On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Rusty Householter wrote:
quoted 4 lines Warp is rich? Hee hee... Is anyone really rich enough? It's rhetorical>
> Warp is rich? Hee hee... Is anyone really rich enough? It's rhetorical
> really.
>
Warp is doing OK. Warp is still independent, and from all reports aims
to stay that way for the forseeable future.
As someone who has a small label, I can say from first hand that an operation
like Warp is NOT making big bucks. Everything the big three media
conglomerates do, take about 4 zeros off the end and you get Warp. A
huge hit for warp sells 50k copies? Sony loses more copies to shoplifting
than that every month.
There are very few people in electronic music really making a living
from it. I program computers for a living, and I bet I make more money
than a significant percentage of the Artists on Warp. And even the
most popular artists on their artist likely make less than your dentist.
I buy a lot of Warp releases. If you like the music you should too. I
have zero patience for something-for-nothing leeches.
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