What do you think the labels should be doing?

Will.i.am: Record companies should be a tour company that sends the bands on the road and still puts the fuckin’ shits on the radio. The reason the song’s on the radio is so they can sell concert tickets and T-shirts. The labels should do research on the marketplace, and they should be the band’s merchandise company, going out and flooding the market and selling T-shirts. Billboard should have not just how many albums you sold, but how many fuckin’ T-shirts you sold, because that’s more money, and that’s my manager’s idea.

(via Rolling Stone)