gruggni
Oxygen Gets You High
join:2003-07-28
Corpus Christi, TX
| Re: RIAA's action will backfire only 4%
The rest of the money goes to the studios and record companies . Artists make majority of their money from live shows and merchandise. The CD sales pay for the recording studios to make the digital recording, and the rest goes to promotions, marketing, LEGAL FEES. The record company pays for the recording and all the marketing and when a CD is sold, the money goes to pay off the artist's debt to the record company, since they front the cash to make an album. If CD sales do bad, the artist suffers, because they have to pay the record companies back. Now if there was a cheaper way to make digital recordings (it's really cheap to make a digital recording these days) artists can sell CD's straight to the fans (websites) instead of going thru the Record Companies to do it for them.
Why are CD prices so high? Because the recording studios charge so much to produce an album. You have to pay off the artist's managers, album producers, and they get their money before the artists do. The artists are just performers. If artists are going to make money then they need to either make their own record company or build their own recording studio. Then there's packaging, distribution and marketing, still gotta pay for that. Need it copyrighted, hire a copyright lawyer and get the music copyrighted. When people share music, the artist's aren't the only people losing money. Of course bands can still perform live and make money back. If you really want to help artists out, buy a ticket to their shows. |
