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Originally Posted by lowlife
People always act like bands that have alot of releases are pulling a fast one on their fans and swimming in all this cash. Most releases by Wolf Eyes aside from the vinyls and cds are released by tiny noise labels with small runs where the band gets paid in copies to sell on tour where the purpose is documentation, like how jazz musicians and other improv musicians get documented. Then once a year or so they put out an 'album' of 'songs' that are the ones we all know (burned mind, dead hills, etc.) I'm sure most of the people on this board would cream for a hundred Sonic Youth releases a year. Throbbing Gristle did the same thing, so have alot of other bands. 1)whats the big fucking deal, 2)who cares, 3)it is really fucking dorky to get offended by this kind of stuff because no one even knows what the hell it is! You don't have to buy the tapes for fucks sake.
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i don't think when someone releases every single rehearsal tape they record to be ripping off people in the economical sort of way (unless you're talking about people selling these a few years after on ebay for substantial sums of money) , and it's not really a big deal, so to speak. but it gets annoying and it doesn't speak well of quality control.
an example that surfaced lately is kenji siratori, who contacted tons of noise labels to release his stuff and tons of noise artists to collaborate with. he has like 500 releases so far and there's people who absolutely hate him because they heard a bad release by him while others think he is great. had he gone for quality over quantity, perhaps more people would check out the same release and decide instead of making their mind over a great or crappy thing, depending on what they heard.
most of wolf eyes' shit (in their case) comes out in their own labels, so their label and artist copies are the same. and i think the comparisons to jazz players and tg are unfounded since they did a fair bit of improvisation which renders each recording unique whether most of wolf eyes is the same thing with little variation.
personally, the fewer the sy releases the better; look at thurston's solo output, it can be pretty awesome or pretty awful because of the volume of releases.
and i agree, you don't have to buy squat, although it gets annoying trying to track down a good release over dozens of mediocre ones.