Winnie Jow, Independent Music Activist informed me of these cute little bastard fairies on our last phone conversation as she is the newest member of the effort to impliment the new Boycott RIAA site. As our "campaign manager" her goal is to help BRIAA have some "real life events" within the cities she lives / frequents. Well, in her neck of the woods (The Los Angeles Area) resides an Independent Band called, The Bastard Fairies.

Whether your into Love Songs or happen to have a fetish for Dolls and Guns, it should come as no Secret that the RIAA thinks We're All Going To Hell if we don't praise them with an ode to their whore market.

Like Ten Little Indians running around telling A Venemous Tale about those evil Industry Boys Next Door -- Boycott RIAA would like to give you a peice of the Apple Pie by telling you about the newest Independent Group that has sided with us against the Habitual Inmates of the RIAA.

Both sexy and serious -- this group is showing the world that if you've got what it takes -- you don't have to sell your souls to the RIAA Devils that victimize children and old grandmothers! We encourage you to check them out!

That's right Dave! Bastard Fairies are tearing it up coast to coast! Be sure to check out their blogs this band is on the ball! Their videos on YouTube are getting good ratings and by teaming up with Slam Poet Jaime Kilstein they sure are building a scene! WINJOW

From their website:

"This album is free for all to download, and we just ask one simple thing. Please make copies for all your friends and ask them to do the same, and so on and so forth. You are our publicity, our promotion, our distribution and our friends."

"YouTube are getting good ratings and by teaming up with Slam Poet Jaime Kilstein they are are building a scene! WINJOW"

YouTube is in bed with the RIAA. You might wish to read quite a few articles on that which we have here for the details information. Sure, I could post a practical book of a reply on all of this but seeing as this info should be easily locatable within our news archive i'm sure you will have no difficulties finding it. I'd suggest you read through it. YouTube has sold their souls to the devil. I'm sure Shmoo will also be comenting on this as well once he sees it. You can likely expect a very lengthy rant from him. lol

"This album is free for all to download, and we just ask one simple thing. Please make copies for all your friends and ask them to do the same, and so on and so forth. You are our publicity, our promotion, our distribution and our friends."

Now is only rhe RIAA looked at things this way!

A side note -- any Bastard Fairies reading all this may feel free to create an account (if you don't already have one) and inject your feedback as well. I mean, it's an article about you so you of course have full rights to speak your minds about it

Because I haven't got a lot of time to write anything lengthy tonight, I will just say:

YouTube does not deserve to last much longer unless they implement a system that rewards the independent video creators (and music artists) on par with the bribe of shared ad-revenue that YouTube and now owning Google currently pay to the RIAA labels, CBS, etc.

Why should the RIAA get a share of YouTube profits when the indie vid creators who built-up YouTube's popularity do not?

Until YouTube plays fair, I urge bands to check out other vid sharing site's like Revver instead (who SHARE the money with the actual artist.)

A parallel screw-over of indie artists occured several years ago with the now defunct Mp3.com (anyone remember?)

Yeah. Check out iLike.com, Shmoo.

I'll bet you have a page there. I do.

I did a week or 2 ago. All I could find was a clone of my garageband.com page which I'm not yet TOO worried about since it deeplinks ...and thus, if a tune of mine is downloaded, it actually is FROM my garageband page.

I didn't yet find any of my Mp3.com stuff which was supposed to be kept out of the hands of Vivendi (Universal)

Is your Mp3.com stuff still alive at iLike.com when it shouldn't be? (If it is, then I bet it's really at CNet or whomever bought those stolen accounts from Vivendi/Universal.)

But I'll investigate more when I get home in a couple days. (Out of town again at the day-job. Can't do much from here right now. Most music sites are blocked on this 'puter, even DMusic.)

Oh, and getting back on topic...

Hi WinJow! Welcome aboard!

I hope we can eventually welcome The Bastard Fairies on board, too! They might also wanna concider making a DMusic Account. Yeah, I know. They've got their stuff hosted of their own accords. But -- it doesn't hurt to be searchable on DMusic, either!

YEAH
You know? I use AIM & Myspace... so in a way I have inadvertently sold my soul to the devil... AOL & FOX? Shiz... I'm not going to crap out. I'm going to start a Dmusic account. But in the meantime.... where does one go to get away from the infiltrating corporate bullcrap? And further... if we succeed and become a bigger entity then at some point WE have to incorporate and so begins the vicious cycle again.
WINJOW

Winnie -- don't confuse AIM the "network" and AIM "the software". I use the AIM Network, and the ICQ Network and the Yahoo Network. But I don't use their POS Softwares. I use something called GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) which runs on both Wincrap and Linux -- but regardless of Operating System Gaim is pretty sweet. No ads. No spyware. All the problems removed. Lots of awesome features! Supports multipul sign-ins for more than one s/n at a time (no more annoying "linked screen name" hassles) and also simultaneously supports icq, yahoo and a wide variety of other things. I'd suggest concidering it.

Myspace is a nessesary evil, but I don't make it my focus (which is why there isn't too much on my profile there). Myspace is a good service they just hired monkeys instead of coders. All of the front end bells and whistles just make it too bloated. It's overkill. Beyond that, they're ok. It's YouTube thats sold their souls to the Devil.

If BRIAA ever becomes Incorporated that does NOT mean it has to become commercial. Besides -- INC is a PITA. I'd prefer LLC, personally.

LLC, INC, etc is nothing more than a monetary and / or social / economical status. Its what you DO with it that maters. DMusic is LLC (Limited Liability Corporation) and they haven't sold their souls or whore'd out to the main stream.

Oh and besides -- as long as I'm running this place -- I'm too much of a stuborn son of a bitch to ever whore out. I hate corporate mother fuckers like the RIAA and if you haven't noticed -- I've got a very defined code of ethics that i've always had for all of my life.

WINJOW's point, and it IS very valid, seems to be about musicians. The independents' problem is that no one represents them. No one speaks for us when the U.S. Copyright Office holds hearings on the effects of the DMCA. No one raises our concerns at Senate committee hearings.

As soon as someone DOES begin to represent the rest of us, the countdown begins on it becoming part of the problem.

The present determines the future. If we the people of BRIAA end up being the ones who "win the battle" and thus becoming the ones that instate whatever the new structure is to become -- whether or not that new structure succeeds with flying colors or becomes yet another new monster by a different name all depends on whether or not our choices in the here and now are WISE ones. Alot of people when making choices don't think of the long term consiquences. It "seemed like a good idea at the time" but later they say to themselves "omg i wish i wouldn't have done that". Proceeding with caution, thinking things through and making informed descisions as opposed to "snap descisions" will be what saves us. So I wish all of us the best of luck in ENDING the problem -- as opposed to creating a brand new one.