Iggy Pop album shuns 'humiliating' record labels They didn't want it. They didn't think they would make any money, they didn't think my fans would like it - very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person - but that's a different sort of person than I am. So he went ahead and put the album on sale online, as a CD on the French website vente-privee.com, and in digital form on several download platforms. Iggy Pop - real name, James Newell Osterberg - was lead singer of The Stooges, a 1960s-1970s garage rock band that influenced heavy metal and punk rock and whose live acts included Pop taking drugs, self-mutilating, verbally abusing the audience and leaping off stage. His best-known solo numbers include "Lust for Life," "I'm Bored" and "Real Wild Child." Though he will probably work with a major with the newly-reformed Stooges, Iggy Pop said as a solo artist he was unlikely to go back. "I've always had a very rough time in the big time music business," he joked. I got kicked off every label.