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Originally Posted by elphenor
you think they're gonna give you thousands of dollars to record the type of album you would have recorded on a 100 dollar budget
very briefly with The Pistols and Clash you had a period where major labels would allow that sort of thing but then they tightened the ropes and the result is both bands bitterly resented their labels and would release songs about it
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I don't think anyone's going to give me any money.
But my overall point is I'm not interested in whether a band is on a major label. Labels are only interested in money but I'm not sure why they would bother looking for punk bands to turn into pop bands when they can just find pop bands. So I have no reason to think a label would make a band automatically worse or better.
I think it boils down to an entirely subjective opinion. I quite like their early stuff, and it was a kind of gateway drug for me when I was younger, whereas I presume it sounds like cookie cutter pop to you. It sounds different to us, so we put different labels on it.