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Created: 04/13 07:24 am
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What's your opinion on downloading music?
This is becoming such a big debate. Are you for or against being able to download music?
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RejectedSoul At 09:37 am
s3nt3nc3d
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No, not entirely like you said...if they wanna stay around for more years, then yes, the sales are needed, but what you said was "you have to remember bands make a living from the music we buy. and they have exspectations on how they live... to live up to. if we dont buy cds they dont make as much money and they cant afford to pay their stupid managers and tours and shit..."
That's not entirely true...the bands don't receive their paychecks from cd sales. So they don't make a living from what we're buying. They're making a living from what the label is paying them. Of course, if we don't buy cd's, their label will probably drop them. They will not, however, have any problem paying for their "stupid managers and tours and shit"...the label pays for that, not them. So yes, for the most part you're right...but it works a little differently than you described it.
-Mr. Technical
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In response to
RejectedSoul At 08:21 pm
s3nt3nc3d
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Actually...that's not exactly how it works out...
Signed bands sign a contract for so long where the label agrees to pay them x amount of dollars every month as a salary. The label gets the final call on everything...what songs go on the album, what songs become singles, etc...and they pay for all the expenses as well as the costs for getting onto a tour, etc. All money from the CD sales, touring, etc goes back to the label, not tha band (the band usually gets a small cut off the cd sales...in most cases 10%. I'm not sure what they get, if anything, for touring). Basically ALL the money we spend goes to paying the label back for everything they've spent on the band...and then when sales are as high as the label is striving for them to be, with the cd prices being overinflated, they become filthy rich off us. The band doesn't make much less if CD sales suck...BUT...if they're too low, once their contract is up, they'll be searching for a new label since most labels aren't going to renew the contract.
I've been all over the music scene since I graduated from highschool...so I know lots of bands in the industry plus a couple of the bands I've hung with are now signed so I got some inside sources of how everything works. lol
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