Well, not quite, though Time cites an A&R exec from a ‘major European label’:
“This feels like yet another death knell,” emailed an A&R executive at a major European label. “If the best band in the world doesn’t want a part of us, I’m not sure what’s left for this business.”
They’ve gathered predictable (and justified) collective gasps of shock and awe on all blogging fronts and you have to see the move as an unqualified triumph of viral marketing as a result. I particularly liked Digital Daily’s sly headline – “This is what you get when you mess with us.“
Pre-order here. I think I’m going to pay £8 (I somehow seem to have acquired the last couple of records without money changing hands and I feel guilty). What about you?
P.S. I don’t seem to be the only blogger guiltily trying to make up for past misdeeds…
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