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quoted 6 lines Why all the rage against record labels? Is it just because people want

>Why all the rage against record labels? Is it just because people want >things for free? > >I don't know about you, but I like living in a society where artists can >sometimes make a living just making art. I'll chip in a measly $12 for a >CD, if it means I'm giving an artist time to be prolific.

That's great, but the printed/painted art world experiences the same thing as the music world -- oversaturation, and lots of crap. When's the last time you purchased an original piece of art that was the only one of its kind? The argument against music-as-art is that, sure, there are people who do it purely for artistic reasons, but there's no real limitation to the music itself. It's pressed and there ya go, as many CD's as demand or our pockets allow. While I'm all for giving the artist money, I also understand that for the CD to get in my hands as a non-unique item, I have to pay everyone else who made it happen. Rarely is it just the artist, but sometimes it is. When you buy music from a chain of people that are agreeable, like most small labels, you don't feel ripped off if you pay $15 bucks, especially if it's good music. When you buy something from a large corporation that churns out hundreds of artists, well, you might like the music, but you know that the artist is getting a few cents on the CD, if that, for your purchase. So it's not so much that people are anti-label. They're anti-evil-label. derek ------- eggytoast.com ------- coming soon: eggtastic.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org