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Originally Posted by Martian
I like The Postal Service, but they're only pretending to be indie.
Death Cab for Cutie is signed to Atlantic, who sure as shit isn't going to let their talent produce under any other labels. So Ben Gibbard goes to Sub Pop to do the Postal Service. Suddenly he has indie cred again! Except, wait...
Warner owns half of Sub Pop. Warner owns all of Atlantic.
Hmm...
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Sure, we could all classify The Postal Service as "pretending to be indie" but if the music they produce is valid and good listening, should it really matter? Compared to the Mass Media shit (Paris Hilton is making another album... readies puke bucket), it should really be about the sound the artist makes, not necessarily the lable. If Sub Pop is giving them the artistic freedom that they seek, isn't that all that matters? If The Postal Service was really heavily mass produced and mediated, we would not be hearing what we hear from them.