McDonald's Has "No Budget" to Pay Artists at SXSW Showcase - http://gawker.com/mcdonal...
Mar 5, 2015
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"This isn't the first year SXSW has played host to a corporation you regularly see advertising during the Super Bowl. Last year, for example, there was a Doritos thing that featured Lady Gaga. However, Doritos paid Lady Gaga $2.5 million dollars for that thing. What of the future Lady Gagas (music industry compliment) McDonald's is courting to perform at their 2015 showcase? The $90 billion corporation, powered by poverty-stricken workers, does not—hmm, let's see, ahhh, maybe if we...ah nope, sorry—have a budget, unfortunately."
- Jessie
"Of course, if you are a band, you are free to turn down such a showcase. Similarly, and less complicatedly, if you are McDonald's, you are free to fucking pay people. "
- Jessie
Wow. That's pretty shameless!
- Jenny H.
http://spiziks.livejournal.com/452724... "My favorite response to this common maneuver is from the cartoon "The Big Picture" -- a more-or-less autobiographical strip by trombonist Lennie Peterson. When a bar owner tries to talk them into an unpaid performance at his bar, on the premise "if the crowd likes you, we'll consider hiring you for paid gigs", the band leader replies "How about we bring around forty or fifty of our friends, and you can serve us drinks for free, and if we like them we'll consider coming back and actually buying drinks next weekend." For some reason he didn't go for that offer..."
- bentley
I've heard variations on "Do you buy groceries/pay your rent with exposure?" but I like bentley's response better.
- Jessie