Exhibit your work in huge london record store

[Sash]

This store clerk has shown a lot of initiative and interest in gussying up his work place, and he should be applauded for it.

[DRG]

Should see you in London or Liverpool though right? huh? huh?

I will be in both those places, so yes!

[luxluxlux]

Dear poster makers.
Thanks for tearing me a new one.
I was naive and maybe foolish.
Obv I did ask my boss and she said she wouldn't spare any cash for this...ofcourse she said no but said if you wanna go ahead and ask the artists then go ahead. So I did.
Yeah HMV is a poor state. It's not really that funny. Sure I love Rough Trade etc but once were gone there will be no high street store selling music and movies.
We have a bunch of poster frames in-store so i was planning on 'borrowing' them for the posters. I realise that might have read strange that i can afford the frames but not the art.
I am no trying to scam anyone I just naively thought this would be good exposure...even if some of you think HMV is lame-stream store.
I'm aware probably none of you guys are in much of a position to be handing out free prints.
This was just an idea to get the store looking good and hopefully giving some light to new great art.

That is all.

[RichieGoodtimes]

Did you get the package I sent?

[alexfugazi]

You meanies hurt his feelings.

[strawberryluna]

Dear poster makers.
Thanks for tearing me a new one.
I was naive and maybe foolish.
Obv I did ask my boss and she said she wouldn't spare any cash for this...ofcourse she said no but said if you wanna go ahead and ask the artists then go ahead. So I did.
Yeah HMV is a poor state. It's not really that funny. Sure I love Rough Trade etc but once were gone there will be no high street store selling music and movies.
We have a bunch of poster frames in-store so i was planning on 'borrowing' them for the posters. I realise that might have read strange that i can afford the frames but not the art.
I am no trying to scam anyone I just naively thought this would be good exposure...even if some of you think HMV is lame-stream store.
I'm aware probably none of you guys are in much of a position to be handing out free prints.
This was just an idea to get the store looking good and hopefully giving some light to new great art.

That is all.

I appreciate your intent, I do. I think that you also need to realize that a poster is a HUGE business card, so every one of our posters *is* exposure. As working artists, I'm not sure how the urban legend started that any hard working artist can and wants to send their work for free to someone they don't know, to somewhere they've never been, and to pay for the shipping to that unknown place and person to boot. So, to quote Billy Delicious: "You want me to do you TWO favors?"

If a record store is in such precarious financial straits that they can't afford say, $300 - $500 for a shit ton of decor for 15-25 rock posters from contemporary artists, it sounds like the place might not be open in a year or two. What kind of "exposure" is that then for the artist?

It's not that people are necessarily ripping you a new one for sport, it's that we all too often get asked these kinds of "favors" by strangers, with literally no benefit to the artists at all, and all of the benefit going to a for-profit entity, such as the one for which you work.

Artists who are artists for a full time living bust their asses and hustle 24/7, that's the only way to keep our heads above water. And yet, we get asked for freebies like as if we were born with silver spoons in our mouths. It gets old, and it get frustrating. The "can I have stuff for free / great exposure?" vs. "I want to pay you what your craft is worth" request ratios are out of whack.

[farleypig]

i think the fact that the term 'starving artist' has been around so long, has made it so people think we WANT to starve as much as we feel the urge to create. but just like the rest of the population, we have mortgages and babies and bills and need to put food in our bodies so we don't die.

and truly - pretty much anything you write on this forum will assure that you are ripped a new one. someone will probably go after me because i am a girl and said the word 'baby'. have at it boys.

[lil_tuffy]

You're a baby, baby.

[Chef Ferrari]

No one puts HMV in a corner !!!

[lil_tuffy]

Does your record store have appendicitis?