04-04-2002, 11:27 PM
Quote:but don't you realize that the artist, on average, receives about $1 per CD? Of course, the money is in the publishing, but how many artists have publishing rights?agreed...
Sorry man, we'll just have to disagree on this one. I feel that there are too many companies in this world that screw millions of people everyday. If the Internet is my chance to screw them... I'm doing it.
And to answer your charge that by downloading it, I support a criminal enterprise... GO FUCK YOURSELF!!! The government you pay your taxes to is the biggest fucking criminal enterprise going, next to religion, that is.
but it's probably less than $1...
and YES, i have seen the music business from the "inside"... 99% of major labels rape the artist on actual record/CD/tape sales... As Spit said:
Quote:Um, most bands have their own publishing companies to hold their rights and file with ASCAP and BMI...like Dream Theater has Ytse Jams, Inc., Foo Fighters have Living Under a Rock Music, all wacky names you can find in your liner notes if you didn't dl all the music... over time however, they can lose their rights to their intellectual property, but that's what artists are fighting the record industry for nowBINGO!!!!
Who owns the rights to all The Beatles music? huh?.... anyone???, well, It's not Ringo or Paul...
I know (for a fact) that most bands make 90% of their money from merchandise & touring, not from record sales. Therefore, Fuck Lars Ulrich & anybody else who thinks like he does... I bought Metallica's "No Life 'Til Leather" demo tape, long before they got signed to Megaforce Records, and even longer before they moved to Electra... and if it weren't for people like me, who by making copies of the tape & giving them to my friends who in-turn made copies for their friends, I can almost promise you, that Metallica would not be where they are today. I've spent my CA$H on many concerts and merchandise over the years, but with the shit that Lars stirred up with Napster (and the like) destroyed a major of vein of the music scene of "Music for the people" or "We just want to make music for ourselves" ...now, they make "music for people TO BUY!!!"
That being said, I still support independent/local artists, but I have an incredibly hard time getting myself to pay for any album/cd/whatever from the Major Music Companies... In my humble opinion, there is no reason for anyone (record co. type person) that did not take an active part in the writing or recording of any music to be allowed to profit from it... I understand that it sometimes costs thousands of $$'s to record an album, but that money is usually made back within the first printing by Major Labels... the rest of the money made is ALL profit for Labels... I guess they need to re-coup all the losses from all those "suck-ass" bands the flood the market with... When the Major Music Industry starts putting out "Quality" records instead of "Quantity" records, then maybe I'll start paying for those records.... until then, I'll pillage the internet!!!
Edited By FNMoron on April 04 2002 at 6:31