def leppard

The music industry has seen conflicts between artists and promoters ever since Franz Schubert’s sheet music distributor kept sending his drafts back with the note “more cowbell.” The spontaneity, free-spirited nature, and massive drug use that characterize some of the most commercially and artistically successful musicians are often in direct conflict with the practicality, business acumen, and horrible soulless greed of the biggest and best record labels, and as the music industry evolves and artists have more and more access to their own methods of distribution, the actions taken by artists have ...