And I'll wager you've never heard any of it. You just go "DERP NO LABEL = BAD AND NOIZES" and go about on your merry way, listening to Lady Gaga or Lady Antebellum or whatever other ACTUAL NOISE is being peddled to the unimaginative, insular masses.
The latter. The best art comes from people with life experiences, not the people who practice 2 hours a day and then sit on their asses the other 22.
Furthermore, I can assure you that most major-label artists have primary jobs outside of the industry, since such a tiny percentage of label artists earn sustainable money to begin with.
Ditto. Shills can't imagine a world where there are individuals who don't want to consume their all-important entertainment. Either they're "buying" it (actually "licensing it for home use") or they're "stealing" it (actually "committing noncommercial copyright infringement"), but either way they MUST be consuming it.
And any criticism of said industry and their heavy-handed tactics must come from the "pirates" who are "stealing" it, naturally.
...which would be the market losing interest and driving the company out of business. The potential for this type of failure is very much a part of the free market.
How exactly does "you can't hear my music unless you pay me" benefit the 98% of artists you're referring to? All the hustling in the world is going to convince someone to pay for something they haven't heard.
On the other hand, allowing them to download the music for free serves as an excellent form of promotion, since there is less of a risk in downloading the tracks. If you don't like them, delete them, and you've lost nothing, save for perhaps some monthly bandwidth.
You're overlooking an important point: If one person can code it, another can decode it.
"They are willing to pay to watch a $100m movie from those evil folks in Hollywood."
That number seems to be ever-diminishing. So-called "professional content" is not as irreplaceable in the hearts and minds of the public as most of the shills for it would like to think.
And how about when they practiced the songs together in their own space...do you think they paid copyright fees for that, or was that fair use?
Or do you just assume they never played the cover songs until they got entered the first pub they were booked at, and were just magically able to play cover songs immediately?
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The advances...which are 100% refundable out of (and only out of) a band's royalties until paid back...are exactly why bands DON'T make money from album sales.
Also: The label dictates how the advance is spent. The band only gets to spend what's left over...then make nothing in royalties until it's all paid back, assuming they can manage to sell about 800,000 or more albums.
"But their goal isn't to be great musicians, their goal is to make a living. They aren't there specifically for the art and the money will follow, they are there for the money and the art will follow."
Wow...please tell me you aren't one of those people who attacks CC-licensed musicians as "amateurs" and lionizes "professional content" instead? Because if so, that would make you a pretty serious hypocrite.
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Just admit you're wrong already. You're on increasingly shaky ground here.
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But then again, it's CC-licensed and not produced or distributed by a label, so I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't heard of it.
Ahem.
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Furthermore, I can assure you that most major-label artists have primary jobs outside of the industry, since such a tiny percentage of label artists earn sustainable money to begin with.
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And any criticism of said industry and their heavy-handed tactics must come from the "pirates" who are "stealing" it, naturally.
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CLT had it right.
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Mea culpa.
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On the other hand, allowing them to download the music for free serves as an excellent form of promotion, since there is less of a risk in downloading the tracks. If you don't like them, delete them, and you've lost nothing, save for perhaps some monthly bandwidth.
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You're overlooking an important point: If one person can code it, another can decode it.
"They are willing to pay to watch a $100m movie from those evil folks in Hollywood."
That number seems to be ever-diminishing. So-called "professional content" is not as irreplaceable in the hearts and minds of the public as most of the shills for it would like to think.
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As does misinterpreting it. Remember who is ultimately in charge in this country.
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Or do you just assume they never played the cover songs until they got entered the first pub they were booked at, and were just magically able to play cover songs immediately?
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They why were they found not guilty at trial?
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Also: The label dictates how the advance is spent. The band only gets to spend what's left over...then make nothing in royalties until it's all paid back, assuming they can manage to sell about 800,000 or more albums.
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Wow...please tell me you aren't one of those people who attacks CC-licensed musicians as "amateurs" and lionizes "professional content" instead? Because if so, that would make you a pretty serious hypocrite.
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