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Thirty (30) past and present Matador Recording artists were
telephoned over the weekend of July 8-9 and asked the following
questions:
- Do you approve of the job Matador is doing?
- What do you consider to be the #1
problem facing Matador?
- Pavement gets all the attention (30%)
- Liz Phair gets all the attention (20%)
- Jon Spencer gets all the attention (20%)
- All those bands we've never heard of get all the attention
(10%)
- Eklow's catalog descriptions (7%)
- You can only blame Johan
for SO much (7%)
- The Elevator Sucks (5%)
- It begins with an "A" and ends with a "C" (1%)
- If you could be on another label, what would it be?
- Tag (2%)
- Drag City (4%)
- Touch & Go (7%)
- Merge (10%)
- Walt (35%)
- Mammoth (47%)
- Main reason you signed to Matador?
- The money was right (5%)
- Total Destruction
would really benefit from major label distribution (6%)
- Can't remember (11%)
- Grabel told us to (13%)
- Chance to meet Jon Spencer (15%)
- Chance to meet Danny Goldberg (25%)
- Corey didn't return phone call (25%)
- If Chris and Gerard could be replaced, who would you
like to see running the label?
- Dick Dahl (3%)
- Mike Gitter (5%)
- Jake from Squirt TV (10%)
- Jackie Farry (10%)
- Danny Goldberg (25%)
- Accutron 2000 (40%)
- Anyone else (7%)
- Best way for Matador to do a better job?
- Encourage more stores to think Rusty's
a man (5%)
- Discontinue newsletter (8%)
- Find us a new booking agent (15%)
- Make Jim Thirwell staff producer (15%)
- Start lobbying for Batman IV soundtrack / Be
nice to Krumper (15%)
- Provide Health Insurance / Buy us powerbooks (20%)
- Keep sending JR Taylor money every week (22%)
margin of error: 110%
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