To be fair, look at what people like Adele and the british independent labels were saying last week before she chimed in. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

To be fair, look at what people like Adele and the british independent labels were saying last week before she chimed in. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9756009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9756009 TS simply agreed with a previously articulated view. She didn't invent the argument. (edit: They already pulled adele from the contract talks from what I gather, presumably because XL is indeed one of those small labels that breaks original talent, but doesn't have the superstar/financial status of the majors to just eat a full quarter of earnings/working capital. And given how spiky a hit based industry is it might be even worse if one of these companies had to launch a once in a lieftime hit record in this window, etc).