god damn... it's hard to make a point, when you fuck up... so sorry all about the repeats "One likes to believe in the freedom of music, but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatters the illusion of integrety" i belive that this can be another message added to the whole "modest mouse, no longer on a indie label... well fuck it, they're now sell-outs"... and along this glittering prizes bullshit... you know what, i don't think that modest mouse really comprimised anything... granted the record sounds different, but they had a larger budget to do alot more than what up would have provided them with. they're still drving the vansion on tour, they're still wearing the same pants like 4 or 5 days in a row... i have somewhere, on cd (by the way, thank you so much zach), a whole interview with issac brock... the man is as nice as they come, which i think shows that he is unphased by the millions upon millions of dollars, gold dibloons and rubies that he and the rest of the boys have received from epic... he also stated that he wants to stay as far away from epic as he can, because all he wanted was their production money and nothing beyond that... sadly, modest mouse will be PAYING epic for this treat out of royalties for quite some time... rather than seeing it as being romanced by the "big time"... see it as modest mouse having a hefty car payment to a company that could control their career... brock is a smart guy, and somehow made it so the record company was not in control as much as they normally would have been... he fucked them crazy and left them a note on the night standto say thanks for the great dicksuck... the change in their music is known as stylistic growth... perhaps you don't want that, and i say that's fine... but then go ahead and listen to the same record for the next ten years, and don't go ahead and buy a new one... you will be dissapointed no matter what... i know we are all entitled to our own opinions, but i ask you this question: how do you know that this wasn't the inevitable progression of the music, rather than something that was fuled by more money? how do you know for sure? (oh yeah phiL, you rule the posts crazy... make them get the vapors) love and cheez-its, leigh
