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Musicians vs. RIAA At USA Today
An anonymous reader writes "USA Today has an article about the growing friction between recording artists and the 5 major labels which make up the RIAA. Many issues are covered, including copyright reform, fraudulent accounting on the part of record labels, and how selling a quarter million albums can leave you owing your label $14,000."
Non-musicians, like Brittany Spears, are the ones selling millions of records to people NOT like us.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Michael Jackson's recent high-profile leap onto the bandwagon was met with skepticism. In rallying support for his financial grievances against Sony Music, he asserted, "If you fight for me, you're fighting for all black people."
Sorry, I may have missed something. Why the link between Michael Jackson and black people?
Cool that he didn't bother giving you the time of day
"We're on the threshold of a whole new system," says Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. "The time where accountants decide what music people hear is coming to an end. Accountants may be good at numbers, but they have terrible taste in music. I don't know how I'm going to get paid, but I'd rather go out into the brave new world than live with dinosaurs that are far too big for their boots."
Someone UNDERSTOOD something Richards SAID!?
He talks like Prince writes.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I'd rather go out into the brave new world than live with dinosaurs that are far too big for their boots.
Anyone else get a laugh out of the fact that Keith Richards is derisively calling anyone a dinosaur ??
Well duh! Hello! They're performers, they're supposed to be vocal, or instrumental or something. I bet the writer was saving that one up for years.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
...the nasdaq lost 5% today after the merger between Brittney Spears (BOOB | -19.5%) and Justin Timberlake (NSUK | +2.3%) suddenly came to an end, with Justin now in talks for a future merger with Janet Jackson (VOLD | -4.6%) while it appears Brittney will attempt to go on her own...
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"In the past 20 years, an industry that was led by visionaries and music lovers has become dominated by accountants, financial analysts and people who can't think ahead more than 90 days."
Sounds a lot like the software industry
"Artists know record companies are giving blood, sweat and millions of dollars to help them realize their dreams."
Hillary Rosen was just tugging at my heart strings with this quote. I mean, who knew that the record publishing houses were really just there to work for the artist and to pour millions of dollars into making records just so one poor little musician could recognize their dream!
Sounds like the makings of a classic country song!
It's "Imma bussa cap in yo ass!"
Anyone else get Jar-Jar flashbacks when they read this?
Is this the promised end? Or image of that horror? KING LEAR
...or continuing to live on Friskies and ramen casserole...
Ramen Cassarole? I know it's offtopic, but have a recipe you could throw my way? Google's suggestions seem eclectic at best.
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