What is your opinion on the following?

[FuSoYa]

Hello there Toby,

How are you? I'm writing to you from The Sentimentalist, a NY-based
music quarterly with worldwide distro. Just wanted
to let you know we have sent your Kayo Dot to one of our reviewers for
a possible review
in our Feb. issue. Please let me know if you'd like to see our
indie
ad rates. We're printing 1000 extra copies of the Feb. issue to use as
giveaways at SXSW in Austin this March. Our regular circulation is now
25,000 worldwide. We can guarantee the review will appear if you decide
to reserve some space with us .

Hope to hear from you soon--we can e-mail over those rates any time.

Thanks,

Cleo

 

[FuSoYa]

my opinion: i guess that smiley emoticon makes it all okay

 

[Steve]

almost half-ass blackmail?

 

[goatschool]

space, meaning, ad space?

i've never heard of the magazine. i suspect the kayo dot review, along with the rest of the thing, will be found covering the floor tiles of whatever showspace they leave a stack in.

 

[FuSoYa]

they're a glossy mag though. The Virgin store across the street carries it.

 

[goatschool]

and by that, i mean, that's what always happens to alt-zines left in clubs. i've never seen someone walk out of a club with one of them.

 

[goatschool]

okay i'm out of the loop.

 

[FuSoYa]

no honestly i had never heard of them before either.

 

[Nut Butter]

I dunno 'bout you, but I don't react well to conditional favours...

 

[Nut Butter]

The smilie probably just means that "Cleo" feels shitty about having to enforce company policy...

 

[Steve]

see how much they charge you, then try to get tzadik to pay.

 

[goatschool]

see, i would guess cleo is the sole employee, or close to it.

 

[avi]

there's so many people at SXSW trying to get you to take their publication/promo crap. sure, someone "important" might see it, but why bother? most of it ends up as garbage. no fucking way I'd bow to that blackmail, especially without reading said review first.

I went to SXSW last year. there's seriously TONS of crappy mags being pushed at you. and they're all chock full of ads.

 

[avi]

and 1000 copies at SXSW ain't shit.

 

[goatschool]

and 1000 copies at SXSW ain't shit.

agreed.

 

[FuSoYa]

I'm in a bind as to whether to react based on how I feel, or to calm the fuck down and be polite.

 

[FuSoYa]

By the way of course it's out of the question that I'd even consider their offer. I'm basically wondering if everyone finds it as completely offensive and despicable as I do.

 

[Nut Butter]

Yes.

 

[goatschool]

yeah. absolutely.

but not worth blowing steam over. that message is laughable.

 

[avi]

be polite dude. don't fly off the handle over this stuff - it's not like the dude crapped on your mother or something.