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The author's logic seems lacking. How would small labels continue to exist if no one ever paid for music? Small labels are no more immune to a fall in the music
by WiseWeasel 14y ago
The author's logic seems lacking. How would small labels continue to exist if no one ever paid for music? Small labels are no more immune to a fall in the music market than the large ones; probably less so. And how are musicians going to keep finding time to make music if they can never get paid for it? Why should they have to bus tables to pay for the privilege of entertaining you? The sense of entitlement in this post is a bit much for me.
- DanBC 14y agoMany people have no idea how the music industry works, or has worked, and this includes the small labels as well as the big labels. People think that concerts make money, or that merch makes money, or that royalties from being played on radio makes money. People don't really know how bands work - where does the money for instruments come from? Practice space? Recording demos? Studio time for recording stuff to be released? Engineering and production? Artwork? Then, if any money is made for the band how is it split up; how do you pay a drummer vs a bass player vs a singer song writer? So they think "this download is only a dollar, it's nothing really, they won't miss it." not knowing the effect that has on the artist.