The Black Dahlia Murder vokalisti kommentoi albumeiden ostamista
Yhdysvaltalaisen melodista death metallia soittavan The Black Dahlia Murderin vokalisti Trevor Strnad on postittanut yhtyeen Facebook -sivuille viestin, jossa mies kommentoi sitä faktaa, että yhtyeellä on noin miljoona fania Facebookissa mutta vain noin ehkä 2% näistä ihmisistä on niitä, jotka todella ostavat yhtyeen albumeita. Yhtye julkaisee uuden ”Everblack” nimeä kantavan albuminsa kesäkuun 11. päivä Metal Blade Recordsin kautta. Lue lisää nähdäksesi Trevorin viesti kokonaisuudessaan.
“HOW IT IS: We have almost 1,000,000 likes on here. Will we sell 1,000,000 copies of Everblack? Fuck no! The reality is that 98% of you ‘fans’ are going to be content to steal the album and in turn we get nothing… a laughable fragment of the ‘likers’ will actually be cool and pick it up.
It’s not about the money, the reality is that we get chump change for CD (and digital) sales BUT WE NEED TO SELL THEM TO EXIST! If there are no record sales the music industry will stomp us out like a bug and it’ll be completely over… the sales show them ‘how relevant’ we are.
If you don’t buy the albums they’ll determine that there is no demand for TBDM, and there won’t be any more awesome concerts, tours, dvds nor new music. Sure we understand you may really love our tunes, but if you haven’t paid for them, it’s a total loss to us… all the love in the world isn’t going to mean shit in the end. We need your support and every two years I am going to ask the same thing of you and make the same goddamn argument.
Think of it like a vote… If you’d like to see us continue our reign of terror over the metal world, you’ll pick up a copy of “Everblack”. It’s as simple as that. – Trevor on behalf of The Black Dahlia Murder“