Oh, if only it was true.

Actually he went up in my estimation recently. He spent a whole 5 minutes of a tv interview ranting and raving about how the record industry reams young acts and leaves them penniless and he talked about their dirty tricks with music & royalty rights. He has also recorded he lastest 'offering' off his own back, which seems to be the way forward. According to Popbitch this week, Hanson (remember them, MmmBop etc) are back in the American charts with an album the recorded & promoted with their own cash. This means that they get 5-6 times what they would normally get on each record sale.

i'm not exactly proud that i know this, but apparently hansons are a rich family, like, the kind of rich that warps minds and stuff (hence that awful noise) so they can afford to give tower records a generous discount on the price of x thousand cd's for optimal sales wall space etc,...