From: millia@athena.cs.uga.edu (David W. Millians)
Subject: Re: New Negativland News
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:07:49 GMT

>

>In article <C14qJx.AuA@athena.cs.uga.edu> houk@athena.cs.uga.edu (Newfoundland Puppy) writes:
>
>>American. If SST fulfills their obligations to their bands (current and
>>former) by paying them the royalties that they've earn - yeah, we'll
>>play their records again. But it'd be pretty hypocritical for our
>>station to say "yeah, we support independent, struggling bands" if
>>we're shoveling money into the hands of rip-off artists like Greg Ginn
>>or Rick Rubin.
>I'm not familiar with the royalties thing, I thought this was about the
>Negativland lawsuit.  If you want to boycott every label that's ripped off
>their artists, you might as well switch to an all-news format.  And if you're 
>gonna boycott anybody over the Negativland thing, I think Island Records 
>would be a good place to start.


Island records does not purport itself to be anything other than a large
record company. Mr. Ginn does. I think I define corporate rock beginning
when I see SLAPP suits...

>>And what, pray tell, are the more difficult alternatives?
>Have you talked to Greg Ginn about this?  How about interviewing him about
>it, either taped or better, live on the air.  Let the listeners have at him,
>and let him defend himself.

I like  this idea. 

>>Our listeners don't know about it - primarily because of two reasons. First,
>>WUOG doesn't have anyone sending out press releases, which sucks, and I'm
>>trying to start up a good system for doing so. 
>
>What do your listeners do: read press releases, or listen to your station?
>Wouldn't take any time at all to create a two-minute info-mercial explaining
>the policy and your reasons for it, put it on a cart, and wa-la!  Instant
>news, instant controversy, the phones will be ringing off the hook, and you've
>done something positive.

This listener does, and supports it. Go for the cart, Joshua.

>>I'm not trying to hide
>>anything - really! Second - there hasn't been anything on either of these
>>two labels in the past few months that we would have had in rotation
>>anyways - so it hasn't actually affected our rotation yet. 
>Right.  I currently boycott Coors and Domino's the same way...of course, I
>don't have any desire to buy Coors or Domino's anyway, so it's easy.  What
>about all the piles of SST records you already have in your stacks?  Pulled
>them from the library, so they can't be played?  Now *that* would make a 
>statement...all that old Black Flag and Descendents and Minutemen and Sonic
>Youth just *gone*.
>the way it was meant to be used...as a provider of information, not a 

I think this is a TREMENDOUS idea.  You know, the point you miss is that the
CONTENT of the medium is not being censored; it's the fact of who produces
it. It's that simple. It's just a boycott. This is like specialist news-
papers , i.e., black-gay-woman owned, rejecting ads by companies who practice
policies unfriendly to them. Greg Ginn's SLAPP suits have infringed on the
rights of too many artists, and have endangered their art. Stop Ginn now.
-- 
David W. Millians. millia@athena.cs.uga.edu or @moe.coe.uga.edu
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