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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. Re:New name by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a joke. Lighten up. And, it is not like Al is poor. He probably has 5 BMW's, 2 yahts and tons of hot babes. It is a bit hard to feel sorry for somebody like that.

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  2. Re:Still getting the raw end of the deal? by Eivind+Eklund · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up.

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  3. Re:Still getting the raw end of the deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For good or for ill, George Bush has come to stand for the USA in many people's minds. Call it the flexibility of language or the laziness of human mind, but when someone says George Bush, I don't just think of Guantanamo Bay, I think of the cartel.