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Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ
What website isn't pretentious? Websites are simply advertisements on the grandious scale. If a website wasn't pretentious, it would be boring. On the same note, BT has very little if any control over the marketing of his art forms. I have no idea which one, but I remember he signed on with one of the larger scale recording companies. They could careless (really, they don't care) what he produces. They simply want it to sell. That's where you get the over adjective ladden babble that record companies think will attract the "serious" music buyer.
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Totally agree - it's one of the contributing factors to myspace blowing up the way it has, I now rely almost 100% on artists' myspace sites versus their websites. The key factor is that the artists themselves maintain the myspace site, so the content is more often than not more up to date, especially tour dates, and crucially it feels more honest.