Morgan the Music Mogul Man Part II

Feburary 20, 1997

By Morgan Carlson

Alright, fuck this artistic shit. It's the business route for me to
get some cheap musical publicity. I'm forming my own record company -
hell, all you guys can. Go to www.billboard.com and join the Billboard
Challenge! You make your own little record company and pick ten albums
from the charts, and you see how good you are at picking hot sellers.
Right now, my company - No Pants Required Records - is kinda flailing.
Bob Dylan... seemed like a good idea at the time. And GP Wu, a Staten
Island rap group best known for being allowed to be in the same studio as
the Wu-Tang, haven't exactly broken out as planned. (They got me - and
this is at last check - 0 points. Shit, even the Foo Fighters got me
something.)
Well, maybe I'm losing now (I'm number 500 out of 947 - I'm losing to a
guy with a company called Rogie Records - ugh), but come Grammy time, No
Pants Required Records will be taking charge. Oh, how they laughed when
I picked Paula Cole, Fiona Apple, Radiohead..... but once they start
bringing home those little trophies, sales will skyrocket. (Hmm.... was
GP Wu nominated, by any chance?) So come play.... it's fun, and it's
free.
- Morgan -

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