Talk:SST Records/Archives/2014

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Cesstone Music and SST Records?
Does anyone know what the exact relationship is between Cesstone Music and SST Records? Is it a division of SST? Are they one and the same? Help. :-) &mdash;LarryGilbert 17:37, 2004 Mar 18 (UTC)

yep greg ginn owns cesstone it has all of his music + most of the other bands on sst so he gets all the publishing rights to their music and most of their royalties too this is one greedy bloke and is one of the reasons koch (his distributor) will no longer release any new sst records sst is just a memrabilia manufactors and distributors now with no future all thanks to mr ginn there are over 900 songs on his cesstone. hope this helps.

Cesstone is the publishing name that Greg Ginn used to publish his own music, as well as that from a number of SST artists. Could someone elaborate the part about Koch not distributing any future SST releases? I had just figured Greg couldn't be bothered finding any new bands to sign that didn't include himself.167.127.24.25 18:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Cesstone Music is the publishing arm of SST Records. This is legit. These answers are partly wrong. Music publishing is paid in two ways -- publishing rights and songwriter rights. Most record labels, SST included, will own the publishing rights as part of their deal to sign you on their label. This is very common, unless you're Bruce Springsteen or someone like that. This goes for Prince in his early years, and even The Beatles (yes, to this day, Paul McCartney does NOT own the publishing rights to his songs. Michael Jackson bought them.) The band makes money from touring and from record/CD sales. The songwriters (sometimes the band, sometimes the guitarist, sometimes it's a cover) make the songwriter money from the song being licensed or played. And the publishing entity (the label or the group or whoever is contracted to own those rights) get the license/synch money. (I don't need a citation. I ran music publishing for 3 years.)

SST sidekicks
I think it is necessary to mention Alliance and Cruz Records, since they shared their back catalogue with SST. Furthermore, they released all the side projects of several SST musicians, such as Mike Watt's Bootstrappers or some of Greg Ginn's solo records.

SST Owners
In the Early Years section, I removed Mike Watt's name from the list of SST Employees/Owners. Although Mike worked for the label, he was never a partial owner of the label (unlike Dukowski, Mugger, and Carducci). The way that sentence was worded left the impression that he was.167.127.24.25 18:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

SST Problems
What this article doesn't elaborate on is the fact that JEM was their music distributor. They took a boatload of the releases that were sold to stores and kept the money, never giving it back to SST, which couldn't then compensate the bands. JEM went bankrupt around 1988, taking all that money with them. That was actually the beginning of the financial decline of SST. Also, some additional financial & legal issues were the inclusion of a Disney photo on a Sonic Youth album, which had to be taped over; one of The Beatles cover songs that had to be renamed "Song for Michael Jackson to Sell," which had to be taken off the market; and the fact that Interscope sued SST for the Negativland sampling. All of these were out of their hands, although admittedly if they had had a legal person on staff these kinds of things probably would have been avoided. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.225.168.2 (talk) 20:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

SPOT
"The engineer for many of these aformentioned albums, SPOT, is a barback in Austin, TX and has never been fully componsated for for all his work engineering or performing on these albums" needs a citation, dontcha think?

Caliban23 06:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The entire article could use citations. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I Agree, how do we verify this claim of money owed? Jcolter 19:01, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

SST Article
As an editor at Crawdaddy!, and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting the link to this article on the entry page. But I thought it might be useful for editors looking for sources on SST (and it was written by legendary LA punk critic Danny (Shredder) Weizmann). I appreciate your time. 1986 Asst. Editor, Crawdaddy! FenderRhodesScholar | Talk 17:25, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

still active.. sort of
they still seem to be active in the form of taking youtube videos down -.-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNDGLNqe3U

"GTA IV San Andreas (San A... This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including: SST Records Inc.''"

--84.62.175.232 (talk) 02:17, 6 August 2011 (UTC)