"We're
now in distribution abundance," says Jon Fine, "so if you're telling me that
Amazon is bad for culture, like seriously, fuck you."
Fine is the
executive editor of Inc. and the author of the acclaimed new memoir, Your Band
Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Here), a
rollicking tour of his days in the alternative music scene of the late 1980s and
'90s.
"Somewhere in the latter half of the eighties, it became much
easier for weird bands to do band things: play shows, make records, go on tour.
The hows and whys that had been so elusive just a few years earlier were now
shared through surprisingly effective samizdat and word-of-mouth networks,"
writes Fine, a member of "resolutely non-famous bands" such as Bitch Magnet and
Coptic Light.
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