Math Tinder said:
I know you don't like them as a company Puddle, but I don't personally want to contribute to their demise; they have signed a lot of good people over the years.
I don't think criticizing them will bring them down. but if i persoanlly contribue to their demise, i guess i can put that on a resume somewhere--near the bottom of course.
But yeah, I do think they do a horrible job and they release horrible products. I remember many of us complained about the sound quality of Live At earl's Court (didn't at the same time another band under Sanctuary pull their live CD because it sounded like shit? someone confirm? unless someone confirms no one take this to be fact, i just remember something vaguely but it could have been a dream. it was in an article a couple years ago that covered finacial troubles at Sanctuary?...one of the first times we heard something about their financial troubles).
These days, from being in the business so long, morrissey expects a certain amount of professionalism and competence from the people working around you, to make sure everything is as close to perfect as possible (hell Morrissey may have never even listened to Live at Earl‘s Court--give an approval of the track list and expect the label to be able to release a good product).
Finally Morrissey realizes the people at Sanctuary are incompetent (i'm happy i'm not alone and someone else realizes it). They need some new people to change things around . They need money. Everything is being short changed and quite frankly Morrissey is wasting valuable years at sanctuary. I don’t want another horrible quality Live album from them. Even ROTT sounded slightly off (though it sounds good on my IPOD, a little weird and flat on the stereo..and i've tried a few of them...likewise, there were a good number of us mentioning the audio quality being off. is it really the producer's fault? perhaps...i don't think so though. that's my opinion. i would blame the producer if the label had a good track record...but they don't).
Speaking of Live albums, I have the Who Put the M in Manchester converted to MP3...I love it. The sound crew on that video shoot knew what they were doing. Plus I like the Set list more than Earl‘s Abort…
finally, if you were morrissey, wouldn't this piss you off (hope the link works):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/ma...d=242&sSheet=/money/2006/06/24/ixcitytop.html