Another reason to hate green day
 

http://www.mtvasia.com/News/200508/04012294.html

Gee guys, pulling off your old INDIE label so you can make more cash on your re release on a major. Thats reeeeeeal punkk rock...

i cant blame them though, honestly..sounds like Lookout dropped the ball and wasnt giving the artists what they were owed. Any professional musician would of done the same.

At the same time Green Day is making MILLIONS of dollars a year. Lookout is pretty much responsible for there success early on and the fact that they would turn around and betray there roots bugs me alot.

ya, i guess i look at it differently, i see it as lookout owes most of their success to greenday, more so than vice versa. I dont think greenday is screwing the company, it sounds like the company was screwing the bands. Lookout sold tons of GD albums and im sure got paid a pretty penny because of it, even bands like GD deserve their fair share of the profits produced by the music they make. almost like the DK/alternative tentacles fiasco where the dk royalties were going back into AT and not into the musicians pockets where it was supposed to go.

I hate them ever more so.


did i post the buzzc0cks calling them posers yet article?

hate them or not, they deserve their royalties.

well said.

I wouldn't sleep well at night if I knew that my withdrawal bankrupted the label that got my band going. Especially if I'm sleeping with money bags as pillows. But, I guess that's why I'm not cut out for the world of business.

I agree with the whore with the gunz.

:clap:

if greendays withdrawl was the reason lookout went bankrupt then they (lookout) did some serious screwups with their accounting. think about it. for every album greenday sold on lookout, the band gets a small percentage of that, the record company gets a bigger percentage. there should be no reason a label shouldnt have more funds than a band they are producing. If lookout ends up going belly up over this then i say good, before they end up screwing other bands on their label that dont have the opportunity to shop around in the majors like greenday does. An alternative to greenday saying "give me our money, the money you owe us, the money we deserve" they could of said "give me your label". then everyone would be bitching and complaining how greenday tookover lookout. Lookout screwed them, and probably many other bands on their label due to shoddy money management.

the fact that they wrote a song called american idiot when they are american is enough for me to hate them.

im not defending their music, ive never been a fan of greenday and ive never spent a penny on any of their music (unless you count the 1.00 in pennies we threw at them at the fair, which we snuck in to) Im just defending their decision to not allow lookout to continue to lose the royalties they deserve.

I still agree with hookers its a moral thing.

so its ok morally for a label to not pay a band if the band is successful?

Green day could bath in money they really dont need anymore lookout got them big they could let them keep the cash they really dont need it.

- unlike greenday, these other bands arent rolling in the money, and lookout still screwed them.

- doesnt sound greedy to me, or else they would of already sued the pants off of lookout (like DK did to jello and alt. tent), they just want their masters, which is more than reasonable because lookout is selling it, but not paying the artist....LAME.

Stop shi'tting your pants over something that won't change.

i think fenix has got it right....

The simple fact is that bands leave record labels all the time and for much more superficial reasons then why Greenday did. The fact that Greenday stayed with Lookout for over 10 years after they had reached a level of success that surely had major labels beating a path to their door actually boosts my opinion of them. Don't get so disillusioned to be believe that this is anything less than an intelligent business decision, and one that any one of you would make given the same set of circumstances. It could have easily been said ten years ago after Dookie was released and received the acclaim that it did that Greenday owed its success to their record company, but I think at this point, ten years later, the truth is that Lookout owes its current success to Greenday, and the loss of its best selling artist to their own poor business decisions.

i still dont like them as a band but record label shifting i brlieve happens all the time

Yeah look at anti fag...flag :rolleyes:

^ hah anti *** flag thats funny

whatever.i think green day is an awesome band.