(TV) Most of Verlaine's royalties derive from Canadian cassette sales to Eric Veilette

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Regarding unreliability of record company sold units:
	Boston Rock (BR): What have you been doing with yourself? 
TV: I guess it must have seemed like a long time since the first album, huh? Some people spend two years between records. I'm always working on stuff. I guess I've just been living my life, sort of working all the time, getting ideas ... 
BR: Did Elektra make you even more wary of this business? 
TV: Well to this day I don't know what those records sold. It took a long time to get off Elektra although it was easy to get another deal. I was supposed to do three records for Elektra and they didn't want to let me go. It took a year to get off. The latest Elektra accounting report said that one cassette has sold in Canada in the last six months! 
BR: Why didn't you turn to an independent after that experience? 
TV: Well, you know we started out with Ork Records. Most independents are worse, let me tell you. They're just these guys walking around picking your nose blah blah blah ... But that's not really fair - Rough Trade's a good one.
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