Fuck Bill Nguyen.\u00c2\u00a0 This guy deserves to DIE!<\/p>\n
My inbox is sacred.\u00c2\u00a0 But in the last ten minutes I’ve gotten six e-mails from people at lala, or members, who knows who the fuck they are, they’re listed as "lalacrew", telling me they’ve got CDs to trade and to SIGN UP!<\/p>\n
Did this asshole never read Seth Godin?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s it’s now about PERMISSION MARKETING???\u00c2\u00a0 Bill and all his robots can sink into the ocean as far as I’m concerned.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to e-mail me personally, respond, ask me a question?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m all for it.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to send me unsolicited form e-mail then you deserve to DIE!\u00c2\u00a0 You’re a spammer.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s shit like this that makes me support the major labels.\u00c2\u00a0 Just another young asshole techie who thinks he owns the music, not having invested a dime in its production.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, where does Bill get off.\u00c2\u00a0 Selling used CDs and trying to make it look like he’s a savior when he pays no royalties (legal in this case) and covers it all up by saying he’s donating to musician foundations.\u00c2\u00a0 This ain’t the Grateful Dead, lala.com is not run by hippies, it’s run by cold calculating asshole businessmen. The ANTITHESIS of what the music USED to represent and still does on some indie level…<\/p>\n
Go fuck up in your sandbox, and leave my inbox alone.\u00c2\u00a0 If I want to trade CDs on lala.com I’ll sign up and do it MYSELF!\u00c2\u00a0 The more you reach out to me, the more I insure I run from your product and tell EVERYBODY what a jerk you are and that they should run too.\u00c2\u00a0 This is how the major labels got in trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 By ABUSING their audience instead of trying to be in cahoots with them.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s adversarial as opposed to together.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’ve got no tolerance for people who are not friends of mine.<\/p>\n
Not that I was gonna write ANY of the above when I got back to my room in the Sheraton, but I’m worried that this asshole gave my e-mail address to all 400,000 lala members and my inbox will be dead forever.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the kind of sick games these techies play.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why you lose all that time to spam.\u00c2\u00a0 Major labels not playing by the rules?\u00c2\u00a0 Techies who never went on a date until they were in their twenties know no limits in trying to fuck over those who they believe fucked over THEM!<\/p>\n
I’m really pissed.\u00c2\u00a0 Because if you met this guy Bill Nguyen, you’d know he’s not from this planet.\u00c2\u00a0 If he does shit, if he’s not a robot, what comes out doesn’t stink.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s saving the world, as he gets richer and richer.\u00c2\u00a0 FUCK OFF AND DIE!<\/p>\n
It’s still coming in.\u00c2\u00a0 From the same asshole AGAIN!\u00c2\u00a0 Two from this guy Ryan Self.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, why don’t YOU e-mail him.\u00c2\u00a0 His e-mail address is: _________.\u00c2\u00a0 This works BOTH WAYS!\u00c2\u00a0 I already sent this guy an e-mail to stop, but he sent ANOTHER ONE!\u00c2\u00a0 Identical to the first.\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of like with spammers, you answer their e-mail and you’re SPAMMED FOREVER!<\/p>\n
Anyway, I WAS planning to write to tell you about this morning’s session, which was very good.\u00c2\u00a0 Because halfway through the man from Domino, John Dyer, started to speak.<\/p>\n
This is a business of people, not math.<\/p>\n
And the people have been squeezed out.<\/p>\n
This English guy talked about working with Sigur Ros.\u00c2\u00a0 And how they WANTED to market themselves, but if they did, it would alienate their audience.\u00c2\u00a0 And speaking of audiences, he talked about crossing the chasm, getting from the early adopters to a more general audience, how you had to do something to goose it.\u00c2\u00a0 But it had to be a long gradual plan, not an all out attack, like the major labels usually employ.<\/p>\n
But what was most fascinating was when he spoke of his trip to Korea.\u00c2\u00a0 Where he experienced a virtual world, via their extremely high speed network.\u00c2\u00a0 People were paying to have virtual parties in their virtual living rooms.\u00c2\u00a0 They were BUYING virtual t-shirts!<\/p>\n
And lest you believe that it’s only in Asia, John told us about his son being a member of Club Penguin.\u00c2\u00a0 For three dollars a month, his kid can play in the virtual world as much as he wants.\u00c2\u00a0 Where every Friday they make new merch available, which you can buy with points you’ve accumulated during the week.\u00c2\u00a0 And sometimes they run out, and sometimes you can’t get into the hip rooms, and his son is addicted, but he believes it’s better than having the kid out in the street.<\/p>\n
And then John spoke of owning a record shop.\u00c2\u00a0 And having his customers complain that there were two shitty bonus tracks on a collectors’ single.\u00c2\u00a0 Why include them if they weren’t good enough THE FIRST TIME AROUND!\u00c2\u00a0 The acts believe the customer wants more cardboard, more info, but the consumer\/fan only wants GOOD INFO\/STUFF!<\/p>\n
And with the Arctic Monkeys it was about gaining an identity, through the comedic elements of their show.\u00c2\u00a0 Spreading the word about WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT!\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas with another act, it was about INTERACTING with the fans, talking with them on the message boards.\u00c2\u00a0 Not every band should utilize the same plan.<\/p>\n
And there’s not enough talking on the INSIDE either.<\/p>\n
John released a mashup album, cut in Belgium and then imported to avoid legal issues, and entitled it "Volume 2", even though there was no Volume 1, so fans would come back to shops and ASK for Volume 1, thus triggering phone calls from the shops to the distributor and ultimately John, fostering a DIALOGUE!<\/p>\n
And Erin Kinghorn, from Nettwerk, she said it took eighteen impressions to make an impact, more than double what it USED to be.<\/p>\n
And there was conversation about video games, and music’s inclusion therein.<\/p>\n
And I noticed, whenever anybody spoke about the penumbra, the virtual worlds, videogames and computers, there was a gleam in their eye that was ABSENT when speaking of music.<\/p>\n
Music is a second class citizen.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s our fault.<\/p>\n
Three new lala e-mails.<\/p>\n
Including a response from a person I told not to send me anymore e-mail.<\/p>\n
This is it.\u00c2\u00a0 From a DIFFERENT e-mail address:<\/p>\n