The meat of that piece of news
At MIDEM Sunday, Klepfisz acknowledged discussions with the labels were not easy.
"A colonoscopy is relatively painless in comparison," he told participants.
Later, Klepfisz told The Associated Press that he had reached agreements on the terms of the deals, though some deals had yet to be formally signed.
Privately, some recording industry executives said Monday the botched launch likely wouldn't factor in final decisions on whether to sign off on the service.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer". F Zappa