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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
This was my experience as well, but on the east coast (NYC). It was a sweet deal back then before all the Indie labels and smaller labels got gobbled up by the Majors. At one point there were about 60 record companies in NYC and I was on the mailing list for all but Elektra (the head of PR - THAT BITCH! - never liked me after I misquoted Natalie Merchant in an article. I had the audacity to make her sound intelligent. But I digress...)
So I would get maybe 200-300 CDs a week, plus whatever I picked up while visitng record labels. We're talking around $1000 a week (cash) back then. Awesome since writing about music (as a freelancer) paid shit. LOL
It WAS better back then. Now everyone is isolated and scattered.
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It was a fun time. For the roughly 4 years I did that I don't think I ever paid for an album, a concert or a movie. I don't know why, we never wrote about movies, but movie studios would always send us free passes to their screenings. I understood it when they had a big sountrack coming out with the movie, but even on movies that didn't they sent passes. There was a part of me that thought most publicist had no idea how to do their job and instead would just blanket mail stuff to every magazine or newspaper in an area.