What do the artists have to say in all this?!
And yet, as someone who doesn't really download songs, and doesn't feint at the $15 price tag for a cd, I feel I am pretty objective about the whole quandry. So, this is the umpteenth article I've read on here that beats this same horse. It uses many convincing numbers to tell how evil the record co's are and how impoverished the musicians become under the evil empire and how the downtrodden consumers are getting taken. What I sense underneath it all is people who get much of their music for "free" trying to justify that behavior. Have the record companies behaved perfectly through all this? Probably not, they are acting like big corporations and beauracracies do-they are protective of the status quo and act in their interests. They tend to be bloated with layer after layer of employees, all trying to protect their slice of the pie.............just once I'd like to hear how the artist's feel about all this. Put up an article from the artist's perspective and let's hear what they have to say. They are the important cog in this wheel, imho. I can't sing, and I can play about 5 chords on a guitar......so I am motivated to buy musician's services. Things like amazon, myspace, youtube, and artist's personal websites are all things that are good about the industry, things I like about the industry. Frankly, I could care less about what happens to big corps like Sony........I do care what happens to artists and musicans as they make my world a bit better place to be.......can the musicians make a living the way things are going? Since the big beef here is that the record corps get $10 and the musicians get 50 cents on each disc, would you pay $15 a disc if the numbers were reveresed- the artist got $10 and the record co gets 50 cents?!
