yep exactly - but the real kicker is, labels are not making profits :) at
least not the majors - courtney love wrote this long tirade, the jist I got
from it was there are too many middle men - the business is run in such a
way that nobody profits in a big way
of course, maybe SHE should learn how to live with 40,000 dollars - I've
lived on less than 20 for years and I don't get to run around doing shows
every fuckin day
quoted 6 lines if music is so goddamned expensive, yet musicians are so> > if music is so goddamned expensive, yet musicians are so
> > goddamned poor... then where the hell is all the money going?
>
> Well that's rhetorical. (the record companies)
>
> I know musicians who recorded their own CDs and built up a regular
following
quoted 1 line to sell to, who later signed in order to make it "big." They made less> to sell to, who later signed in order to make it "big." They made less
money
quoted 13 lines selling a hundred thousand cds through a label than when they just sold> selling a hundred thousand cds through a label than when they just sold
> 500-1000 themselves to their fans.
>
> -matT
> nashville.tn
>
> np://Headz 2/Source Direct/The Silent Witness/
>
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