a
business that needs a tourniquet.

EMI is all old wavers.  Who don’t get the new game.  Which is find REAL acts
and develop them over time.

And you wonder why the major labels are in trouble…