Well, they took it kind of hard and in fact, they were so proud of that blog post that they put it in their corporate newsletter!
That is some funny shit, because here I was, thinking I was just blabbing about ideas, and then I find out that my words on a blog post have enough impact to get a company to print their defense of my words in the marketing material they send to their customers.
That got me thinking though: Why the hell would they do that? Is it just me or is that really fucking weird? I think there’s like 10 musicians subscribed to my blog, anyone else that does music is a geek who dabbles in it. The intersection of people who read what I say and tunecore’s customers has to be smaller than a gnat’s testicles. They’d have done way better if they just shut the hell up, so why bring attention to my blog at all?
I doubt I get more traffic than they do, but maybe getting me to point at them shot their numbers up or made some investor happy. Maybe I freaked some investor out. Who the fuck knows, all I know is I wrote a blog post that scared a company into defending itself with multiple media types over the course of a month.
All I gotta say to that is, “Methinks thou dost protest too much.”
Remember when I had neon strippers on my blog and I wore leather? Remember the skull? Ahh, those were the days. Nobody fucked with me back then. Everyone realized I was not only unstable, but more than willing to use my vast store of insider information to destroy people who fuck with me.
These days, I’m much nicer. These days, when Gary says:
“TC will adapt to work with whatever new model comes along.” — Gary, CTO TuneCore
I don’t expose why I know that’s such a total joke.
Instead, I do this little experiment with you, my readers.
Let’s take a little trip to see something I see:
Go to tunecore.com and come back.
What do you see?
Now go to cdbaby.com and come back.
Ok, now what do you see all over CDBaby that’s not on TuneCore?
Artists.