Musicrooms.net: Manic Street Preachers Not Sure Of Free Music

Manic Street Preachers Not Sure Of Free Music
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CMU on 10 December, 2007
 
Wire told the Daily Star: "Fair play to Radiohead for doing something different.
It's certainly great for publicity but I think it kind of demeans music. Music
used to be a market, now it's all gone digital. It's worrying and it seems to be
the way of the world at the moment. Sales are doing well everywhere else. Cinema
is doing well, video games are doing well but music isn't. The free download
phenomenon is ruining the industry".
That said, the Manics may well follow Radiohead's lead in another domain - not
re-signing to a major record company, and maintaining more control over their
own future releases. Talking about what they may do when their current contract
with SonyBMG expires, drummer Sean Moore said: "We made more money with live
shows this year than in the last seven of releasing records. We have one more
album with Sony, and are coming to the end of our publishing and merchandising
deals. We want to do records ourselves. Labels are scared to move forward, we're
not".