What's up with band's that have Myspace pages?
 

I've been to Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Mong Hang, etc. Are any of them actually on these sites?? I seriously doubt it. It seems like all the myspace pages are just fan pages, and all these people write stuff like " You are one of my biggest influences!! blah blah " Like they're actually gonna read it or even know the site exists.

I think to some extent most of them have permission from the band, they have to in order to have the songs up, but obviously some of the sites are fan-made or illegal or whatever. The ones you mentioned have been up for quite a while, so they almost certainly have permission. I've seen some where the artists are actually the ones who go on.

i think most of the band pages i've seen on myspace are run by the artists themselves. although, i only tend to check out the myspace pages of new or current bands. why bother with the pages of bands that split up?

Alot of bands actually have the Myspace address in the booklet of their albums now. it's a free website, why not. Alot of them are actually run by the labels, though, not necessarly the band.

That's what i suspected

why bother with myspace period?

Tour dates, easy access to songs, updates, and information about the band if you've never heard of them before. If you already have a myspace, it's way easier than going to each band's individual site.

Why? Because everyone else is on there.

It'd be a pretty bad career decision to avoid that extremely viable way of promotion.

I'm not a myspace fan though. I think personal accounts to talk to people you don't know, or to talk to people you do know, and post pics of yourself etc, and be false, is a waste of time. But then I think, without them, there'd be no need for band myspaces either, therefore missing out on free band promotion.

Contrary to what I at first thought, they do not automatically assign 200 random Black Eyed Peas fans to your list upon creating an account. It is a good way to keep in touch with people. I finally gave in and got one, and I still only have 6 people on my friend thing. So I have no problem with it anymore.

Bands that are dead or probably would never have a myspace (shellac..) .. those are fake.

The rest are real. Mong Hang's is probably real.

to hear the music of bands i haven't heard yet, of course.

Yeah, as people said before, the myspace pages of the bigger bands are run and set up by the labels. A lot of them will even say something like "this page is run by the label ... the band doesnt use or run this site (or something like that)" just to let the people leaving messages for the band know that they are probably wasting their time, but people do it anyways.

people are beginning to think that because of sites like myspace, the term "underground music" no longer has any relevancy, because people from all over the world can check out the music, whereas before the internet, it had to be word from the streets

well what's more underground than that? it takes quite a bit to let the world know about your tiny slice of the net.

SY have a myspace page

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...dID=315 45506

it still is word from the streets, just these streets involve bulletin boards and emails, no different just quicker and kids today don't get the attitude that was around 15 years ago, they were born with these things ready to enter a virtual world, where as those older generations were not.

I FUCKING HATE MYSAPCE. i HATE TOM. I HOPE HE GOES BANKRUPT. MYSPACE WILL DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH.