MySpace man says their CD was "shitty"
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Shawn Gold, executive and co-founder of MySpace alongside everyone's friend Tom Anderson, has told an audience in New York that the site's first physical musical venture, a compilation record, wasn't exactly a success.
Gold told the Digital Music Forum that MySpace Volume 1 had only sold a maximum of 50,000 copies, a pretty poor return considering just how many people were made aware of it through the multi-million-person reaching MySpace.
Reacting to a suggestion that the record was over-hyped through the website, Gold said: "I don't know if it was that, or if it was just a shitty CD."
Oh Shawn, we know.
Another MySpace record is in the works, however, although it won't be a compilation. Gold also revealed that MySpace is to launch a satellite radio station in the US. Murdoch, he's already counting the crisp bills...
let the new movement continue
myspace tv anyone?
i think they should make their site work
properly before they start running around with boners holding compilation cds.
truth
I can't log in this morning, AT ALL.
seeing as it hasnt sold that well
they should be holding a ritual sacrificing of the emo. They line up one by one, to be suffocated in eyeliner and cut to ribbons with a Hawthorne Hights CD. We can all move forward then.
I think myspace
doing a compilation isn't in the spirit of how most people use it.
it's supposed to be a place for everyone. no one should be signed to or endorsed by myspace.
...
It's Emo-licious.
they could just have charts as to what has been most downloaded / streamed
but 1. maybe they already do, i don't know, 2. even this might be a bit much.
Except
A fair lot of bands have made their careers off the back of myspace pages. The shameless bending of the website to sell cds, surely is going against what the site is for aswell?
lol
who cares? i looked at the bands on that cd, they all sucked ne ways.
look
can't we just kill fallout boy and my chemical romance and be done with it?
Um, does anyone else think...
its funny that 'murdoch, he's already counting the crisp bills...' and then theres a massive advert for orange underneath it. Not that murdoch owns orange, but i found it quite funny.
ok...ill go and stand in a corner...sorry
It's on DVD
Through Epitaph.
Fact.
For some reason I didn't get sent a copy...
This statement...
...would be true if Weezer and Against Me! hadn't been on the CD.
Although 'Make Believe' was pretty gash.
I PISSED MYSELF
Don't open with it though dude...
Stupid question
Does Murdoch own MySpace then?
Yep
He bought it for a shite load of money
o
i waz board that waz krapp
He doesn't own it...
Murdoch owns something like a 48% stake in it. We needeth revolution like a wheelchair needs wheels.
Yes...
Hence why it did not sell.
I mean, AFI fans would have snapped them all up (being that they had a new song on it) but myspace kinda let them all (or forced) them to put the songs on their pages.
Stupid myspace.
This is
True, but It gives the site a boost of money... And tom... so he can be on myspace 24/7 via mobile phone.
hmm
Gash as is meh, or gash as in unbelieveably terrible?
ack.
While I was on the bandwagon to kill FOB recently... The bassline in Dance Dance is rather infectious... Damn them, they can be left be now.
MCR are good tho... If you'd asked me that having heard the first album only? Yes... They were balls, but then... nobody cared back then.
well... at least this isn't a fred durst repeat
i would take fall out boy any day over the bizkit front man
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