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# Indies & MySpace: Like Unfulfilling Sex
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/indies-myspace/
- Published: 2008-10-14T09:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2008-10-14T09:30:00.000Z
- Description: 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. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/10/indies-myspace.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

The independent label community has been **[slamming](More Indies Speak Out Against MySpace) 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**

[![No_sex](https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize/www.hypebot.com/hypebot/images/2008/10/11/no_sex.jpeg "No_sex")](https://www.hypebot.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/11/no%5Fsex.jpeg)

  
updating their MySpace pages and [wrote about it](Indies Slam MySpace But Keep Their Pages Updated).

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*](https://www.hypebot.com/about.html)**