riaa stuff (Score 1)

i can see where y'all are up and arms about all of this, but as a songwriter ya gotta see our perspective. we need to get paid for our work, labels need to get paid to distribute the work etc, cuz life in these united states costs money!! if people no longer get paid music gets a lot harder to do. i work as a techie as well (for now) and hope to get paid in the music biz so i don't have to live like an insane maniac working gazillions of hours all the time with day gig/ night gig. if i choose to post somehting free as an mp3 that's my choice (which i will do with some stuff), but i still want to live off my work (or some of it). and from the label perspective, the music biz is not an easy business to make $ in. there's a lot of competition, they lose lots of money on most records and only make money on a few, so this is serious. i'm all for distributing my stuff w/out a label, but how can i get everyone to pay for it (whether it's me or metallica)? these are years of work for many folks, please don't forget that. and a lot of the groups that people think are really rich or somehting just cuz they have some publicity really aren't. a lot of people gotta get paid off of that cd (although i could do without haveing to spend the portion that is due to printing up cd's and sending them around the country as well). don't kill the goose!!!!