yeah, and you wouldnt just loan some body your favourite pair of
nikes, addidas, vans, whatevers when they came up & asked you
would you? trainers? - what about jeans? why are levis charging
$100 for jeans they made 50 years ago? (well someone from japan
could probably answer that one...)
At 6:47 pm +0100 31/7/00, Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote:
quoted 32 lines been through it before, the manufactured cost of a record/CD is not the>been through it before, the manufactured cost of a record/CD is not the
>only cost to a record company. Yeah major labels suck and the
>dispursement of profit is ridicously, but that's not my fault and there's
>so much info out their these days that I can't feel sorry for anyone
>finding themselves in a bad deal. People regularly pay $100 for a pair of
>shoes with no problems, what do you think the real cost of those is.
>Boycott Nike for not giving their shoes away! Bloody mafia those shoe
>companies I tell ya.
>
>Jeff
>
>
>
> >>However not all artist want to, and don't lump the entire music
> >>industry under one big shitty umbrella.
> >
> >Last time I checked the entire music industry is still charging a big bundle
> >of Lizzys for a product that doesn't cost a big bundle of Benjamins to make.
> >Is there a label not charging 4-5 quid a 12" and 13-15 quid a cd? The fact
> >that some IDM artists aren't living the vida loca with their record deals is
> >unfortunate, but if their "work" isn't paying them enough they should
> >supplement it. This whole thing is a long time coming knee jerk to an
> >industry that is taking the piss.
> >
> >I know this argument is going in circles everytime it comes up. I guess
> >we'll see in 5-10 years which model works best for artist and customer (the
> >only vital parts in the process).
> >__________
>
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