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this is a really interesting talk, so insightful wrt to where the independent industry was 9 years ago. Sadly with the economic stagnation since then and huge numbers of artists competing to play a few struggling venues, at least in the uk, these astronomical touring profits are no longer a thing. The recent widely shared guardian article explains this well. It's another flashpoint where we gotta get diy n find a new way

I can't believe he's gone. He made some of my favorite albums. He will be missed immensely.

The internet has fucked the major labels over >>>>> GOOD PS - The way that he carries that Macbook triggers me to no end 😂

RIP Steve!

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I love how in the end he mentions how if Spotify becomes "politically unattainable" for him he can just take his music off the platform pretty easily, and as of 2023, Shellac's records have been pulled off Spotify precisely because of their shitty politics.

Tim Heckler! 😂

boooo hooo steely dan

I met Steve Albini at NAMM in 2008. He was pretty cool, he was yelling and flipping off this guy who was showcasing Battle DJ equipment huling insults at him and bragging about owning a callipoe. that same day there was commotion at the Dean Markley booth, I didnt see it, i only heard it, but a friend did see it and allegedly, Albini tugged really hard on a man's goatee and a fight broke out. NAMM used to be wild. We need Steve back up there.

DEATH! SUCH AN AMAZING STORY!

In just 6 years... this did not age well.

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Wrong. taking someone else’s labor output and calling it sharing is the most basic violation of civil liberties. the right to property as an extension of ones labor is contramand to slavery. Albini is ok. But he doesn’t have the provable moral position to defend the adage of taking simply because one desires it

5:15 that laugh sounds Australian

The thumbnail is the most Steve Albini thing ever.

"If such a thing were possible when I was a teenager I'm sure I would have been a right nuisance to the Ramones..." :-D

2019 - The Rolling Stones made / profit was $177 million for sixteen dates, US$1200 for some tickets, such thievery by them & the Corporations who "OWN" them forever until & after the death of these Corporate controlled musician's. Their insatiable greed will never end, believe that. Want to live in debt for your entire adult life? Become an Artist/Musician in the late 20th & early 21st. century. Steve talks the truth and is one of the main reasons we don't hear from Steve that much, Corporations HATE him as is clearly seen when they tried to get Steve who was the original Producer to completely redo/re-mix "In Utero" by Nirvava, he refused as did the band and the album was pretty much how they wanted the album to sound thank God! Corporations clearly need to die, NOT the people who are born Artists or Musician's dying prematurely do to being broke and exploited and squeezed like a lemon until anything creative left in them is sucked out!

Is that a speech or is he just reading a bed time story to everybody?

Thought this was Ozzy from the thumbnail

His opinions are as mystical as his t-shirt.

It is better for artists and listeners in a lot of ways. It just sucks that people still expect "radio quality" from an independent band or artist. In a way we are used to the polish in todays songs on the radio that a lot of people compare it. Not every musician can become an sound engineer, music marketer, social media marketer, manager, booking agent, photo and video editor and still do the music side of things. Albini motivates me tho. Its hard with all that stuff and wanting to do music the best on top of being the best all around. Im trying to incorpoarate some of the struggles and lessons along the journey. Just sharing some of my thoughts. But I love Steve and motovated to make music by his outlook to.

like like like like like.

This dood went from being an abrasive malcontent to being punk rock's reasonable dad. I'm a fan of both versions.

But that doesn't explain why music in 70s and 80s was better than in the internet era. Internet actually ruined the music.

41:00 and high sound quality

Damn, I am super late on this but this is a really cool event! It's interesting hearing about all the behind the scenes stuff.

The shirt he’s wearing added 10 years to my life.

What a dude inscredible. Please write a book steve. A very long one that I can crush other books with.

Some awesome thoughts there by a very talented and experienced guy. For people interested in this kind of stuff I also recommend David Byrne's book, "How Music Works"

Always interesting. Steve's a very important historical figure who represents a lost time that was very dear to so many of us in the Midwest. And his brain cells are still in tact, obviously. And to think we never really understood what it was they (they being ' the machine' inside the music industry) until "they" signed a bunch of our ("our" being the people in the underground scene) bands in the early 1990s and proceeded to rip most of them off by charging off their expenses against the band's earnings. Helluva racket that nobody really understood at the time, evidenced by the fact that so many bands wanted to get in the door. On another note, Steve is under-reporting how broke everybody in the underground was in the late 1980s - you can only survive on the kindness of landlords for so long. He's right about how much freedom everyone enjoyed once they got their heads around the idea that you were never going to get signed by the majors,, and that "they" thought your Midwest city was a joke. But there weren't that many of us, even in Chicago (though Chicago had its population advantages over, say, Milwaukee, Detroit or Cleveland), and distro was not that great - you had to be very austere to survive -and Big Black and Steve and Touch and Go tried to teach us how to do that, in a way. The underground network in the Midwest was a beautiful thing, big population centers, easy ways to get around, college radio downtown, shitty economy filled with dilapidated property owned by landlords who were satisfied to see a little something every now and then. If the mainstream hadn't stepped in and tried to be competent for a couple of years, we might have held out a little while longer, but it was not meant to be. Eventually they were going to find out what was going on and figure out a way to get their hands in it. I remember when Pearl Jam and Alice and Chains were the big business anti-christs that nobody wanted to emulate -- I guess the 12 year olds of the day had other ideas, leading to Nickelback and nu metal, and that's whose money the record industry is always after, Brittany Miley Cyrus. I do love how the internet has opened things up, but as Steve mentioned - you're still gonna hear Phil Collins while you're grocery shopping. If I go to the neighborhood bar, somebody's going to play Pantera or Pearl Jam or Miley or Def Leppard whatever garbage was shoveled down their throats when they were 12 and didn't have the resources to acquire better sounds. In a way, the internet has solved this problem, yet it has a cocooning effect. I miss the days when there were active scenes outside your door, downtown somewhere in a broken down warehouse building that still had electricity and where you could find other urban noise people, puking their guts out on some sidewalk somewhere because they drank too much Mad Dog or Thunderbird. We lost that, and Steve's right -- it's never coming back.

well, it's a shame, that music channel couldn't manage to fix "s" and "p" sounds.

Some good points made but the old "I suppose some people are out of work but so were the blacksmiths when cars replaced horses" doesn't wash. The situation is not the same. The blacksmith became obsolete, the demand for his services dried up. The music creator has not. There is still huge demand for what he/she creates. People still want it they just don't want to pay for it. Until people en'masse take it upon themselves to purchase directly from independent acts or support them via crowdfunding, the industry will continue to degrade.

Yea we get it, you hate labels. There's a reason 99% of the major acts are still on labels even though in theory they could go it alone. Promotional muscle that cannot be matched and an infrastructure that deals with the minutia so that the band/artist doesn't have to. Don't get me wrong nobody wants to go back to the days when the labels held all the cards, the artist should be top of the deck, but in my area live venues are closing down year after year and dedicated promoters have become a rarity. Finding exposure has become increasingly difficult. Sure, savvy marketers will continue to push forward using stunts and gimmicks but nine times out of ten their music sucks almighty balls. How will the consumer hear the great new bands who don't have advanced promotional acumen? Bands that just create the best shit? Answer=they won't. I only hope that crowdfunding becomes more of a passive interest rather than a directed one and that bands of substance can find the platform they've worked for.

Interesting speech. He's bang on about John Peel, great guy. Fiercely championed bands he thought were worth it. Seems so easy yet proves to be so difficult for most.

People won't stop making music because of money. Music has been around before money; it's the language of the soul.

HOW ABOUT TAPES?

people still use tapes

42:00 record stores used record stores second hand stores still sell LIMITED EDITION VINYL

around the 24 minute mark writing letters back and fourth is another way also IT WORKS

if you are looking for something rare -like an old childrens record, and not legally released stuff like big black-but you don't want to pay the equivilant of a million dollars from a private collector:How about hearing John Lennons fathers recorfd release instead of looking for it.john paul jones pre led zeppelin 45 rpm single....how about BOOTLEG LIVE CONCERST OF BIG BLACK? ALSO NOBODY REMEMBERS RECORDING ONTO CASSETTE TAPES AND 8 TRACKS AND REEL TO REEL TAPES?

The Canadian punk band BFG put out an album with a great sarcastic title: "There's No Solution.....So There's No Problem." And that is the problem I have with this genie-out-of-the-bottle argument Albini presents. Yes there IS a problem!! We used to have a mainstream and a solid underground, now we have a two-tier system: those who star and those who disappear starving. How is this good?

Ha. Tim Heckler. This is a fantastic keynote!

100% correct As all corporations Major labels were parasites thanx god they be dead

this is inspiring

back in the day there was mix tapes .

Steve is a legand... he should be in the hall of fame

Steve is a legand... he should be in the hall of fame

Of course most people disagree. He cares about music, not money. That's why he produced Nirvana and you're complaining about money.

I agree with him. Most record labels destroy music when they record, auto-tune, and tell artists what they want to be in there songs. Also, why don't they sell songs in formats other than mp3 or aac. They recorded everything uncompressed, mixed it uncompressed, thought man that's great uncompressed then cut it down from a 32bit uncompressed file to a mp3 file that's 16bit 256kbps. Where's the other half of the song that i paid for, and you spent all that time creating. & Yes, I pay for music by bands I want to support. I want to be able to hear the dance of the cymbals, the emotion of the singer, the fingers sliding down guitar strings, if i didn't I wouldn't buy the song I'd just listen to it on youtube.