I want to know where I can get CD's made for $.25. Sign me up. I'd be making
a whole lot more money with that kind of manufacturing.
This argument pisses me off. Fuck, after all the manufacturing,
pre-production, marketing cost, tour support, shipping costs, overhead,
paying the artist royalties (cause we're crazy like that), mechanical
royalties, etc... we're not exactly killing it on the margins. We make a
bit, artist makes a bit, store makes a bit, distributor makes a bit. Is
15.98 list really so high (the list on our titles). What do you pay to eat a
good meal at a restaurant? How many drinks do you get at a bar for that?
What do you spend for an average evening out? Let's face it. The whole
argument exists because music is easily downloaded for free so all of a
sudden there is a comparative value attached to it. "Fuck it I can get it
for free, so I'm clearly being ripped off when I pay for it".
I think the music industry is fucking sketchy as all hell also, but I've
managed to carve out a comfortable living for myself and our artists where I
don't have to subscribe to most of that bullshit that swirls around. I agree
with a lot of what's being said here, but a lot of you got a lot of learning
to do in the field of economics and the fact that this current mess could
cause a nasty trickle down effect to the artist/labels you actually like.
I'm already having trouble getting as many records out there as I'd like to
because most of the stores are struggling and the budgets just aren't there
right now for a lot of stores to take chances on the smaller/interesting
shit. The irony being that that's the stuff that's selling right now as it's
supported by dedicated fans, but that's the situation. At the end of the
day, a lot of people will probably be fucked in the transition, but it's a
billion dollar industry that isn't going away it's just going to change up a
bit in how it operates.
Jeff
quoted 34 lines From: "Patrick Norris" <untitledartist@hotmail.com>
> From: "Patrick Norris" <untitledartist@hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:16:35 -0500
> To: IDM@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired Magazine,
> 2/2003
>
>
>> Fucking $18 for a CD that cost 25 cents to produce in mass quantities?
>
> Maybe I seem like a Bastard here, but, there only 25 cents for a c.d. if you
> pay the artist no money for his time and work and any extra engineers or
> mastering engineers gotta eat too. Your paying everyone who helped bring
> the disk to you, At least consider that. Many of my freinds are engineers
> at studios around the states and they don't make shit as it is...but yeah
> just let 'em starve. 'Cause you know the Label CEO's, they ain't gonna take
> pay-cuts. I don't think $ 18 is cool either but when you refuse to pay, you
> aint hurting the millionaire major label heads, you're hurtin' freinds of
> mine....
>
> I'm sure I'll get a severe tongue lashing for even mentioning this
>
> P
>
>
>
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