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How iTunes Hurts Weird Al

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eat-it dept.

Johnny X writes "Weird Al Yankovic recently said he makes far less money when you buy from iTunes than when you buy an actual CD. This guy did the math and showed that Weird Al could be losing up to 85% of his record sales income due to the 'weird' ways the record companies compute digital sales. Are all artists getting the shaft like this?"

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  1. Quit crying by redballs240 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Weird Al should probably be thankful that itunes contributes any money to him. He's washed up. I never bought a whole cd of his when i turned old enough to earn the rank of double digits and im not going to start now. Instead i recorded his music off the radio with a blank tape. Now, if there is any songs that I like of his, mainly 1 or 2 seeing as they became so corny after completing the 4th grade, then i would use itunes to get them. He should just suck it up and quit crying that he's losing money, when in all actuality he's lucky he's making any money at all.