welcome back to the report i'm nice guys are trying not to go to los angeles and talk with thomas cole naki lead singer guitarist and songwriter streetlight manifesto thomas welcome to the kaiser report thank you i thomas on your website you recently wrote streetlight manifesto proudly itself explain it's a very complicated situation obviously i'll try to sum it up we are like a lot of other musicians out there frustrated with the way that that a record label and record industry in general has been treating us and you know obviously our concern is to be our priority is to be successful as a band and it's not to get a record on any sort of charts nor is it even to sell x. amount of records which seem to be the goals of the record labels both large and small you know independent and major labels so we figured since they're going to be screwing us over and then you know having us sending their lawyers over at us i have a time we try to dissent publicly we're going to go. allow and pretty much try to be the first band to sell zero records so we kind of announced a boycott we asked our fans to n