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Interesting Admissions From Record Industry
way2trivial writes "Many in the Slashdot community say the reason music sales are off is the content. It appears the industry and some music producers agree. In todays NYTimes magazine there is an article that says the quality of todays music is the problem. I have an issue with one part however, it reads "...and the once lucrative album market has been overshadowed by downloaded singles, which mainly benefits Apple" and here I thought Apple made most of their money with their hardware sales and a pittance on each track, giving the majority to the producer."
I'd rather get 1% of 1 million sales by brokering my art form through a huge record label than try to make that much money through my own direct sales. Face it, artists make more money by letting the BIG labels sell their image and music for them, because more people discover their music then if they were to try to sell it directly to people they meet at performances.