Jan. 26, 2012 at 1:36pm with 26 notes
the new D.I.Y.indie rock is deadlinkscomedy
This hilarious Time.com article about a broke "indie" band that's spent $100k

Best parts: an “indie” band going after airplay on “major radio stations”; getting “good reviews” from the “indie press,” the indie press being the Deli; the crushing revelation that going backstage doesn’t mean champagne and caviar; taking voice lessons (do that shit on YouTube, guys); $25,000 in musical instruments, or more than any Sub Pop band spends recording entire albums; “we pay a guy to send email blasts” — so, uh, a publicist? Maybe this is why he hasn’t emailed my “hip blog”; this sentence: “Abner (still in school) could easily make $10 an hour working at a bar on weekends”…

  1. themiracals said: is this real? are these kids fucking serious?
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  3. thegentlewind said: They just sound like anyother indie band out there, nothing new.
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  6. morerobots said: This is one of the most utterly ridiculous and self indulgent articles I’ve read
  7. yvynyl said: Ridic.
  8. barelyeducated said: The funniest part is that like $70,000 of their expenses are varieties of “Stuff our rich parents bought us that countless successful musicians have gotten started without, but we wanted.” You can’t complain about the cost of stuff you didn’t buy!
  9. meltedspinningplastic said: Marc Masters tweeted a link to this story this morning. Absolutely ridiculous. $30,000 for voice lessons. Who the hell do these guys aspire to be anyway, Celine Dion? Just absurd … I’m gonna go listen to Attack on Memory again, now.
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