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by No Pocky For Titties 02/25/2003, 9:41am PST

...in that you can't really argue with her because she can be well-read and make good points more quickly than you can say, "Wait, aren't you like, a dumbass? Maybe that's just me. No, it's you. But I still can't argue with you."

Courtney Love is a hypocrite, sure, because what she wants is fame AND fortune ~~and a little smack to get her through the bad days~~ , and she wants to use that major label machinery to get what she wants and still destroy it. Her original sound was a LOT punkier, edgier, and lo fi than she started trying for after she met Kurt. If it was me, and I don't know, my husband committed suicide because of the major label rock experience, maybe I'd, I don't know, put it down.

It's true that White Stripes spent $4,000 on White Blood Cells, and bully for those niggers. I think Jack White is a genius. But you must recognize that it's a crappy sounding album. Their particular gift is to turn crappy sound into a strength. Where the money goes for those million-dollar records is, I suspect, the same place that it goes for shitty major-label movies. The suits hand you $800,000 dollars and say, "For this we want you to use this $10,000/day studio, and we'll pay Butch Vig $400,000" and you say "Wait! I think we can do it much less" "We have standards, here, mister. If your album doesn't sound radio-ready, you're going to owe us that 8 hundy, but we won't show the record to anybody. Did I mention that you can't record for anybody else?" So, you make the album, for $700k, and then the label wants changes, and now you're overbudget. Then SPIN gives you two stars, and you only sell a couple thousand records. Say Hello to Verve Pipe when you guys are closing the Lansing McDonalds.

I've only read part of that MM article (I'll get to it later), but I already suspect that Mixerman is Steve Albini, having read his articles before.