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From:
Digital Cutup Lounge
To:
vis-you
Cc:
{[--idm--]}
Date:
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:57:28 +0800
Subject:
Re: [idm] copy protection (rant)
Msg-Id:
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vis-you wrote:
quoted 11 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 >to sell to, who later signed in order to make it "big." They made less money >selling a hundred thousand cds through a label than when they just sold >500-1000 themselves to their fans. >
This has been true of a couple of my friends as well... John -- John von Seggern DJ/producer Digital Cutup Lounge Hong Kong http://www.digitalcutuplounge.com