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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
That is because he is in many ways beholden to the money - who wouldn't be. To me, that has nothing to do with artistic integrity....
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I agree. The cold, hard fact is that we all need to make money. And, hopefully, we get to make money while also doing something that we love.
But, if we want to make money, then we HAVE to be willing to make compromises. If Warner Bros is going to invest a huge amount of money for an artist to record an album, they expect... rightfully so... to make that money back. It IS a business.
The fact that Lindsey recorded most of 'Under The Skin' in hotel rooms, is probably the single biggest reason why Warners is so laidback about sales figures this time around. They didn't have to give Lindsey a huge advance to record it. He handed them something he made on a shoe-string budget.
So even if 'UTS' sells no more than the usual amount of copies for a Lindsey Buckingham album, they're in the black.