Any kind of art music is a labor of love, if you want to make big $$ in
the US, you have to be in rap/rnb, its the only part of the industry that
makes money. My girlfriend hangs out with Snoop Dog, and he certainly
isn't hurting on record sales, ultimately an indie artist only needs 5,000
fans to buy 1 cd a year to make a living from just producing, but that's
much easier said than done. Snoop is definitely the exception, and his
secret is that he produces his own work, so he does everything very low
budget compared to other major label artists like say Pink, who are stuck
with a million different people having points on them. The problem is that
the majors are seriously alienating the everyday fans, instead of going
after mp3, they should be creating a hi-fi dvd audio standard, so you can
have a handheld dvd player which plays back at 24 bit, 96000Hz, mp3s are
definitely NOT a "perfect digital copy", what the labelsx fail
to understand is that p2p programs are slow and more than half the time
you lose the connection before you can finish downloading the track
anyway.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, omz wrote:
quoted 46 lines In a message dated 7/30/2002 3:50:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
> >In a message dated 7/30/2002 3:50:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
> >jpklein@telocity.com writes:
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> >> >>as has recently been ascertained, the subscribers of this list are
> >> >>collectively spending an astronomical sum of money buying new records
> >> >>and cds each month. how is it possible that there's nothing to say
> >> >>about them?
> >
> >what i'd like to know is why the labels and artists don't seem to be making
> >any money
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> Yeah, seeing as how Mike Paradinas commented recently that Planet-Mu
> stuff sells on average around 800 cd copies per release, it makes me
> wonder if anyone buys Mu stuff that's NOT on this list...
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