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> Musicians are entrepreneurs. We are essentially partners with the labels, and should be treated that way. There's no reason that Byrne and other musicians sh
by hackuser 11y ago
> Musicians are entrepreneurs. We are essentially partners with the labels, and should be treated that way.
There's no reason that Byrne and other musicians shouldn't earn as much as they can, but let's try to remember that musicians are artists. I seem to remember many of those disliking record labels for imposing onto their art the desires of commerce.
- aikah 11y ago> but let's try to remember that musicians are artists. Well according to HN musicians should be artist, developer,sys-admin, graphic designer,sells-man, accountant,lawyer all at the same time because "evil labels". And if they can't do all these things well they shouldn't be paid fairly for their art because they didn't try hard enough ...