The Story of a Break-Up

Working as Management for Contempt Records has opened my eyes to intricate aspects of the industry I never took the time to learn.  Like many young people with minimal income, I too viewed music as a luxury I could not afford. The solution was easy. Download Limewire and get whatever song or album I wanted for free. In fact I will admit to you that over 80% of my ipod is probably filled with stolen goods.

Until I physically went through what it takes to produce an album:

• rehearsal time
• studio time
• producers
• engineers
• creating album art
• mastering the album
• duplication
• additional merchandise
• videos
• photo shoots
• promotion

Just a simplified list of the things that go on to create one artist's album. All of which cost money. Money that the label or artists doesn't get to see until everything that had been paid for is recuperated. 

I never thought that organizing the above list was or could ever be in the control of just a couple people. Working with Contempt Records I have been put with a small group of people that really have a passion and drive for music that I feel is becoming rare. In an industry that Rolling Stone Magazine has liked to portray as in a "free-fall" it is even harder to stay driven. 

I have gained a greater appreciation for music then i had before starting to work for Contempt, and through that experience, I have turned my back to what once was a very strong love affair with Limewire.