Throbbing Gristle: D.O.A. (Industrial)
Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 23 December 1978
THE UNDERGROWTH OF pop...Take the mechanics of the situation as being something like this: you have a multi-million dollar industry, which has established channels whereby the product which makes the money comes out. This industry also creates and manipulates a ready-made and HUGE audience.
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