BOYCOTT CONQUER THE WORLD RECORDS!!!
Darrell (s e t s f i r e)
Well...CTW (Mike Warden) is currently pressing the BSF / JMN split 12" without our permission. To
make a long story short, when we decided to do a record with Mike, he was pretty broke, and needed
us to pay for the recording and the mastering which we did. We paid for ALL studio costs, recording
costs, mastering costs, hell, we even pay for the reel and the DAT that we recorded on. What I'm
saying is that we paid for EVERYTHING. All mike had to do was print covers (which he couldn't do
without printing them on the inside of Culture covers).
After the record had been out for about a year, Mikes participation got to be less and less to the
point that we didn't hear from him for about 6 months. We called, wrote and called some more, and we
could not get in touch with him. As we were at that point getting ready to tour, we needed more
records, but we couldn't get in touch with Mike to get them. In addition, there have been TONS of
kids who we've ended up giving free records to because they sent money to Mike, and never got a
record. Anyway, at this point we decided that we needed to find someone else who was willing to put
the record out. We enlisted the help of 2 friends (Brent and Jason) from State College, PA who were
into the idea. That is how the 6 song CD on The Magic Bullet / Rosepetal came to be.
This began the process of attempting to get back the DAT from Mike so that Brent and Jason could
press their CDs. We still after many conversations with Mike have yet to get our DAT tape back from
him. As you recall, it IS our property, not Mike's, and there is really the root of all of this.
Mike has continually refused to return our DAT to us, and has continually refused to stop repressing
the record that we paid for. That record is Mike's only in that it has a CTW logo on it, we paid for
the recording and everything else involved in the music that it contains. In addition WE own the
copy right on that music, not Mike.
It comes to this: Mike has made it very clear to all of us that he has full intentions of repressing
the record. He has advertised for it in zines, and many people have seen him selling it in the
recent past. This is being done for ONE reason and one reason only. Because Mike knows he can make
money off of the record and the controversy that surrounds it. He's not doing it because he believes
in us, or because he even necessarily believes in the message that our side of the record contains,
he is doing for financial gain.
The tactics used by Mike Warden throughout this entire ordeal smart tremendously of big business
tactics used by major labels. We don't have the money or resources to go after him legally, so he
knows that there is nothing that we can do to him in that department, and he is counting on the fact
that word of this travesty won't get around too much to hurt his "market share".
Basically the facts in this incident can be summed up in several points:
- We paid for absolutely every expense related to our contribution to that record, and we own its
copyright.
- We made many efforts to get in touch with Mike to try to settle this without having to go to this
length.
- Mike in his own words thinks that we are "full of shit" and that we don't really stand for
anything that we talk about in our records, yet he still wants to do this record.
- Mike knows that he can make a profit off of this record.
It is for these reasons why we are asking you to boycott Mike Warden and Conquer The World Records,
and in doing so send a message that big business tactics, and greed will not be supported in the
hardcore / punk community.
Thank you for reading. Action and reaction is now in the hands of you the reader.
Darrell
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Darrell (s e t s f i r e)
dar...@boysetsfire.com
http://www.boysetsfire.com
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Mywar666
>All mike had to do was print covers (which he couldn't do
>without printing them on the inside of Culture covers).
>
>
I'm ashamed to have a record with such a shitty cover in my collection. It's
ALMOST as bad as our split 7" with C.R.'s cover... but not quite.
-Artie Philie (Milhouse. Worm Collapse. MDFP. the Black People.)
p.o. box 184, Babylon, NY 11702
516.888.6536
"Why must I always deal with non-entities?" -Adolph Hitler
Corey Barr
You should beat him up and take the tape.