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Old 03-13-2004, 06:36 AM   #1
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CANNIBAL CORPSE singer George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher recently spoke to MetalReview.com about the group's decision to include audio "beeps" on the promotional copies of their new CD, "The Wretched Spawn", distributed to press and other media personnel ahead of the album's release. "The reason we did that is our worst nightmare came true," Fisher said. "Someone got a copy of the album with the beeps on it and immediately put it out on the Internet. And it got us thinking that we were gonna start screwing people out of promotional copies and we're just gonna give them one song and that's it. That’s not the way to do it, but now it's out there and every kid has it. Yes it's got the beeps but that's why they have to be there because people can't be trusted. If people could just get the album, review it and keep it and not do anything stupid with it until the album comes out. If we sell less records, I mean we're not doing it for the money, I think that's pretty obvious. But we don't have to work, we don't have jobs, this is our job if you will. So we make enough money to support ourselves from touring and merchandise. Now take a bunch of that money away. Now I can't go on tour this month because I've gotta work. I've got a house with my wife and a mortgage and all this piracy screws me, and that's coming from a band that's actually making it, not a band that's trying to. And these people don't get it, thinking we're rock stars. **** you, rock star my ass. I don't make that much money, and besides should you not make as much money as you possibly can if you work hard? But I'm not talking about everybody, just a few out there who get the album early then don't buy it. It's like at shows if some dickhead throws something at me and it busts open my eye, then the whole show is ruined because of one asshole. That's why those beeps had to be on there and in the end it's better. People made a big deal about this Napster business and METALLICA's one statement was, '30,000 albums might not mean anything to us, but there are some bands that it does.' And I respect them for that, I don't respect them for a lot of things lately, but I do respect them for that. 30,000 copies for us is a big deal. Labels don't give a **** about any of that stuff. They might realize that it happens, but the bottom line is [selling] it. Unfortunately that's the bottom line in this business, and if we stop selling, then it becomes harder and harder for Metal Blade to help us put out albums. Why put out more albums if the albums lose money?"

Credit: blabbermouth.net

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What the ****. You know what? Fisher can go **** himself. Cannibal Corpse are the most well-known death metal band there is to date, as sad as it is to say. They suck a huge dong IMO and somehow they get ****ing huge as a band. They have a very large fanbase, and without that fanbase they'd just be another death metal reject, another group of assholes that sound like the Cookie Monster. Then he has the nerve to talk shit about people who download the music. Before there were MP3 downloads, people were getting into Cannibal Corpse via bootlegs and dubbings from their friends. Nobody saw a CC video or heard them on the radio and said, "shit, I'm gonna buy their album" - they discovered them through the metal community, which is strongly founded on sharing music. Without MP3 downloading, metal would be NOTHING like it is right now. Bands like Bodom would never have gotten on a North American tour, nor would they have this much popularity.

And I don't know what the hell this guy is complaining about. Cannibal Corpse releases an album and shitloads of mindless metalheads will go out and purchase it. Their shows sell out in almost every town. Twenty bucks a pop, I'm sure they are doing fine. I ****ing hate how he contradicts himself as well, "oh it isn't about the money, but I gots bills to pay." Go **** yourself. Your music sucks and you're lucky to have any fans at all.

I'm not even going to start on the second half of his ridiculous diatribe where he talks hella shit about other stuff.
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Old 03-13-2004, 07:10 AM   #2
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That's pretty gay. Though if you take them for what they are (and they never claim to be anything but) which is a straight ahead death metal band, there ain't many as consistent.

Still, reeks of Ulrichness
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Old 03-13-2004, 11:56 AM   #3
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Audio beeps are a great idea, though. The new The Crown album had beeps in the promo which pissed off a lot of downloaders.
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Old 03-13-2004, 03:28 PM   #4
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Audio beeps are a great idea, though. The new The Crown album had beeps in the promo which pissed off a lot of downloaders.
Great idea...

Because the last thing you want reviewers to do is listen to a copy of a song that actually sound slike the song.
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Old 03-13-2004, 03:56 PM   #5
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Great idea...

Because the last thing you want reviewers to do is listen to a copy of a song that actually sound slike the song.
Better than the old "You are listening to the new...." messages that some labels (like Roadrunner) add to their promos.
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Old 03-13-2004, 04:39 PM   #6
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Better than the old "You are listening to the new...." messages that some labels (like Roadrunner) add to their promos.
I just thinkit's totally stupid.

If you're worried about copying, there are other ways to go that won't fuck with the music itself. As a (sometimeS) music critic, I can tell you how much this shit pisses me off.

And I can also guarantee ya that I've never put up a fucking advanced/promo copy online...But that's beside the point.

This'll definitely improve their sales...
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I think someone actually did that with their last album... might have been the last Deftones one.
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Seriously tho' putting beeps in Cannbal Corpse songs can't make them sound any shittier than they do without them.

So it goes RARRRRRRRRRR RARRRRRRRRRRRR BEEEEEEEEEP instead of RARRRRRRRRRR RARRRRRRR RARRRRRRRR.
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Seriously tho' putting beeps in Cannbal Corpse songs can't make them sound any shittier than they do without them.

So it goes RARRRRRRRRRR RARRRRRRRRRRRR BEEEEEEEEEP instead of RARRRRRRRRRR RARRRRRRR RARRRRRRRR.
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Seriously tho' putting beeps in Cannbal Corpse songs can't make them sound any shittier than they do without them.

So it goes RARRRRRRRRRR RARRRRRRRRRRRR BEEEEEEEEEP instead of RARRRRRRRRRR RARRRRRRR RARRRRRRRR.
LMFAO
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