anon_coward
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| Re: Artists never get the money anyway said by PolarBear  :Screw the RIAA and record companies; if I could buy a CD DIRECTLY from an artist and give said artist cash in his/her hand for it, I would. But I don't care to help a record company exec pay for his mansion in the hills or the Bimmer in his driveway. You're an artist. You make just enough to get by, paycheck to paycheck working 10 hours a day.
How do you afford to go to a studio? Where do you find the time without quitting your job? Well, the record company says "here, take a 50-500K cash advance, and come back in a year and show us what you've got."
That's a large gamble for someone to take on someone they just met and saw play. Would you? I wouldn't.
Without that money, a lot of good artists would be floating around nowhere, going from mediocre gig to mediocre gig instead of being in the spotlight. |
