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Self-financed albums
Are these the ultimate non-sellout albums? If so, are they any better than record company financed albums? What are the best self-financed albums of all time? The only one I can think of right now is the Jimmy Eat World self-titled album in 2001. That thing sucked, though.
__________________My feeling is that anybody who takes record company money to record is selling out to a degree, but that fact doesn't bother me in the least. To me, money matters alot of the time when trying to record great music. |
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maynard said it best:
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Wasn't the White Stripes' Elephant self-financed?
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duran duran's astronaut was self-financed. not my favourite album of theirs, but it's really good.
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I'm not sure about who financed the recording and production of Led Zep II, so I couldn't really say they sold out. The music, to me stuck to the same excellent standard so I really couldn't say they sold out or not if Atlantic Records had financed the record. I'm not really sure if that answers your question. |
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I believe that David Gray's White Ladder was self financed, I assume that most on here won't be fans but I think that it's gorgeous and it did sell well.
In my opinion there does seem to be a state of emotion on that album that isn't quite there on his other stuff, but I don't know whether that's what you are driving at. |
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Good album!
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Jerry Cantrell " Degradation Trip"
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Wasn't Toad The Wet Sprocket's first album (Bread & Circus) self financed? As I recall it was quite good also.
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darkbuster, both albums. not touching the sell-out thing, self-financed albums are a royal pain in the ass to get ahold of at time or release and until the band gets financed/signed because pretty much the only place to get them is when you go see the band at a show. little to no distribution.
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The Police were big into putting their own money into making their records so that they wouldn't be forever in debt to their record company
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