Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven

Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven

by Fullofkittens 08/24/2004, 10:43pm PDT

Shredder wrote:

Fullofkittens wrote:

It seems to be affiliated with the old mp3.com, because when they started up they offered to put my old mp3.com page back up for free on garageband. Apparently they inherited all mp3.com's data.

That's the main reason I haven't looked into it, because mp3.com was such a huge assfest, so if these are the same guys then fuck them. I don't know the exact relationship, though.

Just out of curiousity, what didn't you like about MP3.com? I would occasionally search it to find some indie ska and didn't like the 128 sample structure they used, but I was never an artist there. Did they just pretty much attempt to use your (collective) works to sell shitty ads to people? Was it more than that?

There was a long laundry list of things. The main moment of betrayal, though, was when they had a nationwide mp3.com tour, which touted that local mp3.com artists would be playing the shows. As soon as we heard that, we figured we would definitely be involved in at least one show, since we had more plays than anybody in Michigan at that point. What ended up happening instead was that they went out and courted signed bands* in the area to set up a page and then play the show - none the existing artists (read: the early adopters that made the site worth visiting initially) ever played a show. In the really bumfuck states (Kansas, for instance) they dragged these new artists (most of whom never participated with the site at all) to half a dozen shows.

That was when we knew they weren't rock.

Later on, they really ended up fucking around with us and having really noisy popup ads on our page and, still later, really moronic shit like charging money to change the order that songs appear on the page. Plus they started courting Christina Aguilera and shit like that, meaning that the focus was off indie artists completely. They of course justified all this as the only way to stay in business. Guess that didn't work out too well for them.

Anyways, it started out good and we met a lot of really great people all over the country in the first two years, but then it went from greatness to crazy shittiness at light speed.

FoK

*Fuck you Solid Frog! Eat a dick, Fat Amy!