get the f***ing wax out of your silicon hippie ears – meet the artist: "in order to get the green light for the universal/polygram merger, seagrams promised their shareholders a return on cuts, not profits. they have a huge artist stable raped from three established major labels and two thirds has got to go, bringing it down to a trim, wealthy machine made up of just the plump ripe sellers. millions of sales are now required to cover the increasing overheads at these labels. overheads increased through ludicrous executive bonus payouts, inflated expense accounts and the quest for the porsche. the artist is put to work harder and faster, in order to feed the machine.

[...] their utter dependence on the radio means that the good ship thethe is abandoned as soon as the fear of no-play takes hold. they can think of no alternative and why should they when they can swiftly move on to the next act on the plank (step forward beck, whoops! step forward nine inch nails...oh dear, no doubt...ouch! chris cornell...?) one act after another has fallen into the ocean. being signed to the universal conglomerate has been like being trapped on a cruise on the mary celeste. the lights are on but nobody's home." – excerpts from thethe versus the corporate monster by matt johnson.

matt johnson has decided to offer track by track/week by week free downloads of his latest album nakedself on thethe.com.