Grumpy Old Geeks Topics Unpaid creative work Topic Unpaid creative work 8 mentions in 3 episodes The hosts discuss requests to republish writing without payment and to perform speculative work. Mentions 135: The Satchel of Life Nov 6, 2015 5:46 they don't want to pay for it 9:44 being asked for free spec work 89: Better Safe than Sony Dec 19, 2014 0:39 asking them to come out and perform, which is lovely, except they don't want to pay them 3:35 I've given my services away to a ton of people 4:13 set your price at a fair rate out of the gate 2: No, we are still not the media. Mar 29, 2013 33:06 learn the songs. Come play with us. We'll give you beer and let you hang out backstage. 36:23 Let's have 50,000 of our fans make album art and we'll pick the one that we actually like 36:39 It's spec work. It's total spec work