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Posted in industry | music on December 31, 2008
Warner/Roadrunner pulls videos, Amanda Palmer pissed

if you hadn't noticed, all of the dresden dolls and amanda palmer official videos have been taken off youtube.Amanda Palmer plays Bowery Ballroom at 2:00 AM tonight (thx joly).yes, folks...girl anachronism, coin-operated boy, shores of california, almost everything from who killed amanda palmer....pretty much the whole deal.
all gone. go look for yourself.
and you ask...wtf?basically:
"Unable to reach new licensing terms, the Warner Music Group has demanded that thousands of its videos be removed from YouTube, which is owned by Google. Warner Music's videos, the source of a billion views on YouTube, gradually began disappearing from the site on Saturday, although many remained online Sunday evening."in other words, roadrunner is a subsidiary of warner and i'm stuck in hell with madonna and the other poor bastards, because warner wants more money. even worse, warner has almost no bargaining power...they're not even in the top ten of labels who have huge artists with material streaming on youtube. they're just starving for cash right now and they're doing anything they can think of to come up with cash. it's abSURD. they are looking for money in a totally backwards way.
money that, i should point out, i would NEVER see as an artist. if they got their way and youtube decided to give them a larger revenue share of the videos, it;s very unlikely it would ever make it's way into the artists' bank accounts.
damn, man. this shit is fucked UP.
i'll obviously let you know what happens, but i'm slowly planning some sort of tribute-a-thon of dolls and amanda videos in lieu of our actual clips.
maybe a "everybody re-enact your favorite dolls video in one take on a shitty camera, with hand puppets, for under $5" contest. maybe it will yield a masterpiece.
i loved my videos.
now they are gone.
why is life so hard?
did i mention that being on a major label is starting to seem like.....not such a grand idea?
meanwhile.
i hate the cold. elaine sent me a nice vest, with a hood.
maybe i won't take it off until my videos are back up, in protest.
shovel shovel shovel shovel shovel shovel shovel shovel
x
afp...
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Posted on December 31, 2008 12:16 PM
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complaining about being on a major is so passe.
Posted by Anonymous | December 31, 2008 12:27 PM
'did i mention that being on a major label is starting to seem like.....not such a grand idea?'
... in other news, the Titanic has sunk, Dewey defeats Truman and JFK has been shot. Jesus H. Christ, woman! Major label artists = PWNED
Posted by greg | December 31, 2008 1:04 PM
She's so annoying, whiny and full of faux angst and herself.
Posted by Anonymous | December 31, 2008 1:19 PM
Dewey only defeated Truman on newspaper headlines, and that one episode of sliders.
Posted by Anonymous | December 31, 2008 1:20 PM
if you were smart mizz palmer, you wouldnt have signed with a major label in the first place. so - qui your bitching. who cares about your bullshit, obviously Warner doesnt. you're a small fish in a big murkey major label scum pond.
Posted by TT Boy | December 31, 2008 1:20 PM
Sounds like someone didnt read their "Major Label" contract.
Posted by Anon | December 31, 2008 1:24 PM
I think her "eyebrows" may be partially to blame for all this.
Posted by Rajah of Rehab | December 31, 2008 1:35 PM
Who is this and why should I care?
Posted by Jay | December 31, 2008 3:46 PM
"Who is this and why should I care?"
If you don't know who Amanda Palmer is then you're a dorkus
Posted by Anonymous | December 31, 2008 3:50 PM
Jay,
She's some idiot on a major label who wishes she hadn't sold out and still had some say over her career.
Glad to help, and Happy New Year!
Posted by Anonymous | December 31, 2008 5:27 PM
"did i mention that being on a major label is starting to seem like.....not such a grand idea?"
it's funny 'cause it's ten years ago.
Posted by Anonymous | January 1, 2009 8:49 AM
Well come to the wonderful world of major labels wench
Posted by Anonymous | January 1, 2009 1:43 PM
She signed with RoadRunner many years back and they were since bought up by Warner, so it wasn't really her decision to be on a major label.
http://www.punknews.org/article/21378 : "Warner has purchased Roadrunner Records for $73.5 million"
Posted by anon | January 1, 2009 1:43 PM
I saw her trying to get into Bowery at 12:30am last night as we were leaving the Patti Smith show. They were giving her a tough time trying to get her gear in. I drunkenly said 'Have a great show tomorrow!' and she said 'It's tonight!' and I said 'Well, that's just a dumb time to be scheduled.' She is, however, very attractive in person. Too bad she's on a major label - now she has cooties.
Posted by greg | January 1, 2009 1:45 PM
being on a major label def hurts her indie cred.
that being said, show was great. She played for two whole hours from 2:30 to 5:30. Brian Viglione was there and the closing song was her version of Leonard Cohen's "Halleluja".
Posted by Anonymous | January 2, 2009 3:17 AM
what was she thinking going to a major label? like there was really no need. couldn't she try for an indie major? then atleast she wouldn't have to deal with the warner shitstorm that's passing through these next couple months. those bastards are always in court.
Posted by Anonymous | January 2, 2009 7:45 AM
it was 3:30 to 5:30
Posted by Anonymous | January 2, 2009 9:10 AM
damn. that's a shame.
either way. amanda, i masturbate to your photos online as often as possible. you're one beautiful woman.
sincerely,
some guy you will never meet that jerks it to you
xx
Posted by Anonymous | January 2, 2009 9:33 AM
Why would you bother posting shitty comments. Get fucked, if you don't have anything nice to say then don't bother. Like is there not anything better you could be doing with your life.
Dick heads.
Posted by Claire | January 5, 2009 7:34 PM
Bottomline is Amanda Palmer is mediocre. She can’t sing, can’t play and writes crap songs. Palmer is boring and predictable… the minute she loses her audience’s attention, off come her clothes and she calls it “art.” When her record company doesn’t want to promote her awful record, she whines and claims they think she’s “fat.” Now she’s jumped on the Gaiman train, which really makes me think she is a crazy workaholic Scientologist, spending every waking minute publicizing her dopey record. The book for Who Killed Amanda Palmer is a vanity project. There is no publisher attached— no one would touch it. That’s how Gaiman started his book career, self publishing and using his Scientology connections to get ahead. The sooner her 15 minutes are up, the better.
Posted by bored with Palmer | August 10, 2009 5:28 PM