Good news for bands! Last week oil dropped to under 50 dollars a barrel, and I also noticed the other day that gas was $2.49 at a station in Manhattan (you know, the island where everything is inexplicably more expensive). Why post this economic news on a music blog? Well, folks, it means that indie bands can get back on the road and start playing shows again.
It seems like not long ago everyone was running stories about how the high cost of gas was going to kill the touring industry or how bands were looking to “go green” to save money on touring. (This, of course, came after articles about how touring was going to save the music industry; either way, the music industry is fucked). Now that the tyranny of high gas prices is over, bands can go back to saving money the old fashion way: by buying old, inefficient vans.
Looks like These Are Powers might not have to convert their van after all (unless they, you know, actually care about the environment or something):
Now we can all look forward to new articles about how the music industry is fucked, like how even though bands can afford gas prices again, no one will come to their shows because nobody has jobs in the current economic crisis! Ah, what a brave new world we live in.
Oh and apparently, Michael Jackson is now a Muslim–sorry, I couldn’t resist bringing that up!
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