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Death Grips Gives Another Middle Finger To The Man

Whenever The Man strikes, Death Grips will strike back.

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Death Grips was always an odd band to be on a major label, and they haven't stopped kicking and screaming since the ink was dry on their Epic Records contract. When the label (aka The Man) tried to push their album back, they went ahead and leaked the thing themselves, erect penis on the cover of it and all. Come to think of it, the penis might have been what was holding the album up, but hey.

Today on the band's Facebook page, they leaked an email from Heath Kudler, Senior Vice President for the Business And Legal Affairs Department at Epic (aka, he is The Man), informing the band's manager Peter Katsis--who, for what it's worth, also managed Korn back in the day--that Epic would not be giving Death Grips any royalties from sales of No Love Deep Web since they didn't follow Epic's rules, and that the band was responsible for having the album pulled from any and all websites that it might have been posted on (including, amusingly enough, this post on our site). Note that the leaked screen shot also offers readers the telephone and fax number to Epic Records, because whoever did the leaking forgot to blur some stuff.

The letter claims that the album doesn't count towards their recording contract because, "Epic will not pay for an album that thousands of people have already downloaded." What Epic fails to realize is that some Epic intern with a what.cd download/upload ratio to maintain would have just leaked No Love Deep Web before it hit stores anyway, so Death Grips leaking their album only made themselves look cooler and Epic look even more like The Man. Which they are. If you needed further proof of Heath Kudler's lameness and dweeb-nosity, here is the entirety of his Twitter feed, which he started on January 5th, 2012 and quickly abandoned: