Re:The artists are still rich. (Score 1)

good call... but what is even more amusing is these local die hard musicians, who are simply mad for travel, flaming on the live band tour thing, just jumping on the road constantly, and making a good amount of money for their effort, which after all is how it should be, but astonishingly during their quote unquote 'down time' they will take a huge "loan" from their rediculous notion for a distribution system/label; something like $10,000 to throw down on a mere week of recording in a professional studio, only to turn around to throw maybe another $10,000 to $20,000, all which is fronted, for the burned CD package, which then is used as a tool of extortion by charging an exhorbatant rate for something, which really in the end is a rather loud statement of their own self-obsessed involvement..which to continue, must be sold in a big enough quantity to recoup the loan extolled in the first place, and only after that, may the artist themselves actually make some money on the whole damn corrup deal, makes one think of the scripted statement Courtney Love read, leans heavily on how crap label systems are... so if artist feel they aren't making enough which is 'bull' they should not take so much money to record, after all if this is what my friends local bands are doing just think of major label fools and their costs... and further in an attempt to conclude this rant... they honestly feel that they are owed so much from people and society in general...their artists get over it, you didn't get your 'creativeness', in a vacuum, you can't claim copyright and intellectual property rights on that which, flows free naturally...