>sales don't even matter to you... a real artist.. is
>concerned about art. This whole record sales thing is a
>fucking plague.

bull f'ing ish!!!! MJ wanted commercial success, Marvin Did...and so did Donny Hathaway. Most artists do whether they admit or not because if they didn't they wouldn't sign to a recording label, they could just make music in their basement.
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>Could you imagine Picasso worried about sales?

yeah I guess that's why artists like him and Van Gogh (&even Basquiat), who wanted desperately to sell his artwork to the masses that it almost drove him crazy, *sold* their artwork. smh TERRIBLE EXAMPLE...