"I bring this up only because my concern is of course for young musicians who go out there and tour, they're holding down jobs, they take two weeks off their work and they go around the country. Sometimes they're sleeping in their van, sometimes they're staying in really, really dodgy so-called motels and it's dangerous and it's really unacceptable and it really has to stop."
"We have as a band decided that, due to basically the economics of the music industry, that we have to curtail our headline touring business. It has, thanks to the thievery of the record industry, made touring very, very difficult."
Garbage announced their fall North American "Happy Endings" tour will be their final full-scale stateside outing. The band blamed music-industry economics and "the thievery of the record industry" for making large-scale headline touring financially untenable. The tour began September 3 in Orlando and runs through November 14 at Corona Capital in Mexico City. Concerns were raised about young musicians who tour while holding down jobs, sometimes sleeping in vans or staying in unsafe motels, creating dangerous and unacceptable conditions. The band described the tour experience as a fantastic privilege and expressed appreciation for loyal fans while noting this may be the last tour of this size.
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