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Re: I will ALWAYS rip you off Mr. Michael Greene said by Pirate515:
Regarding the cost of producing a CD, one of my ex-coworkers used to have a band of his own. They sold their CDs at about $5 each. And these were not recordings made at their garage and then recorded using a consumer-level burner, but professionally recorded at the studio, complete with cover design containing a load of pictures, info on each member of the band, lyrics to all the songs and lots of other stuff (professionally designed too), and then professionally replicated as well. According to him, he still made quite a profit selling his stuff.
Perhaps you forgot to include the greed factor (that usually makes up 50-75% of the cost of a CD) from that list of yours...
So, if this band could do that why don't others? Why do they sign with major labels? Could it be because of the "greed" factor you mentioned?
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| FYI, there actually are many other bands that do just that.
As for the greed factor, do you really think that artists are paid a lot more when they sign up with a label? If so, I am sorry to disappoint you, but what artists make are pennies compared to what labels pick up. And on top of that, they must give up copyrights to their own work. All their songs now belong to the label, and they could not republish them on their own, or else they'll face a huge lawsuit. Sounds like they are getting majorly screwed over to me.
On the other hand, if you are planning to become famous, going with a label is a good idea as you will never be able to promote yourself as well as they do. However, don't expect to be paid off in large amounts, the labels are not too eager to share the big bucks with you.
Speaking of my above-mentioned friend, his band did have an offer from a pretty famous label. They walked out the door as soon as they saw the contract. They chose to make slightly less but to retain their copyright, as fame was never their major goal.
BTW, did you ever wonder why so many artists do not renew their contracts with labels, and so many others eventually become actors or something else? I would not say that this is because of the big bucks that they made from their label.
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| This is what we call a market demand 12 - 25 year olds are making history by telling the music industery, this is what we want, we want to be able to download the music and own it digitaly! We want it to be transferabble to cd, mp3 player or whatever. The CD eara is now DEAD!!!
wow, and my little sister thinks the things in the movie hackers is real. stop pretending you are some cyber hero, you are the reason people charge so much for CD's, to recognize profit over top of the cost of recovery of theft. you are too lazy to pay for things that the majority of us pay for. if you think 15 bucks for a cd is too much, get a job. if you think a band selling cd's for 5 bucks is a great way to make a living, then guess what? move on with your life.
most artists enjoy making music, but there are incentives that drive some of them to love creating the music, and i assure you, a lavish lifestyle is not a perk ANY artist wants to give up.
your idols who sell 5 dollar cd's would turn on you in an instant if they were good enough to make it big, but they probably arent, because they cater to obscure little third rate wannabes like you. tell me, did you even pay your friend for his 5 dollar album? ill bet you cried til you got it for free, didnt you?
creativity isnt cheap, and i have no problem financing the lifestyle of ANY artist who makes music i enjoy. as for you, well - super size it, and yes, i want fries with that.
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