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How iTunes Hurts Weird Al
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?"
i love weird al and this makes me angry as hell. its a good thing i don't use itunes since i think it sucks. i buy a cd then rip it to whatever format i need.
I think Wierd Al's "music" is screwing him more than the record labels.
What a load of shit. If people don't like the price they can go without. That's your system is it? How about competition? If the record companies were required to license their songs to multiple manufacturers and you had a choice between which of them you bought the CD from you don't think the prices would be lower?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Well, that has very little to do with iTunes and very much to do with the contract he signed with his record label. There are 65c there for the taking. If he's getting 9c, it's really his own dumb fault. I appreciate that he probably has some kind of "standard recording contract", but just because the standard is to rip off artists and burden them with debt doesn't mean he should have signed it.