Beware of Dark Agents
From last Saturday's NY Times:
Unpaid Shills Wanted Sony BMG, fresh from being exposed by a blogger for planting stealth, and potentially dangerous, antipiracy code in some of its CD's, is seeking interns to plug its artists online. The interns will promote artists in Web communities where many people go specifically to share music without the influence of corporate marketers. "Do you blog, have lots of friends at your MySpace page, and love music?" its ad at entertainmentcareers.net asks. Epic Records, a Sony BMG imprint, "is looking for skilled, motivated interns to promote artists on social networking sites like MySpace, Purevolume, Facebook and others." The ad doesn't say whether the interns will identify themselves to their online "friends" as agents of Sony BMG. But they'll get college credit (for this unpaid job, Sony BMG only wants applicants eligible for that) and a bullet point for their résumés, so what's the difference?
I'm sure they're going to blend right in. Planted comments about Train will surely be undetectable.
Especially on this blog.
Written from jerry yeti's cave at 3:25 PM
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I totally love Train! you should too! go train go!
stealth baby. stealth.
On a totally 'nother note, Morningwood is AWESOME!!! YAY!!!
it's gonna be hard to to decipher between stealth and just really crappy taste in music. but beware indeed. indie labels have built themselves via stealth as well.
peace
the morningwood people actually fooled me when they bombed BV's comments after Siren. Then I listened to it and thought it must be some prank.
wow, jerry, this is completely fucked, i mean, targeting established blogs might not be a terrible thing, because if someone passes you a record and it doesn't suck you don't mind promoting it, but this is some back handed shit. and since they will actively go after the market, it is just another way for them to destroy any indie influence or cred bloggers and kids doing it on their own once had. fuck the machine
i really do love Train though. I did a whole post about how their readio singles suck, but the rest of their disc are great. for real. who needs indie cred?
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