Yesterday, quite a few stories started surfacing about vendors at the Gathering of the Juggalos. In the midst of the bad press for Psychopathic Records this week, I wanted to wait until the story wasn’t so one-sided, and give Psychopathic a chance to respond to the allegations. That has happened, so let’s tackle the subject.
There are probably a dozen or so links that we have been sent, and all basically say the same thing: vendors haven’t been paid for their services from last month’s Gathering of the Juggalos. Most of the articles stemmed from a story from TheSouthern.com, which is the local Hardin County newspaper’s website. You can see that article here:
Juggalos vendors report short payments, bad checks @ TheSouthern.com
I don’t know if TheSouthern.com just couldn’t wait to report more bad press for the Gathering or what, but at least wait until the label who promotes the festival releases a statement about it! MLive.com was a little more responsible about it, and included the following statement from Psychopathic Records about it:
The Gathering of the Juggalos is a 100% independent music festival with no corporate sponsorship and putting on a five-day music festival this ambitious is a very time consuming and expensive process. Unfortunately, in our attempt to provide the best possible event for our fans, expenses exceeded estimates and expectations, which we had not previously planned for.
The company putting on the event, Juggalo Gathering, Inc., has no intention of turning its back on these financial obligations and is in the process of preparing a plan to take care of all vendors. We thank all of our vendors for their understanding.
You can read that full article right here. That article, among others, had statements from one vendor who said that waiting this long was pretty standard protocol. Others weren’t so understanding.
Now I know that attendance this year was lighter than usual, but being 14 years deep into this event, I’m sure all the details will be worked out on an individual basis. If anything else is reported about this subject, we’ll be sure to let you know. For now, you can see links to much of the subject’s coverage below.
Contributors:
Websites:
- Gathering of the Juggalos angers vendors with bad checks @ HuffingtonPost.com
- ICP Festival checks bouncing, say vendors @ KATU.com
- Psychopathic Records accused of not paying festival vendors @ MLive.com
- Psychopathic Records issues statement to vendors @ MLive.com
- GOTJ vendors report short payments, bad checks received @ TheSouthern.com
- Financial Fallout from Juggalo Gathering @ WPSDlocal6.com
- Juggalo festival checks bouncing, vendors say @ NYPost.com
Faygoluvers Comments
wonka69
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 10:17 am GMT -5 at 10:17 am
HA-HA !
Guest
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 12:01 pm GMT -5 at 12:01 pm
ICP get back on the road because these other strategizes do not appear to be paying off. The bottom line is if you put out a quality product, people will want it. Successful branding will only get you so far, you need content… and yes, you need to tour to make money.
Ubi
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 01:02 pm GMT -5 at 1:02 pm
i highly doubt these checks were directly from psychopathic most likely it was from the juggalogathering account or something of that nature and the funds ran lower then expected.
ICP is not broke lol. Saying Psy/ICP needs to Tour to make money is a no brainer J is recovering from knee surgery and i think shaggs just had something done to so expect to see them out soon, its really foolish to think thats why the vendors checks didn’t clear though.
Frog
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 03:58 pm GMT -5 at 3:58 pm
I guess they really do loose money on the gathering every year
YayYay
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 07:31 pm GMT -5 at 7:31 pm
lol Oh well. RIP Psychopathic. Your best days are behind you anyway. You’re a parody of what you used to be.
YayYay
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 07:32 pm GMT -5 at 7:32 pm
And by RIP I mean rest in piss since they pissed it all away. lolol
wonka69
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 09:26 pm GMT -5 at 9:26 pm
Juggalo Gatering Inc. might be out of money? Psy. might be losing money? but joe bruce and billy got million$ stashed away! no doubt!
86
Comment posted on Friday, September 20th, 2013 10:07 pm GMT -5 at 10:07 pm
15 years. 15 years I have been a Juggalo and I still have not been to a gathering. The attendance was light this year? Probably the same reason I give: too broke to make it. Oh, I can pay for a ticket, it’s getting there and back home that is the bitch of it.
Oh well. I still get to Des moines everytime they come through Iowa…
lynxtheclown
Comment posted on Saturday, September 21st, 2013 03:39 pm GMT -5 at 3:39 pm
Lets play a game….. Name ALL the Reasons a ban has left PSY……Give you a clue Money. Zug said money Esham Said Money ABK said Money Laval Said Money…. Also ICP said them self “Every time we hold a GOTJ we lose like 10k” So that alone be like 130k about….. Psy is going down the shitter No bands No Cds No Tours = NO MONEY pretty simple.
wonka69
Comment posted on Monday, September 23rd, 2013 09:44 pm GMT -5 at 9:44 pm
so… no comment from psy.? multi-millionaires that wont pay their bills? f/n richies!
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