Comment Re:Really good point (Score 1) 550
It's a tough place to be, I mean you like a band and want to support them but at the same time you don't want to support the RIAA. I think the best thing overall to do is not to give any of those people money. If you want information/music to be free the RIAA has to lose money and go out of business. Only way to do that is to stop giving it to them. The real musicians who love it will forge on.
Until there exists other ways to get descent marketing than through a record company I'm sure the artists will quickly change their ways, but as of now there is no alternative.
The Internet isn't enough, you need to be presented in other types of Media as well if you as band/artist is to "make" it in the business. The keyword is marketing and that can be secured with a record deal, but without it you need to be rich or have an extreme image to get noticed by you or me.
So if you are a starving artist with an opportunity to get a record deal that states that you will get TV-intreviews, radio-time, a pro team that secures that the sound is optimal on stage for the cost of X% of the income at break-even. What would you do? Put you're music on mp3.com or make you're own band site or go for the deal?
I salute the artists that go their own ways to secure their music and tries to get the upper hand against the record companies, but I completely understand why some of them "sleeps with the devil".
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hobbymusician
Until there exists other ways to get descent marketing than through a record company I'm sure the artists will quickly change their ways, but as of now there is no alternative.
The Internet isn't enough, you need to be presented in other types of Media as well if you as band/artist is to "make" it in the business. The keyword is marketing and that can be secured with a record deal, but without it you need to be rich or have an extreme image to get noticed by you or me.
So if you are a starving artist with an opportunity to get a record deal that states that you will get TV-intreviews, radio-time, a pro team that secures that the sound is optimal on stage for the cost of X% of the income at break-even. What would you do? Put you're music on mp3.com or make you're own band site or go for the deal?
I salute the artists that go their own ways to secure their music and tries to get the upper hand against the record companies, but I completely understand why some of them "sleeps with the devil".
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hobbymusician
