Comments on: I am Trying to Break Your Heart and the Future of Content http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content Independent Bookstore Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:50:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1#comment-1095 Dave Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:50:24 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=900#comment-1095 Patrick, you sucked me in with the title of the post... and I wasn't disappointed. It's time that I watch the film again, too. I lucked out, seeing it in a theater here in Portland. YHF wound up being one of my favorite albums -- period. The parallels to publishing are interesting to consider, and the glimpse inside that creative process was mesmerizing (firing Jay Bennett! -- when Tweedy starts talking about how they don't need so much guitar... it's such a great, and incredibly sad scene). Patrick, you sucked me in with the title of the post… and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s time that I watch the film again, too. I lucked out, seeing it in a theater here in Portland. YHF wound up being one of my favorite albums — period. The parallels to publishing are interesting to consider, and the glimpse inside that creative process was mesmerizing (firing Jay Bennett! — when Tweedy starts talking about how they don’t need so much guitar… it’s such a great, and incredibly sad scene).

]]> By: Worth the Click | Vromans Bookstore Blog http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1#comment-1089 Worth the Click | Vromans Bookstore Blog Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:46:40 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=900#comment-1089 [...] can and will quote this thoughtful response to my Wilco post of yesterday:  “All of which suggests to me that, for all that there’s an attempt to set [...] [...] can and will quote this thoughtful response to my Wilco post of yesterday:  “All of which suggests to me that, for all that there’s an attempt to set [...]

]]> By: the scowl » Blog Archive » On Wilco, Joe Meno, and Editors. http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1#comment-1087 the scowl » Blog Archive » On Wilco, Joe Meno, and Editors. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:42 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=900#comment-1087 [...] Interesting post from Patrick at Vroman’s looking at Sam Jones’s film I Am Trying To Bre... and how its subject — the recording and release of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — relates to many current debates on the evolution of media. I’m glad to see someone raising the subject of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, because I do think that the issues surrounding its release are worth revisiting — though my angle on things is more in line with the argument that the YHF debate, along with a number of copyright and distribution issues currently up for debate, long predate the popularity of digital formats for music. [...] [...] Interesting post from Patrick at Vroman’s looking at Sam Jones’s film I Am Trying To Bre… and how its subject — the recording and release of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — relates to many current debates on the evolution of media. I’m glad to see someone raising the subject of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, because I do think that the issues surrounding its release are worth revisiting — though my angle on things is more in line with the argument that the YHF debate, along with a number of copyright and distribution issues currently up for debate, long predate the popularity of digital formats for music. [...]

]]> By: Lauren Lepucki http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1#comment-1085 Lauren Lepucki Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:55:29 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=900#comment-1085 Thanks for reminding me that I have to head straight to Amoeba after work tomorrow! Thanks for reminding me that I have to head straight to Amoeba after work tomorrow!

]]> By: Gillian http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1#comment-1083 Gillian Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:01:46 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=900#comment-1083 I personally am impressed that you made it through that whole post without using the word "Rockumentary." I also personally love the word "Rockumentary" and have added this one to my queue. I personally am impressed that you made it through that whole post without using the word “Rockumentary.” I also personally love the word “Rockumentary” and have added this one to my queue.

]]> By: ChaiG http://blog.vromans.com/i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart-and-the-future-of-content/comment-page-1#comment-1081 ChaiG Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:12:32 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=900#comment-1081 <b> <blockquote cite="“I know it’s cool to bitch about your record label, but they’re giving us $85,000 to make a record in our loft and they haven’t heard any of it.”"> </blockquote> Which begs the questions: 1. Did it really cost them $85,000 to make that record in their loft? & 2. Whatever it cost, why not just pay out of pocket? Eventually that money is going to have to be paid back, that is what an "advance" is right? It seems to me that the music and publishing industries have two purposes, the first being to front money, and the second being to market/promote/distribute media, all of which the "internets" seem to be doing quite well without them. If you can figure out the money, the second obstacle seems much easier. check out this article on how one artist is using twitter/blogs to do what her record company can't/won't http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090623/2337095343.shtml?threaded=true

Which begs the questions:

1. Did it really cost them $85,000 to make that record in their loft?
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2. Whatever it cost, why not just pay out of pocket? Eventually that money is going to have to be paid back, that is what an “advance” is right?

It seems to me that the music and publishing industries have two purposes, the first being to front money, and the second being to market/promote/distribute media, all of which the “internets” seem to be doing quite well without them.

If you can figure out the money, the second obstacle seems much easier.

check out this article on how one artist is using twitter/blogs to do what her record company can’t/won’t http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090623/2337095343.shtml?threaded=true

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