"Money Is Put Ahead Of Creativity"

This is an older article, but I thought the message rings very true. Thanks Lutz.

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien warns of money pressure

His band, who are currently in the studio, were signed to EMI until 2003. They released their last album In Rainbows via their own website as well as striking a one-off deal with independent label XL.

By Ian Youngs Music reporter, BBC News O’Brien is a leading member of the Featured Artists’ Coalition, a lobby group for artists’ rights, which has often been at odds with the major record labels. O’Brien said the climate had changed in the last 10 years and “certainly it’s changed since we were signed” in 1991.

O’Brien said money men had replaced creative people at record labels

The music industry is suffering because financial pressures mean money is being put ahead of creativity, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has warned.

“I sense, and many artists sense, that it’s become dominated by money, and the need to make more money,” he said.

“And I think the problem with that is that the creativity’s gone out of the industry, the fun.”

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