Well.....
a little patience goes a long way
chris hedges did a viddy on it with someone from san fran
“Some balls are held for charity
Good for you. Its was a prof.
no one will watch your youtube videos
ing over more and more people, benefitting fewer and fewer.
Finally something we can agree on. Lol.steven tyler decries record executives ripping off musicians. him and smokey robinson testify in front of congress.
chuck d and prince consider record contracts slavery. macklemore made a song about it.
capitalism
a musicians should get the most profits, followed by the workers and everyone else.
steven tyler decries record executives ripping off musicians. him and smokey robinson testify in front of congress.
chuck d and prince consider record contracts slavery. macklemore made a song about it.
capitalism
a musicians should get the most profits, followed by the workers and everyone else.
You want companies to exist to make CD's for you to listen to, or put content online, to promote it to make you aware, but to give the lion's share to the artist? Musicians make the bulk of their money giving concerts, and people like Steven Tyler are anything but poor. Guess they would prefer to do a lot less live performances and just watch the money roll in from recordings. What they should do is create their own record label, invest in studios, equipment, distribution chains. Oh, wait, that would mean risking their own money. Why do that when you can let others risk their money for your benefit?steven tyler decries record executives ripping off musicians. him and smokey robinson testify in front of congress.
chuck d and prince consider record contracts slavery. macklemore made a song about it.
capitalism
a musicians should get the most profits, followed by the workers and everyone else.
That's an entirely disingenuous post.
ing insane. Totally insane. They're essentially trying to take away or share in, all the income streams an artist has outside of their record sales, since the label's old business model has failed/been forever altered by technology, and is not done changing yet. They're undoubtedly trying to vacuum up the last few billion from a dying industry that will finally empower the artists, once the full disruption potential of the business is realized and social media becomes fully ubiquitous and the product marketing algorithms make traditional mass advertising totally obsolete.
steven tyler decries record executives ripping off musicians. him and smokey robinson testify in front of congress.
chuck d and prince consider record contracts slavery. macklemore made a song about it.
capitalism
a musicians should get the most profits, followed by the workers and everyone else.
hes probably been screwed over by the industry himself.
so youre saying chuck d, prince, and steven tyler criticism about the record labels is wrong...
the thing about vanextan is he usually sides with the powerful, not the poweless.That's an entirely disingenuous post.
While the record companies provide a valuable service to artists, although they're far less important than they used to be, they've been ripping the musicians off since the day the 1st dollar was made.
You act as though they're taking all this risk, and while that's partially true, realistically I'd argue they're splitting the risks with the artist, who ultimately pays the labels back in full for distribution, promotional duties and marketing, cover art and design, and studio time, before the artist sees a nickel. Taking this into account, along with the fact that tons of the contracts have been challenged in court and ruled in the artists favor, and it's been known that they've preyed upon literal starving artists for a long long time. (Don't be the guy that takes the record labels side. There's always one in every crowd, but you don't have to be that one - it's a conscious decision for you to look like a doosh on this issue.)
That's why this post-napster era in music has been such a renaissance, much of the independent music put out since 2000 has rivaled the best music ever made, and boutique labels with large scale distribution deals have taken over the rest of the game, and paced the indies on quality all along the way, while taking major artists away from the big labels by giving them fair deals and creative control, plus ownership of their publishing and masters.
The major labels have tried to stick their claws into artists even deeper, as their once lucrative record sales have dried up, and their revenue streams shrunk or vanished altogether - they've begun signing naive, poor, young artists to all-inclusive deals that include their likeness, merchandising, record sales/downloads, streaming fees, ownership of the masters, and a percentage of both publishing and live gates...that is
I didn’t say they were wrong about record labels. I said they are not speaking against capitalism at a net worth of over $130 mil.
