Originally Posted by
"Clevor" Angel
With the utmost DISrespect I say F*$k the recording companies and all the musicians who don't back me up. In my eyes a musician makes music because they love too and want people to hear it and enjoy it, right?
What ?
Do you enjoy your job ?? Does that mean your employer shouldnt' pay you to do it ??
Most artists/bands have already spent years and years playign clubs and small gigs to GET the record deals. Years with very little income, sleeping in bus/van, drivign 10 hours to a gig etc etc
( We're talkign real music here, not the manufactured bands and solot "artists" )
[quote] Well, to put it in perspective, once you have 10,000,000 in savings at the bank, even at 1 percent interest your making 100,000 a year, well alot of these people have made 200,000,000 off one album, even if only one quarter of that is in the bank at .5% interest they're STILL making 250,000 a year sitting on their ass. And they're complaining about the pennies they only see half of from CD sales! If a star gets up and tells people not to pirate because its stealing that just shows their true worthless character. My parents combined don't make 70,000 a year![/quote
Fine for the 0.1% of artists who get that chance - BTW $200M album sales equates to about 10-15M to the artists !!!!
Just Venting... but, excluding the cursing, am I wrong?
Not if you only do it to the excessevely rich ones - but they tend to be the excessively UNTALENTED too, so why woudl you WANT their album ??
But you are 100% wrong for 99% of the artists out there who need the cash !
The profits of the record companies is excessive, but having known a label which tried to help up-coming bands there is also a huge risk employed. So just as with the artists, not all record companies and labels are the same.
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'