polar sky wrote:Pantheon wrote:Rodheh wrote:My point though was that I highly doubt BoC sincerely is concerned with the business aspect. Are they going to release a name your price album? Most likely not. Do they care about publicity stunt money and tour money? Not at all.
John peel commented that their ability to plan far a head in terms of buissness is "most impressive".
At best your making some educated guesses, but don't confuse their "myth" with reality.
Agreed.
Has anyone actually met Mike and Marcus, not BoC, but Mike and Marcus. Just because you've read some interviews doesn't mean you know who they are personally.
My "educated guess" is one that has been formed from the simple observations I've made of BoC's utter refusal to sell out in any way, shape or form. They've only done one (as far as I know) music video, they refuse a lot of interview requests and they keep their most treasured and early recordings entirely to themselves. They don't whore out iTunes artist of the month shit and offer for sale things like Boards of Canada coffee mugs on their website for 3x more than their worth, and if they did, fans wouldn't buy them because their fanbase is almost entirely composed of intellectual, unique people whose musical influences (many are also artists), opinions and interests are of non-mainstream, non-mediocre freethinking original base points. They don't start up some bullshit court case over the name "Twoism" and they spend years on end creating music to ensure both the quality and diversity of it is of values equally or more impressive than the last.
To me, every point shows them leaning further towards art than business by far, and the fact they've not released some placeholder throwaway album in the mean time makes it pretty clear they aren't extremely concerned with a financial surplus.
