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Originally Posted by Glice
14) This notion ONLY APPLIES TO BANDS ESTABLISHED IN THE OBJECT-EXCHANGE ERA OF PLENTY. Smaller bands are fucked because, not only can they make no money out of records, they can't hope to perform overseas until they establish and audience. Establishing that audience is harder in an era of increased availability of a wider range of recorded music; measuring that audience is impossible when there's no standard by which to measure the appreciation of the music.
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the 'object-exchange era of plenty' never existed abroad. it wasn't legally possible to get albini related releases in eastern-europe in the 1980s and wasn't financially possible in the 90s when an import cd(and the stores didn't stock albini shit) cost a couple days salary(as opposed to an hours wage in usa)
now the initiative of booking a few gigs will likely get you a bigger crowd than you would see in yr own country whether or not
anybody listened to you two weeks prior
you're talking out yr ass here(an albiniesque quality) people were meeting up in alleys and paying crazy amounts to bootleggers for 10th generation dubs of the most mainstream american music when big black was releasing, he came out in the era where you would have to change the whole world to get an audience in eastern europe, now he just has to book a show and people will use the computer to decide whether they like him or not and he'll get paid for the gig and probably sell up to five cds, not to mention posters up everywhere that may stay up for 8 years and keep the name alive till the next gig.
i literally know of an independent american band that can barely tour the pacific northwest, gets 50 people in england or france but that can draw 700-1000 people 3 nights in a row headlining belgrade-sofia-istanbul
again, NOTHING HAS GOTTEN HARDER IN THE SITUATION ALBINI DESCRIBES, IT HAS ACTUALLY GONE FROM IMPOSSIBLE TO EASY WITHIN ALBINI'S CAREER AND HE KNOWS IT
you're a hipster from a country where people are too cool for bands. in soviet russia band is too cool for you