Dear music industry
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- jpea0
ok, i have no feelings for any business involved in the RIAA... first off, music is not music anymore (actually, that mostly changed in the early 60's with single writing).... anyway, i guess here is where i'm coming from:
my sis has a rec contract with a major label. she made her 2nd album and "they" bought it from her and were distributing it for her. Trouble was, that when she was on her own, she'd pay about .40 cents a copy and anything she sold she could keep the profits. this all went back to paying for the creation of the cd (recording, pressing, artwork, etc..) and also went towards her new studio time and such..anyway, so the rec company bought her 2nd album, and started distributing it for her. now she has to pay $6 a copy for her own disk in order to sell it at shows. keep in mind, the record company doesn't have much overhead here from her. she recorded it on her own, she paid all the studio time already, and the did all the publicity for her album. "they", so far, have put almost NOTHING into her marketing of the album nor her touring expenses...
anyway, long story made a little shorter, she is dropping THEM and moving to a new label that will actually spend money on marketing her and she also won't have to pay crazily high prices for her own cd.
RIAA is just a front for the music biz in all it's glory... it's glory of ripping off the artists, ripping off the consumers, and ripping off the ideal of music as a beautiful creation.
RIAA can eat crap.
they can take all their albums and shove 'em up their ass, cause they're not helping any artists other than the top .3% aleady on top.nuf' said.