{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Punk Rock - By Way of Capitalism","description":"Shawn Stern didn\u2019t set out to become a Punk Rock Icon.  When he - along with his two brothers - created the (now) seminal band Youth Brigade back in 1980, all they really wanted to do was play music and hang with friends.  Punk Rock, he quickly realized, was the perfect venue for that lifestyle, \u201cWe (could) play music, we don\u2019t have to be really good,\u2026 and you could talk about the problems - that really still exist - that (pop music) won\u2019t talk about.\u201d  But Punk Rockers need to eat.  So, when the major labels couldn\u2019t care less about distributing BYO\u2019s albums, when club owners didn\u2019t want to book the band, and when promoters wouldn\u2019t return his phone calls - Shawn went DIY.  Again with his brother, \u201cThis is a family affair,\u201d Shawn cashed in his Bar Mitzvah Bonds (in the process screwing Bank of America) and started his own label - BYO Records. \u201cIt\u2019s not rocket science, We learned early on how businesses work without ever taking a business class, I don't know to me it's just logical.\u201d  Suddenly, Shawn was more than Youth Brigades lead singer, he was an entrepreneur, de-facto CEO, and both President and CFO of his own company. In this episode of 21KHZ, How Shawn Stern managed to run a punk rock label and still keep his soul. ","author_name":"21khz: The Art of Money In Music","author_url":"http:\/\/www.21khz.com","html":"