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The Rolling Stones' Business Model

Posted by michael on from the gathering-no-moss dept.

reallocate writes "These pages were graced a few days ago by a piece that included comments on the future of the music business from the Stones' Keith Richards. Now, here's a detailed Fortune report on the business side of the Stones -- Keith and Mick seem to know what they're doing and may not be all that concerned about the future -- the Stones have ground out $1.5 billion (yes, that's a 'b') in gross revenue since 1989."

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  1. Alright, where's the Stones MS Bashing by JasonUCF · · Score: 4, Funny

    SOMEBODY out there in /. land has to have a logical correlation rant on how the Stones are evil because they came into all their new billions by becoming Microsoft's little bitch for the 'Start' me up campaign.

    1. Re:Alright, where's the Stones MS Bashing by odaiwai · · Score: 5, Funny

      On the contrary, they clearly associated the phrase: "it makes a grown man cry" with Windows 95 even before it was launched. I'd say that makes them proper slashdot linux zealots.

      dave