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In such reckoning shallbe the revealing of such operations of such syndicates and their trades,such as: "clique" rackets requiring pay-into membership to receivecertain services or recognition, contractual bondage, disrespect of earnings,theft of funds and/or artistic freedoms and ideas using diversion, usingcomputated formulas to divert funds from artists and or entities undercontract to the contractholders, supporting a pay-for-play racket on publictelevision, radio and media in order to produce a "surreal" industrythe music mafia can control and manipulate; inflation of cost to do businessfor independents, misrepresentation in markets due to such rackets andinfluence, etc... Even then, We shall bring more.
For We, the Underground,against the music mafia have been ripped off by their corporate tactics, lawyers,and greed. We have been forced to create our own industry, which at thefirst sign of success the music mafia controlled industries tries to buy-out or squash. Thenwe have been straight out lied to, stolen from, and done harm to from thetactics of the music mafia. Everything from inflating our costs to functionand survive to outright black-listing and extortion. We have been underthe rule of the music mafia dominated media as to our degree of exposure andsuccess. This we are no more!
Our forces have beenkept poor and downtrodden by the manipulations of the music mafia. Fromgetting paid for our records, getting ripped off by Publishers in leaguewith the music mafia, to being shut out of available avenues of finance.You, the music mafia in league with one another and those in the governmentsyou control, have mis-represented our earnings, air and playtime to benefityour good, not ours, and have used lies and threats to make yourselves look good, and the indies bad.
NOW AGAINST SUCH, WARIS DECLARED!!!
The United Undergroundwill now prosper even more than it has as a seperate entity from your tactics.We won't play payola, and we will expose your rackets. We shall gain enoughpower and reason to not need your "mafia" contracts andavenues. We shall fight to keep the Internet free from your racketeering,and own our own radio which will not accept your advertising dollars, or if doingso we hold the price to our standards, not yours. Weshall have our own cable and other digital/analog promotional deliveryvehicles, such shall be successful even without yourblessings.
Our media shall growstronger, bigger and more effective outside those who do not league withus. Our media will not accept domination by music mafiamonies.
We shall get aroundyour concert touring scams by making ourselves the value to the Promoter;and set to expose those ungracious Promoters who do us wrong. We'll have our ownplantsto produce our music products. We have and shall extend our own avenuesof product distribution, marketing and promotions outside your"cliques".We shall live and progress without you. In doing so we shall make it moreexpensive for you to do business as usual, and to "steal" undergroundbands and ideas once they're making it or becoming real, and to have peoplethink your corporate pay-for-play is the only game in town. Those whodo not respect independent artists, bands, and filmakers shall learn suchtalents are not dictated on the music mafia's terms, or mis-representedto the public. The Underground shall provide as the War progresses, evenmore of the originality we do now, and you shall learn from us, and learnto follow, even moreso than you do now. We shall constantly make it a betterparty, with much better bands. You shall not buy us outanymore!
We are not of violence,lest violence be raised against us. We shall stand and propser as Independent,away from your delusions, rackets and scams. Working with us is not outof the question, but trying to dominate us is fruitless. Our goal is to make youformally agree to fair terms, or take a fair share of your musicbusiness.
AS OF JULY 13, 1997IT IS KNOWN:
The Underground uncoverthe music mafia industry by bringing to light those things which are done unto us disrespectfullyand without cause except for need of greed..There shall be Justice, as we are in this War to WIN.
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