Money in the Music Business

paulbd writes: "Electronic Musician has a good article on the economics of selling music on CDs. Its a sobering read that gives some of the hard numbers that do a little to counter the sense of record companies being vultures. Recommended for anyone who seriously imagines making a living from selling music."

Comments

Mirrors.

[Anonymous Coward]

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FP

[Pen1s Goat Guy]

Fourth or Fifth Poast.

Mmm, so what's next?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, yes, VA Music, hope they turn a profit this time.

6th post

[Anonymous Coward]

elite eh?

If thats bad, then Microsoft is just pure evil

[t_allardyce]

Microsoft take the whole cut as theres no middle-man. Not only that, but they sell for $100 per unit and more. Their production costs can't be that high, and their idea of not printing manuals must save them a bit of cash. Not only that, but they can sell site licences aswell. And most people pay them for windows with out even realising it. If they were a record company, they would have about 10 artists, all of them super-stars (crappy boy-bands mostly). There would only be about 2 other record companies in the world. There would be stores dominated by rows of Microsoft label CDs selling for $100 a go.

Let me get this straight...

[Anonymous Coward]

The new Linux development kernel 2.5.0 has been released and you guys are talking about money and music! GET SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE!

This Guy Is A TROLL!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Please mod him down.. look at his posting history. don't bite on his trollbait please.

Re:Business is business

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus Christ, did you have this post ready whenever an article on the music biz is up on slashdot? Your post does not even address the issue here, you are blatantly trying to karma whore.

Fuck off bitch. Mods, mark this -1 Offtopic, Troll.

where?

[Anonymous Coward]

I just looked at it and there were no trolls in his history. Can you please point a few of them out?

Re:where?

[Anonymous Coward]

C# vs. Java, that one was classic. There were a bunch of replies that pointed out the ton of bullshit in his post.

How about Hurd in Production? Another troll the retarded moderators fell for.

Re:Business is business

[Anonymous Coward]

So you think it was actually Ford that made the Corvair?!? :-)

Nice touch, Mr. Troll.

MODERATORS are obviously still asleap

[Anonymous Coward]

the parent is as off-topic as you can get.

Re:Insane recoding budgets == pimping the Artists

[The_Great_Satan]

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Re:Grrrrrr. Filters, and why my post is a link.

[Catbeller]

Wow. Fix it, take the time. Post it here. Pretty damned good.