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Lunchtime Poll: As Soon As You Sign That Record Deal

2/9/07, 10:38 am EST

You’ve been toiling away in your basement for years, obsessing over chord progressions, perfect pop song structure and practicing your ballad and jam stances. Finally it’s paid off. Last weekend some scouts from Interscope came down to check out your weekly gig at the local rec center, dug your post post punk thing, and offered you a bazillion dollar deal on the spot. After signing on the dotted line, what do you do? What do you buy? Is it hookers and champagne? A home aquarium stocked with dozens of highly trained sharks? A small island next to Mick’s? A home for the stuffed animal collection you no longer have to hide because now that you’re a rock star it’s quirky not creepy?


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JC | 2/9/2007, 10:51 am EST

A lawyer and a good accountant.

Betty | 2/9/2007, 10:58 am EST

I would buy everyone in my family all new cars, including myself. Then retire and move to Sedona with my family and friends.

Eat The Rich | 2/9/2007, 11:01 am EST

I would invest it all in renewable energy.

Stanimal | 2/9/2007, 11:12 am EST

Are you kidding me?? Go out and lay every single hollywood starlet i could find, i gotta catch up to Justin Timberlake…. then immediately go out and pick a fight with the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, Panic at the Disco and 50 Cent just to cover all demographics… Marketing baby!!!

Lobsters | 2/9/2007, 11:16 am EST

I’d buy Bai Ling.

Matty | 2/9/2007, 11:18 am EST

Duhhh dude I would buy enough coke to fill a large bowl, then slam my face in it!

NY Nate | 2/9/2007, 11:19 am EST

Betty wrote:

“I would buy everyone in my family all new cars, including myself. Then retire and move to Sedona with my family and friends.”

Sedona?!? Isn’t that where that cult, The Aquarians are? The ones looking for the “Christ-Michael” to come down in a UFO from space and take them all to heaven?!? The leader’s name is Gabriel of Sedona, I believe. Lemme know if the “Christ-Michael” swings through. Just keep ur eye on the sky! haha! In the meantime don’t let Gabriel get his hands on ur money. Eyes to the sky and hands on the pocketbook. Sounds like living in NYC!

Roots | 2/9/2007, 11:20 am EST

I’d buy me a Kunte-Kinte

PCL | 2/9/2007, 11:38 am EST

i’d buy my way out of that contract and try to get on an indie label so I wouldnt be forced to put records out that appealed to soccer moms and love sick adolescents.

craigers | 2/9/2007, 11:49 am EST

I would start my own record label, for when the shit-ass major I sign with decides that music isn’t as profitable as soap and deodorant, and they drop our no-talent asses.

charliemapleton | 2/9/2007, 11:52 am EST

A Trinidad soccer team and marry Cedella Marley(Bob Marley’s daughter).It would be paradise!

Scott P | 2/9/2007, 11:54 am EST

After setting aside a couple million to pay for my daughter’s college education in 18 years (let’s face it, that’s how much it’ll cost!), I’d first buy a place in Paris, then after that, I’d give a huge check to the Flaming Lips, and have them be my backing band and co-headliners on my first tour (like they did with Beck a few years back).

John | 2/9/2007, 12:04 pm EST

I’d sell out as fast as possible.

charliemapleton | 2/9/2007, 12:17 pm EST

Even though i’m looking into organizations right now-more so the American Diabetes Association,Above The Influence,and the American Heart Association,rightfully donate $250 million more dollars to them.People fighting for a cause are the real rock stars.Anybody else plan to step up?

RushFan | 2/9/2007, 12:31 pm EST

I would make sure my family was set, and then I’d invest in a studio and learn to produce/engineer…that way I have something else to provide income when the public tires of my music. Oh…and I’d try really, really hard to sleep with Jessica Simpson.

FG | 2/9/2007, 1:03 pm EST

Buy instruments.

Bean | 2/9/2007, 1:40 pm EST

I’d buy my first car — considering I’ve never owned or had my own. I’ve always shared. Then I’d make sure my cousin’s leukemia bills were set, and send my grandmother on a trip through Europe.

I would then buy a condo in Soho, and study in Italy.

Haha, it’s wonderful to dream, I guess.

G.R.I.T.S. | 2/9/2007, 1:43 pm EST

I’d give a tithe to my church, buy my brothers season tickets to the Cowboys, buy my mom a sorts car, my dad anything he wanted, then i’d buy my self a fully loaded truck, and a farm.

Bort | 2/9/2007, 2:12 pm EST

Pay off the bills. The loans… Then think about the family.

Moose | 2/9/2007, 3:10 pm EST

Pay off bills, buy a luxury box at Busch Stadium, a summer cabin in Alaska, and Roger McGuinn’s 12-string Rickenbacker. Get a good car, get my kids what they want, and give the rest to my wife, because I’ve been trained to turn my paycheck over to her anyway….

lik roper | 2/9/2007, 4:30 pm EST

hmmm…just don’t sign any contract that you can’t get out of without owing an arm and a leg to the record company – and make sure you’re not getting signed as a tax write-off…

timidiot | 2/9/2007, 4:43 pm EST

I would buy the musical equipment i’ve been wanting for a while. I’d get a whole setup so we could play a live show with no help from anyone else. Just go around and set up and play in the middle of a park or something. Then after a while i’d buy a house with a place to practice and a recording studio in it.

jill hives | 2/9/2007, 5:04 pm EST

since i am already a billionaire, i would donate the record company’s money to the defense fund of all the people that get in trouble for downloading music.

a | 2/9/2007, 5:32 pm EST

stuff

Theodor Herzl | 2/9/2007, 6:03 pm EST

i like the idea of this ‘poll’, but would like to point out that this, in fact is not a poll, merely a blog where music geeks (such as myself)express their opinions about fairly ridiculous topics. but to answer your question, i would buy a bugatti veyron and a lifetime supply of poonpie

cobracommander | 2/9/2007, 7:49 pm EST

I’d give Chuck Norris a million bucks to kick my boss in the FACE!!!

cheesecrop | 2/9/2007, 7:49 pm EST

I would invest everything towards buying the necessary equipment to turn myself into Batman.

frank | 2/9/2007, 8:57 pm EST

i’d give it to charity… HAHAHAHAHA no really, id buy a BIG house with its own forest, have a fully equiped recording studio, including grand piano, kick ass drum set, 30 or more guitars, the works. oh, and a wine cellar… and a “miscellaneous booze cellar”. FULL.

KrKr | 2/9/2007, 9:22 pm EST

I’d buy a castle, a bugatti, and possibly florida.

lala | 2/10/2007, 4:56 pm EST

uummm i think i would make another CBGB in new york because i miss it already and buy iced tea and coffee

Martin | 2/10/2007, 6:57 pm EST

1) Recruit hack musicians (preferably ex-school mates) to record one (and one only) overated, overblown and overproduced dog-turd of an album.

2) Have record company deliberately “leak” morsels onto the ‘web and then sue filesharing companys quicker than a rat down a drainpipe.

3) Promote album by playing overpriced 45-minute gigs (no encores) in every stadium on the planet (except Somalia).

4) Descend into a hell of substance abuse, Paris Hilton/Kate Moss clones, sex scandals and overeating.

5) Band disbands in disgust and record company produces “Greatest Hits” compilation to milk corpse (rehashed debut album padded-out with shitty demos and B-sides).

Two options at this point:

6a) Live off the royalties of countless “Best Of” compilations.

Hire ghostwriter to write autobiography of experiences as failed musician/reformed drug-addict and hire geek to fashion MySpace wankblog.

Or

6b) Repeat 1-5 until death ensues.

Hunter | 2/11/2007, 9:13 am EST

make that $40

Zach | 2/11/2007, 3:06 pm EST

I’d buy at least 300 different guitars, Stephen Hawking, a new house, enough highly illegal substances to get every single person in the state contact high, a castle, and maybe the entire state of Wyoming.

aiden. | 2/12/2007, 12:52 am EST

improve my record collection. books. a bari sax. kurt cobain’s guitar. a custom made fender strat (black w/dark purple face, dark purple fret board, and mother of pearl fret markings)an amp. and power cable. and pick. an ipod w/more storage. mental help. (the list goes on and on)OH! and bandaids.

myspace.com/15keys | 2/12/2007, 12:50 pm EST

I definitely get some better equipment for the band. Then Id buy a huge house on some island and make it into a recording studio so when its time to record we will do it in between sunning and swimming. Then i’d buy some blow and some hookers and get crazy!!!! Oh wait thats Pat O’Brien

jandek | 2/13/2007, 12:24 pm EST

get all 600 plus songs recorded and released…tour the world…and then see all the bands I havent seen yet and try to hang with vini reilly from duritti column…kevin shields from my bloody valentine. also hang with radiohead. and of course visit nick drakes grave.

16 clumsy + shy | 2/13/2007, 7:36 pm EST

Move out immediately, buy Graceland and make it my own, somehow and somewhere miraculously meet Green Day, go back and punch my 4th grade teacher in the face just ’cause I can….
Then hire a really really really good lawyer.

slowdancechance | 2/14/2007, 4:31 pm EST

Get a great lawyer,a great accountant,travel the world,setup a charity,help pay others medical bills that are in need,buy some nice guitars,recording studio,bodyguards and keep my close friends even closer.Live a simple life!

brookem | 2/26/2007, 1:17 am EST

buy my apartment and never pay rent again (just rates) then get a giant tour bus and become a touring artist (like phish). pay my parents back for my education, buy my sister a pony and give money to charity- like feeding orphans an struggling musicians. and i’d save enough to open up a bookstore (just like shakespeare and co., in paris) when i get to old and dull to tour… oh yeah, and whiskey. lots of whiskey

shelly | 3/29/2007, 10:56 pm EST

i luv pete wentz

shelly | 3/29/2007, 10:56 pm EST

frends nathan tegan nat and lots lots more lol jks

sicpmry lxvnr | 8/1/2007, 8:44 pm EST

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