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:	post by Cecchini at 2006-07-03 11:33:37

whisky said:

Yer just pissed off cause your a disaffected shit who only likes music that would NEVER be selected to play for waaf shit birds. Stay in yer basment and jam out to Meligha rage and judge the world on what very little you know. Even Slayer pays for the civic centers it plays at. Money is recouped through merch...ya know that shirt your probably wearing right now! Its a Buisness and just cause you dont have the balls to put money were yer mouth is dont fuckin rag on those bands who would rather spend money to promote and forgoe things like a new car or another trendy tough guy tatto! well I must be getting back to the WAAF web site as I am missed buy the other Cock Rockers, as you will never be

Don't you get what this show is REALLY about?! If there was something good that comes out of it for bands shitloads more would jump on it, but the truth is 99% of the time your gonan show up, play, go home being no bigger than you were the night before.

Who does this show benefit?!

THE PROMOTER!

You agree to a contract with them where you sell X amount of dollars, that X amount covers nearly all the costs of the promoters typically, so if nobody shows up they still get their cash! Thats why they do it, you could sit there and play to a big empty field with just the other bands watching and it wouldn't matter because the promoter got his money to pay for the bands, security, venue etc... The only difference is he took it out of your ass instead of you pissing hours of your life away selling overpriced tickets to whoever will buy them. Most of these fests have agreements with bands where if you don't cough up the cash they can take you to court to get the rest of it... it's blatant assrape.

The worst about this show is how the promoters act under the guise that they are trying to help the local bands when in fact they are doing SHIT for them. They are using the local acts as a safety net to cover their ass if the show goes for broke.

So before you knock people on this board for putting down this pay to play bullshit show, look at yourself first and realise that what your doing is just supporting a bullshit policy that is structured to more cripple local bands than help them.

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