Indies & MySpace: Like Unfulfilling Sex

The independent label community has been slamming MySpace Music for not offering them an equity share like the major labels have.  But about a week ago, I noticed that some of the loudest critics are still updating their MySpace pages and wrote about it.

A reader called me on it using a this analogy:

"i've had sex with girls i didn't like. it's not that wrong to update your myspace and still be unhappy with the operation. it may seem like a passive aggressive approach, but sometimes people keep a profile active in a service to continue promoting their band...regardless of how self serving the platform has become. it's hard to deny the strong presence of myspace....it reminds me of ex-girlfriends i had that were so hot i couldn't stop sleeping with them even after i broke up with them because they were so scandalous. it was hard to leave"

That's a great analogy. But the complaing labels that are continuing to have sex with their ex-girlfriend (MySpace) are screwing themselves out of the best part - the orgasm ($$$'s) - by not signing the deal that MySpace is offering them.

I can't convince myself that's smart... - Bruce Houghton