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Apple Wooing Smaller Labels

Posted by pudge on Tuesday June 3, 2003 @10:58PM from the yo-slashdot-raps dept.

kalel666 writes "Apple has a big event planned for Thursday in Cupertino with hundreds of representatives from smaller indie music labels."

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Re:Death to Big Labels by IamTheRealMike · 2003-06-03 23:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Done properly, this kind of move by Apple could eventually kill the big record labels by removing their need to exist.
What, and replacing them with big computer corps instead? That's a top idea.
Bands could get their product to market without the absurd overhead imposed upon them by the big labels. You all know the scam -- the big label "advances" the band a seductively huge blob of cash, then leeches it all back in fees and charges, to where the band become their indentured servants.
What makes you think bands won't want advertising, support, a salary and all the other things that record labels provide them? Apples place in this only replaces the overhead of your local music store with the overhead of subsidising Apples platform-world-domination fantasies. It's good for convenience, but don't kid yourself that this means a change of the system.